http://www.kval.com/news/business RSS Feed for KVAL - News - Business en-us Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:07:24 GMT http://www.kval.com/news/business/27971899.html Posing for a snapshot with a glittery championship belt in a packed theater, Seigi Nishiyama was among some 600 fans who can't get enough of World Wrestling Entertainment. http://www.kval.com/news/business/27971839.html With oil prices off nearly 30 percent from their highs of almost $150 a barrel, OPEC oil ministers are considering what was unthinkable just a few weeks ago — cutting back output to prop up the price of crude. http://www.kval.com/news/business/27953319.html Presidential nominee Barack Obama says any government takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must put the interests of taxpayers and homeowners first. His opponent, John McCain, said it was essential to restructure the mortgage giants. http://www.kval.com/news/business/27937439.html As part of its new $300 million marketing campaign and image makeover, Microsoft Corp. plans to deploy its own customer-service representatives at retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City to help people with their PC purchases. http://www.kval.com/news/business/27926194.html Investors are redeveloping the building across the street and a new rule banning criminal from downtown goes into effect soon, but it all comes to late for Dave Glazier, who blames the bad economy for the restaurant's demise. http://www.kval.com/news/business/27915199.html Country Coach laid off 100 employees Thursday with no plans to hire employees back, according to a company official. Other RV manufacturers have made layoffs with plans to hire back some employees after re-tooling production facilities. http://www.kval.com/news/business/27911574.html When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world. http://www.kval.com/news/business/27911324.html Ethanol's wild ride has brought it quickly from political golden child to scapegoat for everything from soaring food prices and world hunger to pork-barrel spending. http://www.kval.com/news/business/27911179.html A former Boeing Helicopters executive is being charged in a loan kickback scheme based at a suburban Philadelphia plant. Federal prosecutors say Anthony Forte used his job as a vice president with Boeing's credit union to obtain $1,000 kickbacks. http://www.kval.com/news/business/27911009.html The nation's unemployment rate zoomed to a five-year high of 6.1 percent in August as employers slashed 84,000 jobs, dramatic proof of the mounting damage a deeply troubled economy is inflicting on workers and businesses alike.