Stocks Rise After Oracle and Adobe Upgrades
Oracle and Adobe Systems upgrades boost Wall Street as tech shares lead gains. Investors await Federal Reserve meeting and upcoming data on retail sales and producer prices while volume stays light. Dow gains 0.3 percent to 9277.35. Nasdaq up 1.1 percent. S&P 500 +0.3 percent.
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Adobe Systems
Wall Street
Tech
Federal Reserve
Adobe
Michael Palazzi
Equity
SG Cowen Securities
Standard & Poor
Merrill Lynch
US Bancorp
Piper Jaffray
Regional papers merge. Kerrville Mountain Sun to remain independent
Kerrville Texas Southern Newspapers Inc owner of The Baytown Sun buys The Kerrville Mountain Sun and will keep it separate from The Kerrville Daily Times. Mountain Sun circulation about 3600, operations to be streamlined gradually. Reliant Resources in Houston to announce layoffs amid cost cuts after weak energy market and Enron‑era fallout.
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Texas
Southern Newspapers Inc
Baytown
Shrader
Mountain Sun
Texas Heritage Newspapers
Texas Heritage
Dennis E Thomas
Daily Times
Southern Newspapers
Tion
Southern
Walls
Houston
Alabama
Georgia
Boeme
Bandera
Helotes
Houston — Reliant Resources Inc
Sandy Frohman
Frohman
Fruhman
Reliant
Enron Corp
Verizon Grand Opening in Baytown at Garth Road
Verizon Wireless invites the public to the grand opening of its new Baytown store at 6560 Garth Rd Suite 100. The noon to 3 PM event features barbecue prizes giveaways and extra savings with a Texans gift pack drawing for tickets and an autographed football. Registration runs August 10 to 16 at the new store.
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Verizon Wireless
Garth Rd
Houston Texans
Utah governor named to head EPA in Bush administration
President Bush selected Utah Governor Mike Leavitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. The three term Republican is a proponent of shifting regulation to states and has worked on Western environmental issues, land exchanges, and air and water improvements. He supported a highway project near the Great Salt Lake despite wildlife concerns. Leavitt has hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics preparations and served on homeland security advisory panels.
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Utah
Mike Leavitt
Environmental Protection Agency
Leavitt
Woudd
Christie Whitman
New Jersey
EPA
Great Salt Lake
10Th Circuit
US. Court of Appeals
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Interior Department
Western Regional Air Partnership
Grand Canyon
Homeland Security
Oil prices slip as traders hold to price ranges
On the New York Mercantile Exchange crude futures eased amid market caution with no fresh news to spark a breakout. September light crude closed at 32.01 a barrel, Brent settled near 29.91, and gasoline and heating oil fell as profit taking rose. Venezuela's Ramirez signaled OPEC would keep its $22 to $28 basket band for the year.
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Sysco
Food Service Marketing and Distribution Company
MetLife
New England Financial
Thom Faria
Martha Stewart
Omnimedia
Multimedia Company
New York Stock Exchange
Japan
Europe
France
Britain
Germany
New York
New York Mercantile Exchange
Ed Lilliere
Tim Evans
Nymex
London
International Petroleum Exchange
Brent
Ket Varnes
Iitte
Venezuela
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Rafael Ramirez
Caracas
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