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A snapshot of major stock and commodities market indicators Monday: New York Stock Exchange 1,723 advances, 1,325 declines Most Active: Bk of Amer 13.51 +0.08 Comp Sales: 3,206,565,560 Arca Comp Sales: 840,124,161 Nasdaq Stock Market 1,360 advances, 1,120 declines Most Active: Cisco Sys 23.945 —0.295 Nasdaq Sales: 1,689,274,989 Major Indexes ...
Gold breaks a losing streak; other metals rise
The price of gold rose Monday for the first time in nearly two weeks. Gold for June delivery rose $19.40 to settle at $1,384.10 an ounce Monday, an increase of 1.4 percent. It was the first gain since May 8. The price of gold has been falling since last autumn. ...
Gold breaks a losing streak; other metals rise
The price of gold rose Monday for the first time in nearly two weeks. Gold for June delivery rose $19.40 to settle at $1,384.10 an ounce Monday, an increase of 1.4 percent. It was the first gain since May 8. The price of gold has been falling since last autumn. ...
Number of people sickened by raw cheese up to 25
Minnesota health officials say more than two-dozen people have been sickened by eating raw Mexican-style cheese. The Minnesota Department of Health said Monday at least 25 Minnesotans became sick with salmonella linked to eating queso fresco made with unpasteurized cheese. The state health department, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and ...
Drought accelerates use of drugs to beef up cattle
Cattle feeders in the U.S. are coping with reduced herds and high corn costs in part by increasing their use of growth-inducing drugs designed to bulk up animals, get more pounds of beef from each carcass and circumvent the drought's withering effects on the food cycle. Accelerated use of the ...
Walmart pushing for more Ark. product makers
With labor and energy costs on the rise in Asia, Walmart highlighted an effort to promote domestic goods on Monday, including products made by more than 40 Arkansas suppliers. Bentonville-based Walmart is encouraging customers to buy items made in the United States. In the company's home state, the effort includes ...
4 ND cases tied to multistate salmonella outbreak
North Dakota officials have linked four cases of salmonella infection to a multistate outbreak associated with baby chicks. North Dakota's cases all were found in children under the age of 10, state Health Department epidemiologist Alicia Lepp said Monday. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating the ...
PERSONAL HEALTH: MANY FRONTS IN THE OBESITY WAR
c.2013 New York Times News Service Sugar, and especially the high-fructose corn syrup that sweetens many processed foods and nearly all soft drinks, has been justly demonized for adding nutritionally empty calories to our diet and causing metabolic disruptions linked to a variety of diseases. But a closer look at ...
More centers in DC area speak seniors' language
If Mohammad Rahro, 91, had gone to just any senior center in Maryland, chances are he would not have encountered someone who remembered the headmaster with four wives who rode to school each day on a beloved white donkey. Instead, on his first day at the Loving Care Adult Medical ...
Maker of 'pink slime' continues to struggle
The beef-processing company that makes the product that critics call "pink slime" continues to struggle more than a year after the initial stories on the lean bits of beef that Beef Products Inc. makes. The Sioux City Journal reports (http://bit.ly/15YXsIh ) the Dakota Dunes, S.D.-based company lost 80 percent of ...
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