Copyright 2009 http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/business en-us Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:50:09 -0500 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:50:09 -0500 NBC Local Integrated Media http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local-beat/UConn-and-Hartford-Hospital-Break-Up-70644822.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:40:31 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*94/112009-uconn-health-center.jpg
The partnership would have helped rescue John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington - but alas, rescue attempts did not work.

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local-beat/Hartford-Courant-Sued-by-Another-Paper-for-Plagiarism-70521472.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:53 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*90/111909-hartford-courant-rsz.jpg
The suit by the Journal Inquirer could send shockwaves through the newspaper industry and the state's media world.

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local-beat/Citibank-to-Increase-Checking-Fees-69817797.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:06:43 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*90/cash_money_generic_640x480.jpg
Citibank will charge its checking account customers who can't maintain a $1500 balance.

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/entertainment/movies/This-Isnt-It-67094527.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:07:27 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*90/102709+This+Is+It.jpg
With movie and huge album sales, Jackson may be worth more in death than life. And that's bad...

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/entertainment/television/Family-Guy-Breaks-Windows-66655962.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:56:40 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*65/031809+family+guy+p1.jpg
Microsoft's pullout as sponsor of raunchy special shows risks of melding comedy with commercials. Call it the Peter (Griffin) Principal…

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/business/Up-Up-and-Away-To-the-Mile-High-City-65546212.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:10:37 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*90/southwest.jpg
Have you been thinking about taking a ski trip to the west later this winter? If so, Southwest Airlines just made it a little easier. Beginning in March the discount airliner will begin non-stop service...

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/business/White_Collar_Criminals.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:25:43 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*90/rajrajaratnam.jpg
White-collar criminals cost the United States more than $300 billion annually according to the FBI. Here are a few more names that may ring an alarm bell...

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/business/Marcus-Schrenker-Faked-Own-Death-Parachuted-Plane-Northwest-Indiana-Times-Exclusive-Jail-Interview-Bi-Polar-63963217.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:03:36 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*90/011409-Marcus-Schrenker-p1.jpg
The Indiana man who parachuted out of a plane to fake his own death speaks from his jail cell.

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/business/Study-More-Mustache--More-Money-63930997.html Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:01:59 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*90/102708-stache-jpg.jpg
A study performed by Quicken and the American Mustache Institute revealed that mustachioed men make more than their bearded and clean-shaven compatriots.

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/business/How-One-Man-Averted-an-Identity-Theft-Epidemic-63927072.html Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:54:57 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*79/shredder.jpg
A San Francisco landlord saddled with sensitive documents did the right thing.

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Hummer, the gas-guzzling, muscular icon of the American road, has been sold to a Chinese heavy equipment manufacturer.

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/business/Citigroup-Unloads-100-Million-Man-Reports-63847342.html Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:38:06 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*90/rsz_citigroup.jpg
Reports have been out that Citigroup was trying to unload a rather successful energy-trading firm after getting heat over a deal to pay the quirky owner a whopping $100 million bonus – after the federal bailout...

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/business/NATL-Senate-Dems-Extend-Unemployment-Benefits-for-14-Weeks-63790937.html Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:44:01 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*80/010609+unemployment.jpg
The number of people filing for unemployment insurance for the first time has dropped to its lowest level since January -- a positive trend that comes as Senate Democrats struck a deal to give workers an...

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/business/Japans-All-Nippon-Airways-Bladder-Flights-63703352.html Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:15:02 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*90/bathroom+generic+getty.jpg
Be sure to hit the facilities before takeoff.

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/business/Sex-Toy-Manufacturer-Sued-for-Stiffing-Workers-jw-63690287.html Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:52:17 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*90/22nd_and_tennessee.jpg
As anyone who's spent much time around the erotic entertainment industry knows, the reality of the business is much less sexy than the general public might imagine.

