http://www.wwltv.com/news/business RSS Feed for WWL - News - Business en-us Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:00:23 GMT 2012-02-12T05:00:23Z en-us http://www.wwltv.com/news/business/138867909.html NEW YORK (AP) — It was just last summer that the Dow Jones industrial average shed 2,000 points in three terrifying weeks. Investors had a host of things to worry about, including the possibility of another recession. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:35:17 GMT http://www.wwltv.com/news/business/138867909.html 2012-02-08T12:35:17Z http://www.wwltv.com/news/business/139157164.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is focusing on re-election themes such as jobs and public works projects in President Barack Obama's new budget blueprint while relying on familiar but never enacted tax increases on the wealthy and corporations to reduce future deficits after four years of trillion dollar-plus shortfalls. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:00:23 GMT http://www.wwltv.com/news/business/139157164.html 2012-02-12T05:00:23Z http://www.wwltv.com/news/business/139152449.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Why would Greece accept more pain when unemployment is at 21 percent, the economy is enduring its fifth year of recession and rioters are hurling gasoline bombs in the streets of Athens? Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:02:46 GMT http://www.wwltv.com/news/business/139152449.html 2012-02-11T20:02:46Z http://www.wwltv.com/news/business/139154819.html INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — After losing their fight against right-to-work legislation, labor organizers are making a desperate bid on shop room floors and at union halls to persuade members to keep paying their union dues and avoid crippling labor's influence in Indiana. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:32:11 GMT http://www.wwltv.com/news/business/139154819.html 2012-02-11T21:32:11Z http://www.wwltv.com/news/business/139155934.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's new budget proposal will ask Congress to devote millions of dollars for a new trade enforcement center and more U.S. inspectors in China as the administration takes aim at unfair trade practices abroad, a senior administration official said Saturday. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:02:39 GMT http://www.wwltv.com/news/business/139155934.html 2012-02-12T00:02:39Z http://www.wwltv.com/news/business/139124674.html NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department is calling Switzerland's largest private bank a fugitive from justice after it didn't show up for a court hearing in New York. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:00:33 GMT http://www.wwltv.com/news/business/139124674.html 2012-02-11T20:00:33Z http://www.wwltv.com/news/business/139152439.html NEW YORK (AP) — As the glow fades from the Giants' Super Bowl win, some New York sports fans are focusing on basketball and hockey. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:02:06 GMT http://www.wwltv.com/news/business/139152439.html 2012-02-11T20:02:06Z http://www.wwltv.com/news/business/139153189.html HOUSTON (AP) — The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. is down eight this week to 1,989. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:02:16 GMT http://www.wwltv.com/news/business/139153189.html 2012-02-11T20:02:16Z http://www.wwltv.com/news/business/139112459.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An Illinois man was sentenced Friday by a federal judge in Rhode Island to more than three years in prison for shipping unwanted penis enlargers to diabetes patients as part of a larger fraud scheme that prosecutors say bilked $2.2 million from Medicare over four years. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:01:55 GMT http://www.wwltv.com/news/business/139112459.html 2012-02-11T17:01:55Z http://www.wwltv.com/news/business/139135664.html LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Officials say Bernard Trager, the founder and chairman of Republic Bancorp Inc., has died. He was 83. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:00:34 GMT http://www.wwltv.com/news/business/139135664.html 2012-02-11T20:00:34Z