A6 •The World • Saturday,February 15,2014
Stocks Fri.’s closing New York Stock Exchange selected prices: Stock Last Chg AT&T Inc 33.15 — .34 Alcoa 11.37 — .03 Altria 35.57 + .29 AEP 50.11 + .41 AmIntlGrp 48.98 — .61 ApldIndlT 49.45 — .01 Avon 14.55 — .05 BP PLC 48.81 + .36 BakrHu 59.68 — .09 BkofAm 16.70 — .05 Boeing 130.16 + .66 BrMySq 54.37 + .88 Brunswick 43.31 + .27 Caterpillar 96.55 + .44 Chevron 113.48 + .97 Citigroup 49.52 — .34 CocaCola 38.93 + .28 ColgPalm s 62.68 + .37 ConocoPhil 65.53 + .82 ConEd 55.16 + .64 CurtisWrt 63.80 + .09 Deere 85.84 — .01 Disney 79.23 + 1.33 DowChm 46.71 + .41 DuPont 64.50 + .52 Eaton 72.72 + 1.17
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50.54 94.11 72.93 38.95 15.24 28.24 18.80 106.35 25.74 49.89 53.57 3.47 79.50 30.02 94.61 54.23 183.69 49.18 92.76 162.89 44.03 17.95 33.98 33.22 95.78 175.60 55.44 34.18 92.84
Financial snapshot
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120.28 95.76 25.89 43.94 6.14 78.09 31.94 129.81 79.40 23.96 117.00 93.15 42.52 37.33 132.12 65.30 59.66 19.65 180.14 32.36 27.23 81.81 46.51 23.74 75.79 46.13 30.45 10.72 73.42
+ 1.42 + 3.49 + .34 + .03 + .15 — 1.60 + .24 + .40 + 1.60 + .14 + .55 + .25 + .29 + .49 + 1.98 + .70 + 1.52 + .07 + 1.50 + .03 + .66 + .44 — .80 + .06 + .43 + .15 + .06 — .07 — .40
Friday, Feb. 14, 2014 WEEK’S CLOSE
WEEK AGO
YEAR AGO
0.11%
0.11
0.12
91-day Treasury Bill Yield
0.01%
0.08
0.10
10-year Treasury Bond
2.75%
2.69
2.00
130.66
128.48
Interest rates Average rate paid on banks money-market accounts (Bank Rate Monitor)
Commodities DJ UBS Commodities Indexes
139.20
Stocks Dow Jones Industrial Avg. 16,154.39
15,794.08 13,981.76
S&P 500
1,838.63
1,797.02
1,519.79
Wilshire 5000 Total Market
19,665.77
19,203.91
16,069.37 AP
NORTHWEST STOCKS
Nation Obama: US must rethink NATIONAL water as climate changes D I G E S T
Great Lakes nearly covered with ice
LOS BANOS, Calif. (AP) — Warning that weather-related disasters will only get worse, President Barack Obama said Friday the U.S. must rethink the way it uses water as he announced new federal aid to help droughtstricken California. Obama drew a clear connection between California’s troubles and climate change as he toured part of a farm that will go unsown this year as the state faces its worst drought in more than 100 years. Even if the U.S. takes action now to curb pollution, the planet will keep getting warmer “for a long time to come” thanks to greenhouse gases that have already built up, Obama said. “We’re going to have to stop looking at these disasters as something to wait for. We’re going to have to start looking at these disasters as something to prepare for,” Obama said. After arriving in California
The Associated Press
President Barack Obama walks with Governor Jerry Brown, left and Joe and Maria Del Bosque, right of Empresas Del Bosque farm, addressing California’s drought situation Friday in Los Banos, Calif. Farmers in California’s drought-stricken Central Valley said federal financial assistance does not get to the heart of long-term water problems. on Friday afternoon, Obama met with community leaders at a rural water facility before announcing more than $160 million in federal financial aid, including $100 million in the farm bill he signed into law last week for programs that cover the loss of livestock.
