Below please find daily updates pertaining to the latest in financial, business, and tax news:
Developers propose redesign of Cambridge court
Posted: Tue Feb 07 10:19:35 PST 2012Seven commercial real estate firms have filed competing plans with the state to redevelop the 22-story Edward J. Sullivan Courthouse. Among the teams that met the deadline yesterday include Amerimar Acquisition, Boston Properties, The Congress Group, The Gutierrez Co., The HYM Investmemnt Group LLC, Leggat McCall Properties and Trinity Financial. HYM Investment Group is proposing to remove th...
Seasons 52 at Summit gets preliminary OK for $200K incentive
Posted: Tue Feb 07 10:17:25 PST 2012GMRI Inc., which operates restaurant Seasons 52, won preliminary approval Monday for $200,000 in Birmingham incentives for a new location at The Summit. The Birmingham Economic Development Committee Chairwoman Lashunda Scales said her committee approved the request to give GMRI sales tax breaks over a five-year period. The item will now go to the Budget and Finance Committee, which is the next...
Slide show: Milt Priggee's January cartoons
Posted: Tue Feb 07 10:16:59 PST 2012Puget Sound Business Journal editorial cartoonist Milt Priggee kept busy with his visual commentary this January. Click on the cartoon above right for the slide show. Here are some highlights: The state Legislature opened a new session in Olympia, with legislators' top priority being the state's $1 billion budget shortfall. Supporters of an initiative to legalize marijuana in Washington stat...
Trustaff opens Indianapolis office
Posted: Tue Feb 07 10:14:06 PST 2012Staffing firm Trustaff has expanded its Indianapolis operations by opening its fourth office in the city. The new location will provide staffing services for logistics, warehouse, clerical, administrative, and general labor positions, according to a press release. The office will be managed by Linda Rose. Cincinnati-based Trustaff recently opened an office in Louisville, and it plans to conti...
Fleishman-Hillard on list of Top 50 Cos. for Executive Women
Posted: Tue Feb 07 10:12:47 PST 2012St. Louis-based public relations giant Fleishman-Hillard Inc. secured a spot on the National Association for Female Executives 2012 list of the ?Top 50 Companies for Executive Women,? which was recently released. It was the third consecutive year the firm was named to the list. The following Fleishman-Hillard statistics led to the firm being included on the list: · 65 percent of the employee...
Arnall Golden Gregory opens Miami office
Posted: Tue Feb 07 10:11:33 PST 2012Arnall Golden Gregory LLP opened a global logistics and transportation practice in Miami. The office is the Atlanta-based law firm?s third. The Miami office will be led by Andrew R. Spector, a litigator formerly with Hyman, Spector & Mars in Miami. Spector has 25 years of experience working with global logistics clients. Joining Spector will be three experienced logistics attorneys Marc A. R...
Release of Parkland report under federal review
Posted: Tue Feb 07 10:08:50 PST 2012Federal Freedom of Information lawyers are reviewing a safety consultant's report on Parkland Hospital to determine whether and when it should be made publicly available. The report by New York-based Alvarez & Marsal Healthcare Industry Group is under review by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Freedom of Information Group office in Baltimore, Md., CMS's regional office said to...
Analyst downgrades First Financial stock
Posted: Tue Feb 07 10:08:16 PST 2012Maybe First Financial Bancorp?s stock really has peaked. At least that?s the opinion of RBC Capital Markets analyst Jon Arfstrom. He lowered his rating on the downtown-based bank?s stock Monday from ?outperform? to ?sector perform.? Arfstrom kept his price target of $19 on the shares. That indicates that his downgrade relates to First Financial?s stock price, which has been rocking lately. It...
Radius Health files for $86 million IPO
Posted: Tue Feb 07 10:00:27 PST 2012Radius Health, a Cambridge biotech that has raised at least $198 million in financing, on Monday filed to go public in an offering that could raise up to $86.2 million. The filing follows the completed IPO of another Cambridge biotech, Verastem, last month. Led by CEO Michael S. Wyzga, former CFO of Genzyme, Radius is developing new treatments for osteoporosis and other women's health conditio...
SLIDESHOW: Washington University No. 7 best value private college
Posted: Tue Feb 07 09:59:22 PST 2012When it comes down to it, going to college is all about the numbers. Sure a college athletic program or a school?s Greek system can bring prospective students to campus, but in the end you?ve got to pay the bills ? or in this case pay tuition. With that in mind, The Princeton Review released its annual list of best value schools for public and private colleges. Turns out, St. Louis? Washingto...
The 1 Tech Stock to Buy Now
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3 Questions for Sirius XM
Posted: Tue Feb 07 10:25:33 PST 2012The satellite radio giant gears up for its quarterly report. ...
Dipping Profits Shouldn't Keep You Away From This Stock
Posted: Tue Feb 07 10:24:30 PST 2012Dupont remains a strong play despite lower fourth-quarter profit. ...
CEO Smackdown: Southwest vs. Wynn
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Should You Avoid This Industry?
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2 Reasons This Industry Is Booming
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Colfax Shares Plunged Temporarily: What You Need to Know
Posted: Tue Feb 07 10:15:45 PST 2012Is this meaningful or just another movement? ...
Veeco Instruments Beats Estimates but Has a Big Earnings Drop
Posted: Tue Feb 07 09:59:53 PST 2012Just the facts, Fool. ...
Profiting From the Latest in Natural Gas
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DuPont: Dividend Dynamo or the Next Blowup?
Posted: Tue Feb 07 09:57:49 PST 2012What the numbers tell us. ...
