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The R.I. Small Business Loan Fund has lowered its average interest rate from 7.5 percent to 5.75 percent, the R.I. Economic Development Corporation announced Thursday.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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The 2013 edition of the Rhode Island Business Plan Competition announced its winners Tuesday afternoon at The Garage, the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce’s exposition dedicated to identifying and inspiring high-growth companies in the Ocean State.
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By PBN Staff
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Tiffany & Co., the world’s second-largest luxury jewelry retailer, reported fourth-quarter profit that topped analysts’ estimates amid demand in Asia.
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By Cotten Timberlake |
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has communicated to investigators that he and his older brother alone were responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings and motivated by extremist Islam, according to a U.S. official briefed on the initial interrogation.
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By Phil Mattingly, David McLaughlin and Janelle Lawrence |
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Plans to turn a former chocolate factory in Mansfield into condominiums have been halted after local voters Tuesday rejected an article that would have rezoned the building for residential use, reported Attleboro’s Sun Chronicle.
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By PBN Staff
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Overall mortgage activity reached a five-year high in Massachusetts in 2012, with refinance mortgages dominating 83 percent of the market share, according to new data from The Warren Group’s Mortgage MarketShare Module.
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By Alex Kowalski |
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Rhode Island’s single-family home sales rose slightly – 0.5 percent – during the first quarter of 2013, the Rhode Island Association of Realtors said Tuesday.
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By PBN Staff
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Single-family home prices in the Providence-Fall River-New Bedford metro area rose 0.6 percent from January 2012 to January 2013, according to CoreLogic’s Home Price Index.
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By PBN Staff
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(Updated, 3 p.m.) The International Council of Shopping Centers, or ICSC, is accepting registrations for an April 3 informal public-private sector networking event from 7:30 a.m. to noon at Agawam Hunt Club in Rumford, designed to foster economic regeneration.
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By Alex Kowalski |
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The city of Pawtucket’s general fund ended fiscal 2012 with a surplus of $2.7 million, according to an annual report from an independent auditor.
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By PBN Staff
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