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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 2009
Page
8
Stocks mostly fell as mixed reports on home prices and consumer confidence offered little incentive for traders. The Dow edged up 14.21 points to 9,882.17 while the S&P 500 slid 3.54 points to 1,063.41 and Nasdaq dropped 25.76 points to 2,116.09.
The Conference Board shows the Consumer Confidence Index at 47.7 in October, a near two-decade low and well below forecasts of 53.1, with bleak job prospects weighing on sentiment. Verizon reports Q3 earnings of $1.18 billion and 41 cents per share, hurt by fewer new subscribers amid higher costs and an acquisition.
The S&P Case Shiller 20 city index rose 1 percent from July to 144.5, marking the third straight monthly gain. Prices remain 11.4 percent lower than a year earlier, with a broad upturn across 15 metro areas led by San Francisco Minneapolis and San Diego.
A Washington Post report details high biosecurity pig housing and concerns among virologists that H1N1 may originate in pigs. Experts urge better monitoring of pig populations and human-pig flu transmission to prevent future pandemics as testing programs expand nationwide.
The federal government awarded $5 million to Iowa municipal utilities for a smart grid rollout under the Smart Grid Investment Grant program. The plan includes 32,000 smart thermostats across 75 utilities serving 96,000 customers to reduce peak demand and cut the need for 57 megawatts of generation. A web portal will show remote thermostat changes, with work to continue over two years in Amana Kalona Tipton Traer and Vinton.
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