Posted Sunday November 2, 2008, 5:33 am, Over one day old
The food line that stretches from the doors of Glide Foundation each morning has extended deeper into the heart of the Tenderloin throughout the year. The chronically homeless stand alongside the newly desperate, people whose take-home pay didn't last, who...
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Posted Sunday November 2, 2008, 5:33 am, Over one day old
Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. posted a quarterly net loss Thursday and said it is laying off 6 percent of its workforce to cut costs as it heads into the most lucrative season for the games industry. Higher development and marketing costs led to...
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Posted Sunday November 2, 2008, 5:33 am, Over one day old
Sun Microsystems Inc. posted a $1.7 billion loss for its latest quarter Thursday as the maker of servers and business software wrote down the value of the company because of the slow economy and a huge decline in its stock price. Even excluding the goodwill...
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Posted Sunday November 2, 2008, 5:33 am, Over one day old
With defaults on credit card debt spiraling amid a global financial downturn, banks already reeling from the mortgage crisis are losing billions more from unpaid credit card bills. Big banks have formed an unusual alliance with consumer advocates to urge the...
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Posted Sunday November 2, 2008, 5:33 am, Over one day old
T.J. Maxx plans to open store in S.F. on Sunday We're in a recession, consumers aren't spending and Mervyns starts its liquidation sale today. What better time for T.J. Maxx to open a store nearly the size of a city block in San Francisco? Crammed to the...
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Posted Sunday November 2, 2008, 5:33 am, Over one day old
Commercial paper rises - first time since Lehman fell The market for the short-term debt known as commercial paper grew last week - a good sign for companies worried about having to refinance at the end of the year, when investors are loath to take on risk....
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Posted Sunday November 2, 2008, 5:33 am, Over one day old
Wall Street showed some welcome signs of stability Thursday, taking a downbeat gross domestic product report in stride and driving the Dow Jones industrial average up nearly 190 points in relatively calm trading. Even the final half hour of the session,...
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Posted Sunday November 2, 2008, 5:33 am, Over one day old
Another quarter and another record U.S. profit for Exxon Mobil. Yet even as earnings surged for major producers, there were signs that Big Oil's run may be coming to an end. Need proof? Shares of Exxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company,...
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Posted Sunday November 2, 2008, 5:33 am, Over one day old
Four former human-resources managers at Dell Inc. are suing the computer company, accusing it of widespread gender and age discrimination. Lawyers for the women filed the lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco, asking a judge to turn it into a...
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Posted Sunday November 2, 2008, 5:33 am, Over one day old
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