http://www.whas11.com/news/business RSS Feed for WHAS - News - Business en-us Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:06:53 GMT 2012-02-12T04:06:53Z en-us http://www.whas11.com/news/business/Found-of-Louisvilles-Republic-Bank-dies-139133879.html Bernard Trager, the man behind one of Louisville’s most successful business stories died Friday afternoon at the age of 83-years-old. Trager founded Republic in 1982. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:39:52 GMT http://www.whas11.com/news/business/Found-of-Louisvilles-Republic-Bank-dies-139133879.html 2012-02-11T03:39:52Z http://www.whas11.com/news/business/111944184.html Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:48:59 GMT http://www.whas11.com/news/business/111944184.html 2010-12-15T19:48:59Z http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139157164.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is focusing on re-election themes such as jobs and public works projects in President Barack Obama's new budget blueprint while relying on familiar but never enacted tax increases on the wealthy and corporations to reduce future deficits after four years of trillion dollar-plus shortfalls. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:06:53 GMT http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139157164.html 2012-02-12T04:06:53Z http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139155934.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's new budget proposal will ask Congress to devote millions of dollars for a new trade enforcement center and more U.S. inspectors in China as the administration takes aim at unfair trade practices abroad, a senior administration official said Saturday. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:02:39 GMT http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139155934.html 2012-02-12T00:02:39Z http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139152449.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Why would Greece accept more pain when unemployment is at 21 percent, the economy is enduring its fifth year of recession and rioters are hurling gasoline bombs in the streets of Athens? Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:02:46 GMT http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139152449.html 2012-02-11T20:02:46Z http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139152439.html NEW YORK (AP) — As the glow fades from the Giants' Super Bowl win, some New York sports fans are focusing on basketball and hockey. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:02:06 GMT http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139152439.html 2012-02-11T20:02:06Z http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139135664.html LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Officials say Bernard Trager, the founder and chairman of Republic Bancorp Inc., has died. He was 83. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:00:34 GMT http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139135664.html 2012-02-11T20:00:34Z http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139124674.html NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department is calling Switzerland's largest private bank a fugitive from justice after it didn't show up for a court hearing in New York. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:00:33 GMT http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139124674.html 2012-02-11T20:00:33Z http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139090594.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for birth control for workers, scrambling to end a furor raging from the Catholic Church to Congress to his re-election foes. He demanded that insurance companies step in to provide the coverage instead. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:01:54 GMT http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139090594.html 2012-02-11T19:01:54Z http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139135709.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An Illinois man was sentenced Friday by a federal judge in Rhode Island to more than three years in prison for shipping unwanted penis enlargers to diabetes patients as part of a larger fraud scheme that prosecutors say bilked $2.2 million from Medicare over four years. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:01:17 GMT http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139135709.html 2012-02-11T03:01:17Z