GM To Buy AmeriCredit Corporation For $3.5 Billion:The deal is seen as providing more car rental and financing options. The acquisition fills the role once played in the GMAC, in which the company refused as, faced with financial difficulties. General Motors Co. gets back into the credit business, a move that will give its...
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Shirley Sherrod:Shirley USDA Sherrod Disputes:A few days after the collision with the NAACP Tea Party members in connection with accusations of racism, The official U.S. Department of Agriculture NAACP banquet audience with a story about how she is held to help the white farmers on the brink of bankruptcy – the video, which currently...
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Goldman Sachs:Hit by a heavy fine and challenging the government’s terms of trade, leading Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc. reported sharply lower profits. The bank announced Tuesday morning that profit for the second quarter of this year fell 86% in the first quarter of 2010 and 84% in the second quarter of...
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Projo:The website of the Providence Journal went back to work after down more than three hours Tuesday morning after experiencing technical problems. The site began to load normally, about 11 am Tuesday. Customers achieve projo.com Tuesday morning a blank page, except “HTTP/1.1 Service Unavailable.” The message usually indicates a server overload or a Web...
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US President Barack Obama took aim at Monday congressional Republicans, accusing them of holding the public hostage to Washington’s policy by blocking the extended unemployment benefits for millions of unemployed Americans. “It is time to do what is right, but not at the next election, but for the middle class,” Obama said in a...
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