Teenagers in suburban Dayton, Ohio, are heading to community colleges after manufacturing plants closed. ...

Democrats said they had found ways to pare the cost of the bill by more than a third while still covering nearly all Americans. ...

1 EUR buys 1.4096 US dollar (USD) - The reference exchange rates are published both by electronic market information providers and on the ECB’s website shortly after the concertation procedure has been completed. Reference rates are published according to the same calendar as the TARGET system. ...

Well, we planned — and delayed — it for a long time, but now it’s reality (whatever reality means). Our great intern David Brunnthaler (clap, clap!) helped us setting up a new (RSS) calendar feature for the German and English monochrom site. Check it out. Link / Site Link / English RSS (By the way, RIP Michael “Foucault̶...

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Below is a recap of the top news items from this week on Wall Street: 1. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke spent Thursday infront of an uneasy panel of congressional leaders who grilled him on his involvement in Bank of America’s (NYSE: BAC) acquisition of Merrill Lynch. This week’s testimony follows Ken Lewis’ testimony earlier this mont...

The Trading Radar highlights key earnings and economic announcements for tomorrow’s trading session: Intraday or Not Specified: Earnings: H&R Block (NYSE: HRB) - consensus EPS $2.05 After Market Closes: Earnings: Apollo Group (Nasdaq: APOL) - consensus EPS $1.12 Subscribe to EasyStockAlerts and get real-time e-mail alerts when news hits y...

Design Within Reach, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWRI) 40.6% LOWER; has notified the NASDAQ Stock Market of its intent to delist its common stock from the NASDAQ Global Market. The Company currently anticipates that on July 6, 2009 it will file with the Securities and Exchange Commission and NASDAQ a Form 25 relating to the delisting of its common stock. NCI Bui...

UPGRADES: Wachovia upgrades Illinois Tool Works (NYSE: ITW) from Market Perform to Outperform. Valuation range: $45 to $48. Click here for more color on the upgrade. UBS upgrades Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB) from Neutral to Buy. Barclays upgrades Anglo American (Nasdaq: AAUK) from Equalweight to Overweight. For daily real-time Upgrades go to http://w...

American Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMSWA) has extended the expiration date of its tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of Logility, Inc. (Nasdaq: LGTY) not currently owned by American Software. The offer, which was scheduled to expire at Midnight New York City time, on Thursday, June 25, 2009, has been extended until Midnight ...