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/business/NATL-Arab-States-US-Allies-Plot-to-Ditch-Dollar-in-Oil-Sales-Report--63583952.html Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:58:57 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*90/kuwait+oil-640.jpg
Arab states held secret meetings with finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil in a plot to end the pricing of oil in dollars, a move that would likely stoke tensions...

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/Whos-cutting--Whos-hiring-63576547.html Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:00:04 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*90/need_job_unemployment.jpg
Groton's Electric Boat plans to cut 96 carpenter jobs while Whole Foods will hire 200 employees.

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/around-town/shopping/Recessions-Silver-Lining-Low-Low-Prices-63515727.html Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:30:54 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*90/shopsales.jpg
There's a silver lining to the Great Recession: Prices on everything from coffee to cat food are falling to unheard of levels.

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/business/BofA-CEO-Scores-53M-Retirement-Package-63177372.html Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:23:55 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*87/ken+lewis.JPG
Ken Lewis, the embattled CEO of Bank of America Corp., is leaving the company after a year of strife that followed his bank's acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co., but it's not like he's going to be hard up for...

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/business/Recession-Pets-Food-Dish-Suffers-Last-62936907.html Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:04:29 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*90/Dog+Eating+Food+from+Dish.jpg
What's good enough for you isn't for your dog, according to a new study.

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/around-town/cars/NATLGM-Pulling-E-Brake-on-Saturn-Brand-62949207.html Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:12:50 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*68/saturn+man.jpg
General Motors announced Wednesday that it will no longer make Saturn vehicles after a deal to sell the popular brand to Penske Automotive Group Inc. fell apart.

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local-beat/CT-Drivers-React-to-Massive-Toyota-Recall-62772127.html Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:31:05 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*87/toyota_camry.jpg
Safety concerns about removable floor mats prompt Toyota to recall 3.8 million vehicles.

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Is froot the same as fruit? Roy Werbel thought so and now he is mad about it.

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/business/Crackdown-Continues-on-TSAs-Luggage-Looters-62573027.html Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:53:19 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*90/092909+tsa.jpg
Between long delays, the lousy food and the even lousier in-flight movies, airline travel couldn't get much worse, unless you happen to be going through Miami, where TSA workers charged with making our skies...

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local-beat/Maybe-More-Money-Will-Help-62494682.html Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:49:56 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*90/need_job_unemployment.jpg
The federal government is giving Connecticut $5.2 million to upgrade the unemployment system.

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/business/Man-Sues-Bank-of-America-for--61903677.html Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:18:24 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*90/dr+evil+villain.jpg
Infuriated with Bank of America’s customer service, Dalton Chiscolm decided to do what every other red-blooded American in his situation would do: He sued them.

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/business/Politics----A-Very-Different-Beast-Than-Business-61486207.html Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:16:21 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*80/91026250.jpg
Former e-Bay CEO Meg Whitman and ex-Hewlett-Packard chief Carly Fiorina each get early wake-up calls for their initial forays into electoral politics.

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/business/After-Miamis-Ritzy-Bubble-Bursts-Squatters-Move-on-Up-61444367.html Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:36:36 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*90/092509+gables.jpg
A pricey, waterfront Coral Gables home has been taken over by squatters, angry residents say.

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/business/Families-Make-Grave-Decisions-61249357.html Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:10:13 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*90/rsz_grave.jpg
The recession is partly to blame for a spike in the sale of burial plots at cemeteries and funeral-property web sites across the country.

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/business/Now-the-Government-Wants-A-Bailout-From-the-Banks-60267032.html Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:24:36 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*84/sheila+bair+resize.jpg
Here's a switch: After a year of bailing out the banking industry, the federal government may soon be going hat in hand to the nation's lenders.

]]> http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/business/NATL-Obama-Fundraiser-Charged-in-290M-Ponzi-60065562.html Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:41:37 -0500 http://media.nbcconnecticut.com/images/120*90/hassan.jpg
Top Democratic fund-raiser Hassan Nemazee was charged Monday with engineering a $290 million fraud scheme that swindled money from finance juggernauts Bank of America, HSBC and Citigroup, U.S. officials said.

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