http://www.whas11.com/news/business RSS Feed for WHAS - News - Business en-us Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:02:57 GMT 2010-03-20T14:02:57Z en-us http://www.whas11.com/news/business/Local-businesses-worry-about-the-rising-cost-of-healthcare-benefits-87855397.html Many small business owners say the skyrocketing costs of health insurance are putting them out of business and that the current legislation in Washington does nothing to curb costs. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:53:54 GMT http://www.whas11.com/news/business/Local-businesses-worry-about-the-rising-cost-of-healthcare-benefits-87855397.html 2010-03-16T21:53:54Z http://www.whas11.com/news/business/88719712.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. needs major changes to its financial system so consumers are better protected, banks fortified and the economy safeguarded from sliding into another Depression, President Barack Obama said Saturday. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:02:57 GMT http://www.whas11.com/news/business/88719712.html 2010-03-20T14:02:57Z http://www.whas11.com/news/business/88715702.html WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Police say they have made an arrest in the case of a racial comment being made over the public-address system at a Walmart store in southern New Jersey. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:00:50 GMT http://www.whas11.com/news/business/88715702.html 2010-03-20T13:00:50Z http://www.whas11.com/news/business/88696657.html FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A convicted embezzler who snagged more than $9 million in business tax credits from the state of Michigan has been charged with defrauding an elderly neighbor. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:00:54 GMT http://www.whas11.com/news/business/88696657.html 2010-03-20T06:00:54Z http://www.whas11.com/news/business/88640167.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A key senator has agreed with the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to change new Senate legislation to ensure an end to the "too-big-to-fail" approach that brought the government rushing in to bail out big banks in the financial crisis. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:00:53 GMT http://www.whas11.com/news/business/88640167.html 2010-03-20T06:00:53Z http://www.whas11.com/news/business/88664072.html NEW YORK (AP) — A Lehman Brothers whistleblower warned his bosses that accounting gimmicks the bank used before its collapse may have been illegal, his lawyer said Friday. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:00:50 GMT http://www.whas11.com/news/business/88664072.html 2010-03-20T06:00:50Z http://www.whas11.com/news/business/88696667.html CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada's mining industry has lost an early legal bid to keep Nevadans from voting on a ballot measure that would dramatically increase mining taxes in the richest gold mining state in the nation. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:01:02 GMT http://www.whas11.com/news/business/88696667.html 2010-03-20T01:01:02Z http://www.whas11.com/news/business/88696672.html DOVER, Del. (AP) — DuPont Co. chairman and chief executive officer Ellen Kullman received compensation valued at $8.3 million last year, more than double what she received a year earlier, according to an Associated Press analysis of a regulatory filing Friday. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:01:25 GMT http://www.whas11.com/news/business/88696672.html 2010-03-20T00:01:25Z http://www.whas11.com/news/business/88692822.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional budget scorekeepers say a Medicare fix that Democrats included in earlier versions of their health care bill would push it into the red. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:01:12 GMT http://www.whas11.com/news/business/88692822.html 2010-03-19T23:01:12Z http://www.whas11.com/news/business/88692817.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd is asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the circumstances that led to the spectacular collapse of Lehman Brothers. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:01:11 GMT http://www.whas11.com/news/business/88692817.html 2010-03-19T23:01:11Z