Wal-Mart expansion rumors surface in Lawrence area
Wal-Mart weighs a Lawrence expansion while Schnaer eyes the vacant Payless Cashways building south of Crown Automotive on South Iowa Street. The 73,500 square foot site on about 11 acres could host a new auto dealership as Wal-Mart plans to add about 220 Supercenters nationwide in 2004. Local planner Bryan Dyer notes possible rezoning may be required.
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Schnaer
Payless Cashways
Crown Automotive
Payless
Iowa Street
Wal-Mart
Wal- Mart
Morris
Lawrence
Bryan Dyer
Lawrence-Douglas County
Jury weighs Stewart insider trading fate in ImClone case
Jurors near verdict on Martha Stewart and broker Douglas Bacanovic over $225,000 ImClone stock sale on December 27, 2001. Prosecutors call Stewart lied to investigators with a post hoc cover story, while Bacanovic’s attorney questions key witness credibility and motives.
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Bacanovic
ImClone Systems
Stewart
Michael Schachter
Martha Stewart
Schachter
Greenspan signals eventual rise in rates
Fed Chair Alan Greenspan indicated that extra-low short-term rates must eventually rise to a more neutral level, though he gave no timing. Economists expect a possible rate increase later this year or in 2005, with the next policy meeting likely to hold rates steady.
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Washington
Federal Reserve
Alan Greenspan
Fed
Federal Funds
Greenspan
New York
Federal Open Market Committee
United States
Wall Street
Main Street
Lynn Reaser
Banc of America Capital Management
Boeing stays on track as 7E7 timing unfolds
Boeing senior official says 2004 division revenue around 20 billion, slightly below 2003, with 2005 near 20 billion. The 7E7, to seat 200 plus, remains on schedule to fly in 2008 and compete with Airbus A300 family while Boeing navigates an ethics probe into pricing information in a Air Force jet deal.
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Boeing
Airbus
Air Force
Phil Condit
Commodities slide on CBOT and mercantile prices
Soybeans led losses on the Chicago Board of Trade with May futures down 29 cents to 9.28½ a bushel while May wheat, corn, and oats also eased. Beef and pork futures showed mixed moves on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange as livestock quotes fell for live cattle and lean hogs but May pork bellies slipped. Local price boards across Ottawa and nearby elevators showed wheat around 3.53 and corn about 2.70 to 2.76, with soybeans near 9.09 to 9.14 a bushel and nonferrous metals trading in New York at daily spot quotes.
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Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Ottawa Cooperative Assn
Ottawa
Milo
Edgerton
Overbrook
Midland
Lawrence North
Lawrence South
Pauline
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Frank Senerchia
Dave Mattern
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Agedwards.com
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Edwards Saids
Boeing Executive
St. Joseph Fivestock
St. Joseph, Mo
Barrow
London
U.S
N.Y
Handy & Harman
Federal Communications Commission
Sunflower Broadband
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