Unetixs opens facility in Quonset
NORTH KINGSTOWN – Unetixs Vascular, a firm specializing in instruments for diagnosing vascular disease, has opened a 30,000-square-foot headquarters in Quonset Business Park.
The building,...
Business productivity growth slows in 3Q
WASHINGTON – The productivity of U.S. business and manufacturing workers increased in the third quarter, although at a slower rate than in the previous...
ADP: Private payrolls plunge in October
ROSELAND, N.J. – Payrolls at U.S. companies shrank by 157,000 jobs last month, after losing an upwardly-revised 26,000 jobs in September, ADP Employment Services...
R.I. voters overwhelmingly OK bonds,<br> re-elect Kennedy, Langevin and Reed
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island yesterday returned to Congress all three legislators whose seats were at issue this year, re-electing U.S. Sen. Jack Reed and...
Capital Properties 3Q profit rises 43.5%
EAST PROVIDENCE – Capital Properties Inc. (Amex: CPI) has posted a third-quarter profit of $478,000, a 43.54-percent increase from the year-ago $333,000 (READ MORE),...
AAA: R.I. gas prices at 21-month low
PROVIDENCE – “You have to go all the way back to February of 2007 to find a time when gas prices were this low...
Carcieri urges support for train-station funding
During a construction “update” for the train station being built in Warwick, R.I. Airport Corporation CEO Kevin A. Dillon last week stressed the potential...
Textron’s Bell to fire 500 as contract nixed
PROVIDENCE – Textron Inc.’s Bell Helicopter unit said it will let go 500 employees, or 4 percent of its work force, after the U.S....
Personal spending falls sharply in September
WASHINGTON – The nation’s savings rate rose last month as personal spending by U.S. consumers last month posted its sharpest decline since 2004, outweighing...
Buyout costs widen A.H. Belo’s 3Q loss
DALLAS – A.H. Belo Corp. (NYSE: AHC) saw itsthird-quarter loss widen to $17.26 million, a 275-percent increase from the $6.28 million loss posted a...