Market diary shows stock highs and declines from NYSE Nasdaq
Market watch reports NYSE: 1550 new highs 1712 declines 135 unchanged with volume 1,701,121,960. Nasdaq: 1913 new highs 1753 declines 407 unchanged with volume 1,481,877,175. Indicates breadth for the session with mixed performance across exchanges.
Hightower Receives Circle of Excellence Award
Stephen Hightower, owner and president of Hightower Petroleum Co. in Middletown, has received the Cincinnati USA Supplier Diversity Circle of Excellence Award from the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce. The chamber called Hightower's company a trailblazer for minority enterprise growth, with winners honored at a banquet last week at a Cincinnati hotel.
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Chamber Taking Expo Reservations for 2004 Event
The Chamber of Commerce accepts bookings for the 2004 Business-to-Business Expo from noon to 7 p.m. on October 28 at the Middletown Exhibition Center Verity Parkway and Manchester Avenue. Member booths cost 300 dollars while non members pay 550 dollars. For more information call (513) 422 4551.
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Middletown Exhibition Center
Verity Parkway
Manchester Avenue
Chamber
Realtors Plan Halloween Bash
The Middletown Board of Realtors will host a Halloween party starting at 7 p.m. on October 26 at Carol's Speakeasy located at 4440 South Dixie Highway behind Jackson Hewitt Tax Service. For more information call the board office at 513 423 3445.
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Carol’s
S. Dixie Highway
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Ohio EPA opens compliance office
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has opened a new Office of Compliance Assistance and Pollution Prevention to help businesses find information on environmental regulations compliance concerns and pollution prevention. The office can be reached at (614) 644-3469 or via www.epa.state.oh.us/app/occapp.html.
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Epa
Scripps to acquire GAC network for 140 million
Cincinnati The E W Scripps Co said it will buy Great American Country a country music video network for 140 million pending regulatory approval GAC is a Jones Media subsidiary Denver based Jones Media provides programming to more than 5000 radio stations GAC would join Scripps Networks including Home and Garden, Food Network, DIY Network and Fine Living.
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E.W. Scripps Co
GAC
Jones Media
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Scripps Networks
Home & Garden Television
Food Network
Fine Living
Tax overhaul may lift deductions for itemizers in eight states
The corporate tax overhaul could trim federal taxes by about 500 dollars for itemizers in states without income taxes. Eight states Alabama Florida Nevada South Dakota Tennessee Texas Washington Wyoming gain sales tax deductions for 2004 and 2005, with the IRS providing an estimated table. Experts caution that standard deduction filers see little change, while itemizers could benefit from added deductions including mortgage interest and property taxes.
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Thomas Neill
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Money cannot buy lasting happiness, economists say
A survey of recent economic research suggests money spent on status symbols like bigger homes and cars does not raise overall happiness. Relative income matters, and gains beyond about ten thousand dollars a year yield diminishing happiness returns. Health, family life, and social policies influence well being more than income increases.
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Robert H. Frank
Cornell University
Associated Press
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Fessor of Economics
University of Southern California
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Maya
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Easterlin
Sweden
Delta pilots talks intensify as bankruptcy loom
Delta Air Lines and the Air Line Pilots Association face intense negotiations amid a potential Chapter 11 filing. Union leaders fly to Fort Lauderdale for meetings while Delta offers more than 1 billion dollars in annual concessions and work rule changes.
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Delta Air Lines
Florida
Delta
Karen Miller
Air Line Pilots Association
Miller
Fort Lauderdale
National Union
John Kennedy
ALPA
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