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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 2009
Page
6
Stocks fell after a week of mixed trading as the dollar rose and demand for safe government debt increased. The Dow dropped to 10,318.16, down 0.1 percent, with the S P 500 at 1,091.38 and Nasdaq at 2,146.04. For the week the Dow rose modestly while the S P 500 and Nasdaq posted small declines. November shows gains for all three averages, led by the Dow.
A USA Today chart misrepresents seat capacity loss at The Eastern Iowa Airport by omitting Allegiant Air data. The chart shows 23.6 percent fewer seats than November 2007, but actual figures indicate an 11.2 percent drop since 2007 peak. Allegiant accounts for about 18 percent of flights and does not report to the Official Airline Guide.
My Chiro expands in Corridor area with a third clinic at 1711 Second St Coralville joining Cedar Rapids locations. The practice does not accept insurance and charges a flat fee per visit. Contact Dr Bruce Weisbein at 8197218728 or bruce mychirowalkin.com for details.
Benchmark crude fell 0.74 to end at 76.72 a barrel on the last trading day of the December contract. Retail gas prices rose for the third straight day to a national average of 2.642 dollars per gallon, per AAA Gazette and the Associated Press.
The October unemployment rate climbed to 6.7 percent, the same as September’s revised figure, with 1,573,400 Iowans employed. Services added 2,300 jobs, manufacturing gained 500, while construction fell by 500. Education and health care produced 9,000 jobs, including 1,300 in health care, but analysts say recovery remains slow.
Home shoppers may accelerate in the fourth quarter due to an extended first time buyer tax credit and expanded eligibility. The credit now equals 10 percent of the home price up to 8000 for first timers and 6500 for repeat buyers with contracts by April 30 and closing by June 30. Experts forecast incremental sales with first timers led gains and move up buyers showing some impact but smaller.
Whirlpool Corp laid off 33 workers at its Middle Amana refrigerator plant with notices issued Friday and layoffs taking effect Wednesday. Machinists Local 831 confirmed the move saying restructuring of a production line prompted the cuts. Laid-off workers kept the holiday turkey gifts they would have received next week.
Cedar Rapids United Fire named Jack Evans chair, replacing the late Scott McIntyre Jr. Evans, interim chair, has long ties to Cedar Rapids as Hall Perrine Foundation president and joined United Fire’s board in 1995. John Rife was elected vice chairman and James Noyce became a new independent director on the audit committee.
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