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Financeen-usSat, 19 Jul 2008 00:17:57 Etc/GMThttp://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/fi/pr/40197.gifhttp://finance.yahoo.com14417http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080718/freddie_mac_capital.html?.v=15Mortgage financier Freddie Mac took a step toward issuing common and preferred stock to help bolster its balance sheet Friday when the Securities and Exchange Commission accepted its registration statement filed earlier in the day.yahoo_finance/562078282Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:17:57 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/080718/tech.html?.v=1Google paid a price for what an analyst called a failure to communicate.yahoo_finance/2698016569Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:14:21 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080718/wellcare_health_plans_personnel.html?.v=2WellCare Health Plans Inc., which provides managed care services for government-sponsored health care programs, has named Thomas L. Tran as chief financial officer, effective Monday.yahoo_finance/4288586976Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:05:00 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080718/20080718005767.html?.v=1AUSTIN, Texas----Fitch Ratings assigns a rating of 'AAA' to Dallas County Community College District , Texas' $220 million limited general obligation bonds, series 2008. In addition, Fitch affirms the 'AAA' rating on the approximately $30 million in maintenance tax notes and $63 million in outstanding parity bonds.yahoo_finance/190778164Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:56:00 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/080718/econbrief.html?.v=1Stern: Can't wait to hike rates. "We can't wait until we clearly observe the financial markets at normal, the economy growing robustly and so...yahoo_finance/884542830Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:50:27 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080718/20080718005762.html?.v=1NEW YORK----Fitch Ratings has confirmed its underlying 'AA' rating to the Indiana Finance Authority's conversion of $71,250,000 facilities revenue refunding bonds, series 2003C and 2003D to term-rate period from auction-rate securities.yahoo_finance/60473445Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:28:00 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080718/20080718005759.html?.v=1NEW YORK----Fitch Ratings assigns a rating of 'AA/F1+' to $55,000,000 Indiana Finance Authority , lease appropriation bonds , series 2008 A. Fitch also affirms at 'AA' approximately $3 billion of Indiana's appropriation debt.yahoo_finance/4050426139Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:22:00 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080718/20080718005755.html?.v=1HOUSTON----The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Nebraska and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, straight-line winds, and flooding on June 27, 2008.yahoo_finance/641136863Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:05:00 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080718/flight_diverted.html?.v=1The FBI says an American Airlines flight on its way from Boston to Los Angeles was diverted to Oklahoma City after a passenger stripped nude, got dressed and then tried to open an emergency exit door.yahoo_finance/1363728389Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:58:37 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/080718/industry.html?.v=1In some parts of the world, the construction boom is alive and well.yahoo_finance/646013835Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:57:19 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080718/the_week_ahead.html?.v=1Major business events and economic events scheduled for the coming week : MONDAY, July 21 WASHINGTON -- Treasury bill auction.yahoo_finance/970017887Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:45:02 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080718/alliant_techsystem_army_contract.html?.v=1Alliant Techsystems Inc. recently received a $7.6 million contract from the Army to produce the M1028 canister cartridge for the Abrams tank, the Defense Department said late Friday.yahoo_finance/2127448135Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:37:48 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080718/bonds.html?.v=2Treasury prices declined for a third straight session Friday after Citigroup Inc.'s second-quarter report eased investor concern about credit market turmoil.yahoo_finance/3172904530Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:36:48 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080718/wall_street.html?.v=59Wall Street closed out an impressive week with a mixed performance Friday after disappointing high-tech earnings punctured some of investors' enthusiasm over better-than-expected bank earnings reports.yahoo_finance/995869518Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:34:45 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080718/northrop_grumman_air_force_contract.html?.v=1Northrop Grumman Corp. on Friday received a $5.6 million contract boost from the Air Force to provide communications upgrades for the Global Hawk unmanned aerial system, the Pentagon said late Friday.yahoo_finance/2241944939Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:22:50 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080718/commodities_review.html?.v=3Platinum prices fell to a five-month low Friday as a sagging U.S. economy and a push to build smaller cars prompt automakers to buy less of the metal used in catalytic converters.yahoo_finance/1745262509Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:21:14 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080718/20080718005656.html?.v=1NEW YORK----The Trustees of Mesabi Trust declared a distribution of one dollar per Unit of Beneficial Interest payable on August 20, 2008 to Mesabi Trust unitholders of record at the close of business on July 30, 2008.yahoo_finance/184474069Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:15:00 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080718/20080718005720.html?.v=1NEW YORK----DWS Global Commodities Stock Fund, Inc. announced today that, in accordance with its tender offer for up to 5% of its issued and outstanding shares of common stock, which expired on July 14, 2008, the Fund has accepted, after adjusting for fractional shares in accordance with the terms of the offer, 1,004,832 properly tendered shares at a price per share equal to 98% of the net asset value as of the close of the regular trading session on the New York Stock Exchange on July 15, 2008.yahoo_finance/3780065999Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:50:00 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/080718/calpers_loss.html?.v=3Calpers, the biggest U.S. pension fund, posted a 2.4 percent loss in its June-ended fiscal year, fueled by a 10.7 percent decline in the value of its stock holdings, its top investment officer said on Friday.yahoo_finance/2826070266Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:28:21 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080718/ia_iowa_flooding_culver.html?.v=1Flood recovery efforts won't force the state to pare back expensive long-range programs to improve education and help the state's alternative energy industry, Gov. Chet Culver said Friday.yahoo_finance/1880311895Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:46:56 Etc/GMT