LIN TV 3Q profit falls 55% to $1.74M
PROVIDENCE – LIN TV Corp. (NYSE: TVL), a multimedia company whose stations include the Providence-based WNAC-TV Fox and CBS affiliate WPRI-TV, today posted a...
Construction spending across U.S. rises 0.3%
WASHINGTON – Construction spending nationwide edged up 0.3 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.163 trillion per year, 0.3 percent...
R.I. board names Realtor of the Year
WARWICK – The Rhode Island Association of Realtors today announced that Richmond resident Stephen Antoni has been named the state’s 2007 Realtor of the...
Scammers take Job Lot name in vain
NORTH KINGSTOWN – Ocean State Job Lot today announced that scam artists apparently operating out of Winnipeg, Canada, have been using the company’s name...
Fed again pares 2 key interest rates
WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve policymakers have lowered two key interest rates, each by 0.25 percentage points, the Federal Open Market Committee said in a...
September single-family home sales fall 27%
During September, Rhode Island single-family home sales plummeted 27 percent year-over-year, according to a report today from The Warren Group, a tracker of New...
U.S. goods and services output rises 3.9% in 3Q
WASHINGTON – The real gross domestic product, adjusted for inflation, increased at an annual rate of 3.9 percent in the quarter just ended, accelerating...
ADP: U.S. businesses add 106,000 jobs in October
ROSELAND, N.J. – Hiring at U.S. companies continued to accelerate this month, according to a report today from ADP Employer Services.
Employment at non-farm...
Walsh Bros. honored by Mass. Building Congress
BOSTON – Walsh Brothers Inc., a construction-management firm with offices in Boston and Providence, has been honored by the Massachusetts Building Congress as one...
Consumer confidence at 2-year low in October
NEW YORK – Confidence among U.S. consumers declined for a third consecutive month, to the lowest level since October 2005, according to a preliminary...