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  • Kansas City-area business briefs: Assurant brings in VP

    - 07/22/2008 10:06 PM CDT

    Former Kansas City insurance executive Tim Knott is returning to Assurant Employee Benefits as vice president-insurance operations.

  • Starwatch Consumer: Bread label clarified

    - 07/22/2008 10:15 PM CDT

    Sara Lee Corp. has agreed to clarify labels showing the amount of whole grain contained in its Soft & Smooth bread. The company and food-labeling advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest reached an agreement on the labels Monday.

  • National business briefs: Defined-benefit pension plans frozen

    - 07/22/2008 10:06 PM CDT

    About half of employers with traditional defined-benefit pension plans have frozen one or more of those plans, putting the retirement incomes of millions at risk, according to a government report made public Tuesday. The Government Accountability Office said more than 3 million people covered by its study, which represented about a fifth of all participants in single-employer defined-benefit plans, were affected by freezes.

  • Heads Up: Ford retooling plans expected

    - 07/22/2008 10:32 PM CDT

    Ford is expected to announce its latest retooling plans along with its quarterly earnings on Thursday. Its new emphasis on smaller cars is expected to bring more European models to the U.S. market, and the company is expected to retool at least one truck plant to make small cars. Ford has already announced plans to drop an F-150 shift at its Claycomo plant and add a line there making Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner compact SUVs.

  • Kansas City cash grain: July 22

    - 07/22/2008 09:11 PM CDT

    KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Wheat: 452,059 bushels: 9 1/2 cents lower to 8 cents higher; No. 2 hard, 7.74 1/2 -7.95 1/5nominally; No. 3, 7.63 1/2 -7.94 1/2 nominally; No. 2 red wheat, 6.29 1/2 -7.40 1/2 nominally; No. 3 6.18 1/2 -7.39 1/2 nominally.

  • Missouri cash grain: July 22

    - 07/22/2008 09:11 PM CDT

    Daily Trends: Soybeans .03 lower to .09 higher, Wheat .01 to .06 higher, Corn .12 to .20 lower, Sorghum .28 lower.

  • Small-business owners learn to adapt in economic downturn

    - 07/21/2008 09:18 PM CDT

    Like the monster in a bad summer movie, inflation has risen from a long slumber. But many owners of local small businesses — such as florist Gary Barnett, co-owner of The Flower Man —are hoping for a happy ending but preparing for the worst.

  • June home construction up from May, down from last year

    - 07/21/2008 08:06 PM CDT

    Kansas City area home builders posted a month-to-month increase in construction activity in June with 249 single-family permits, up 15 percent from May.

  • Local stocks: Nasdaq threatens to delist Brooke Corp.

    - 07/21/2008 10:18 PM CDT

    Brooke Corp. said Monday that it had been warned by Nasdaq that its stock might be delisted if the company did not raise its share prices to at least $1 by Jan. 12.

  • KU makes list of colleges to work for

    - 07/21/2008 09:06 PM CDT

    The University of Kansas is one of the “2008 Great Colleges to Work For,” according to an inaugural survey by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

  • Mutual Fund Store reports asset inflows for quarter

    - 07/21/2008 08:58 PM CDT

    The Mutual Fund Store, an Overland Park-based investment management chain, said Monday that its gross asset inflows topped $381 million during the second quarter, compared with $427 million in its seasonally higher first quarter.

  • Liberty Bank to hold 18th and Vine events

    - 07/21/2008 08:06 PM CDT

    Liberty Bank & Trust, which recently took over the failed Douglass National Bank, is introducing itself to the community with activities July 25 in the 18th and Vine District.

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