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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Business
In a first, women surpass men in degrees
Fr o m s t a f f a n d A P r e p o r t s
LOCAL STOCKS The following quotes on local companies are provided as a service by Smith Barney Citi Group, 112-B Monument Place, 601-636-6914. Archer-Daniels (ADM)..........36.35 American Fin. (AFG) .............34.85 Ameristar (ASCA) ...................19.54 Auto Zone (AZO) ................ 282.07 Bally Technologies (BYI)......38.30 BancorpSouth (BXS).............14.13 Britton Koontz (BKBK) .........12.95 Cracker Barrel (CBRL) ...........50.55 Champion Ent. (CHB).................20 Com. Health Svcs. (CYH) ..........30.73 Computer Sci. Corp. (CSC) ......49.66 Cooper Industries (CBE) .....66.14 CBL and Associates (CBL)..........18.38 CSX Corp. (CSX)......................76.62 East Group Prprties (EGP)........44.80 El Paso Corp. (EP) ..................19.25 Entergy Corp. (ETR) ..............69.16 Fastenal (FAST) .......................66.11
Family Dollar (FDO) ..............52.32 Fred’s (FRED)............................13.78 Int’l Paper (IP) .........................30.18 Janus Capital Group (JNS) ......12.33 J.C. Penney (JCP) ...................38.85 Kroger Stores (KR) .................24.29 Kan. City So. (KSU) ................55.21 Legg Mason (LM) ................ 37.49 Parkway Properties (PKY) ........17.72 PepsiCo Inc. (PEP) .................67.71 Regions Financial (RF) ........... 7.34 Rowan (RDC) ........................... 41.70 Saks Inc. (SKS) ......................... 11.81 Sears Holdings (SHLD) ........ 84.58 Simpson-DuraVent (SSD).......28.03 Sunoco (SUN).......................... 42.60 Trustmark (TRMK) ................. 23.37 Tyco Intn’l (TYC)..................... 49.17 Tyson Foods (TSN) ................ 19.54 Viacom (VIA) ............................ 55.53 Walgreens (WAG) .................. 42.87 Wal-Mart (WMT) .................... 53.91
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SMART MONEY Q: In 1965, I was stationed in Fort Lewis, Wash. I was shipped in August of that year. I had a credit union account at McCord Air Force Base Credit Union. I had a small savings account and before I shipped elsewhere I withdrew all but about $25. After all the time that went by, does the account close and go BRUCE to the state property fund? — B.O., via e-mail A: It’s coming up on 50 years since you returned safely home from Vietnam. After a period of time when there is no activity by the owner of
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the account (you), the credit union, bank or other agencies is obliged to advertise the account on some local vehicle and if it’s not claimed, the money is turned over to an estate. Any interest that has been accrued up until that time also goes to the estate. You can always claim for recovering those funds but the moment the state receives the money, the interest meter is turned off permanently. There is maybe $20-$30 bucks there that you could apply for. You can simply write to the Escheat fund in the state of Washington and ask them if there are funds held in your name. Don’t expect to get rich, but it’s not a bad investment. •
Bruce Williams writes for Newspaper Enterprise Association. E-mail him at bruce@brucewilliams.com.
