Business calendar – Buffalo News
Notices of meetings, seminars and workshops of interest to the Buffalo-area business community should be sent to the Business News Desk of The News, Box 100, Buffalo, NY 14240; faxed to 849-4587; or e-mailed to fin@buffnews.com by the preceding Thursday.
Traders claim eBay fees are killing business – The Independent
Small firms that sell their goods on eBay are being squeezed out of business by a massive rise in fees to use the online auction site. Many traders have seen their costs double, with eBay siphoning off up to 12 per cent of the final sale price. The …
Businesses keep financial promises with tax-break deals – St. Cloud Times
The decision about whether to expand their 60-year-old business weighed on the minds of Harvey and Carol Pfannenstein. Growing competition for St. Joseph Meat Market meant they either had to expand or downsize. But expansion isn t cheap. Construction …
Exclusively in today’s The News-Press – News-Press
The News-Press runs exclusive content in each Sunday edition. Look for investigative stories, as well as stories from our main sections Local, Sports and Business that you can only read in the Sunday newspaper. On Tuesday, these exclusive stories …
WRAPUP 1-Murdoch battles to save UK paper business as probes loom – Reuters
NEW YORK/CANBERRA, July 14 (Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch, fighting to bring under control a crisis that has cost him a $12 billion deal, is unlikely to rush into the sale of the newspaper business at the heart of the hacking uproar in Britain. The shockwaves …
Building Your 529 Business – American Banker Online
With the recent news of a surge in usage by investors, Schott believes that opportunities are plentiful for high-net-worth advisors to build their business by unlocking the hidden potential of 529 college-savings plans. Case in point: Schott, the director …
Businesses see energy prices as top risk – Reuters UK
LONDON (Reuters) – Companies rate energy supply and costs as a top risk factor to their business, an RWE npower survey showed on Monday, 10 days after a second major British energy supplier announced double-digit tariff increases from this summer.
Randy McClain: Pessimism is the rule at Main St. businesses – Nashville Tennessean
All these emotions continue to bubble up on Main Street as small-business owners like the rest of us await more sales, more jobs and less pain on the economic front. But here s the sad bottom line at least according to the latest economic …