Stock . . . . . . . . . E. Mon. Frontier . . . . . . . . . . . 4.53 Intel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.29 Kroger. . . . . . . . . . . 36.20 Lee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.04 Microsoft . . . . . . . . 36.80 Nike . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.66 NW Natural. . . . . . . 41.09
Fri. 4.68 24.76 37.38 4.07 37.62 75.06 42.39
Safeway. . . . . . . . . . 32.05 33.65 Skywest . . . . . . . . . . 12.25 12.34 Starbucks . . . . . . . . 74.80 75.03 Sterling Fncl. . . . . . 30.53 30.60 Umpqua Bank . . . . . 17.05 17.11 Weyerhaeuser . . . . 30.00 30.46 Xerox . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.40 10.73 Dow Jones closed at 16,154.39 Provided by Coos Bay Edward Jones
The overall package includes smaller amounts to aid in the most extreme drought areas and to help food banks that serve families affected by the water Southwest warmed shortage. Obama also called by record heat on federal facilities in PHOENIX (AP) — With California to limit water much of the Northeast consumption immediately. gripped by snow and ice storms, the Southwest is riding a record heat wave that sent people to beaches and as part of a federal investiga- golf courses in droves Friday. tion into the spill, which People in Phoenix and contaminated the river so Southern California were sunbadly the state has advised ning themselves in 80-degree against prolonged contact weather, with forecasters prewith the water or eating fish. dicting more of the same “I have had no conversa- through the weekend. tions with Duke Energy Both areas are known for about the lawsuits or about warm weather, but the the federal action,” McCrory National Weather Service said. said the temperatures are uncharacteristically hot for this time of year. The heat is the result of a high-pressure system off the coast of Southern California.
Gov. McCrory denies role in coal ash deal
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Week’s action: Monday, Friday closings:
CHEBOYGAN, Mich. (AP) — From the bridge of the Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw, northern Lake Huron looks like a vast, snow-covered field dotted with ice slabs as big as boulders — a battleground for the icebreaker’s 58-member crew during one of the roughest winters in memory. It’s been so bitterly cold for so long in the Upper Midwest that the Great Lakes are almost completely covered with ice. The last time they came this close was in 1994, when 94 percent of the lakes’ surface was frozen. As of Friday, ice cover extended across 88 percent, according to the federal government’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory denied Friday he had any talks with Duke Energy executives or lobbyists about his administration’s scuttled deal to settle environmental violations at two of the $50 billion company’s coal ash dumps for $99,000.
McCrory was asked about the agreement at a public event after his office had not responded to questions from The Associated Press. Federal prosecutors on Monday served the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources and Duke with grand jury subpoenas demanding records
AGs switching sides on gay marriage NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The day after a federal judge struck down Virginia’s gaymarriage ban, state Attorney General Mark Herring wasn’t vowing to appeal or insisting his state’s law was sound. Despite their duty to defend the laws on the books, state attorneys general are increasingly taking an unusually supportive role in the movement to legalize gay marriage across the U.S. Some, like Herring, are refusing to defend their states’ prohibitions against same-sex matrimony.
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Accentuate The Positive Are you old enough to remember a song by Johnny Mercer that said, “you’ve got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don’t mess with Mister In-Between.”? Our nation at the time this song was written had just come out of the great depression and had been engaged in World War II. There was a real need to focus on the positive. There are many in our circle of relationships that find the negative easy to discuss. In our nation we find the country still in massive unemployment, economy is struggling and Washington is severely broken. Thus we are not in short supply of material for negativism. However, all that does is drive our spirits downward. We want to be lifted. Let me suggest you begin to look at the world around you. Even though it goes through a cold depressive Winter, it comes to life in the Spring. When you begin to look at life and recognize that God is the giver of life, there is always something to be thankful for. The sun will come up, flowers will bloom and someone loves you deeply. Therefore, “Accentuate the Positive.” Come worship with us Sunday.
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