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, American women have passed men in gaining advanced college degrees as well as bachelor’s degrees, part of a trend that is helping redefine who goes off to work and who stays home with the kids. Census figures released
Tuesday highlight the latest education milestone for women, who began to exceed men in college enrollment in the early 1980s. The findings come amid record shares of women in the workplace and a steady decline in stay-at-home mothers. The educational gains for
women are giving them greater access to a wider range of jobs, contributing to a shift of traditional gender roles at home and work. Based on one demographer’s estimate, the number of stay-at-home dads who are the primary caregivers for their children reached nearly 2 million last year, or
FED MULLS NEXT MOVE
Bernanke to meet press today WASHINGTON (AP) — The door at the notoriously secretive Federal Reserve is opening wider. For the first time in the Fed’s 98-year history, its chairman is to begin holding regular news conferences. For Ben Bernanke, today’s meeting with the press gives him a chance to steer the debate about where hiring, economic growth and inflation are headed in the months ahead. It also helps the chairman cast himself as open and accessible, eager to answer questions. Investors will be looking mainly for clues about when the Fed will reverse course and begin boosting interest rates. When their two-day meeting ends today, before the news conference begins, Bernanke and his colleagues are expected to signal that the Fed’s $600 billion Treasury bond-buying program will end as scheduled in June. The bond-buying program was intended to keep interest rates low, encourage spending and boost growth. But critics say increased spending has raised the risk of high inflation. Since the Fed announced the
When their two-day meeting ends today, before the news conference begins, Ben Bernanke and his colleagues are expected to signal that the Fed’s $600 billion Treasury bond-buying program will end as scheduled in June. economic-support program in November, the economy has improved. Unemployment has fallen to 8.8 percent. And the
private sector over the past two months has embarked on its biggest hiring spree in five years. But a spike in oil and food prices has pushed inflation up. That’s sparked a debate within the Fed about when to start raising rates and take other steps to soak up the money pumped into the economy during the recession. A vocal minority, including the Fed regional chiefs in Philadelphia and Minneapolis, say the Fed may need to raise interest rates by the end of this year to fight inflation. The central bank has kept its benchmark interest rate near zero since December 2008. And Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, argues that the Fed should consider halting the bond-buying program now, not in June. The majority — including Bernanke, vice chairwoman Janet Yellen and William Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York — say interest rates should stay low longer, and the bondbuying program should run its course.
Lehrer pushes more news for PBS, NPR WASHINGTON (AP) — PBS anchor Jim Lehrer told public broadcasters Tuesday that they must continue to defend their federal funding and raise more money to meet an increasing need for serious journalism as commercial newspapers and broadcasters see declines. The heads of PBS, NPR, Minnesota-based American Public Media and others gathered in Washington to
discuss the most serious t h r e at s i n Congress to their federal funding in 44 years. Lehrer said public media Jim needs to proLehrer duce more local news and serious journalism because other channels are being used to “tease
Chinese drywall supplier agrees to settlement NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Chinese drywall supplier’s insurers have agreed to pay up to $8 million to settle court claims against the company over damage to homes from the corrosive product, according to a proposed settlement filed Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon in New Orleans must approve the deal between plaintiffs’ attorneys, Interior/ Exterior Building Supply and two of its three insurers. The
settlement would cover just a share of thousands of claims from homeowners claiming the drywall caused problems ranging from foul odors to corrosion of electrical wiring, appliances and electronics. Interior/Exterior supplied drywall made by two Chinese companies — Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin Co. and Taishan Gypsum Co. — to builders in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
and to entertain and only to inform across the surface.” “I have a good source on why this is a problem. The source is Thomas Jefferson,” Lehrer said. “Thomas Jefferson told the folks back when this country was founded that the only way this democratic society we just created is going to work is if there is an informed electorate.”
one in 15 fathers. The official census tally was 154,000, based on a narrower definition that excludes those working parttime or looking for jobs. Among adults 25 and older, 10.6 million U.S. women have master’s degrees or higher, compared with 10.5 million men.
Obama says he wants oil producers to hike output WASHINGTON (AP) — As the high cost of gasoline takes a toll on politics and pocketbooks, President Barack Obama says he is calling on major oil producers such as Saudi Arabia to increase their oil supplies to help stabilize prices, warning starkly that lack of relief would harm the global economy. “We are in a lot of conversations with the major oil producers like Saudi Arabia to let them know that i t ’s n o t g o i n g t o President Barack Obama be good for them if our economy is hobbled because of high oil prices,” Obama said. His remarks signaled a broad new appeal in the face of skyrocketing gasoline prices in the United States and they came as he reiterated a call for Congress to repeal oil industry tax breaks. In interviews Tuesday, Obama said the message to major oil producers like Saudi Arabia is that an economy that buckles because of high oil prices won’t grow and won’t be good for them or for the U.S. Obama acknowledged disruptions in oil production because of the war in Libya. But he said others can make up the difference and “we’re pushing them to do so.”
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