Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Dow above 13,000 | iPad 3 next week | Ugh, home prices | CME subpoenaed | Natalie Portman married

Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012 • chicagotribune.com business newsletter
By Zoe Galland, BizWrap columnist

CLOSING BELL
DJIA
13,005.12 +23.61 | NSDQ 2,986.76 +20.60 | S&P 1,372.18 +4.59

Finally.
The Dow closed above 13,000 for the first time since 2008 as a rise in consumer confidence outweighed disappointing durable-goods orders: MORE>>



TOP BUSINESS NEWS
jj Home prices in Chicago fall another 2 percent in December, the fourth consecutive monthly drop:
MORE>>
 • We're second only to Detroit in size of the decline: MORE>>
 • Home prices in 20 U.S. cities fall 4 percent: MORE>>

United's flight attendants
approve labor deal: MORE>>

CME Group
subpoenaed over the collapse of MF Global: MORE>>

Career Education
shares tank as the Hoffman Estates-based company fights sliding enrollment: MORE>>

Honda
loses its top spot on Consumer Reports list: MORE>>

Apple
shares top $530 for the first time after reports that it will unveil iPad 3 next week: MORE>>
 • Microsoft to unveil Windows 8 tomorrow: MORE>>

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TALKING BUSINESS
"You know what the most intriguing thing about Chicago was to all these folks at NATO? It's the food. It's surpassed architecture as the thing that really brings people to Chicago," said Lori Healey of the Illinois Restaurant Association. The group has unveiled a dining initiative aimed at bolstering enthusiasm for the G-8 and NATO summits: MORE>>

IN OTHER NEWS
jjNew details emerge about the slaying of three members of singer Jennifer Hudson's family in 2008: MORE>>

North Chicago police chief quits amid brutality allegations: MORE>>

Englewood street named in Bernie Mac's honor: MORE>>

Good news: Transportation costs per household in Chicago are among the lowest in the U.S. (unless you're in the outer suburbs): MORE>>

Oh, to be a fly on the wall at New Trier High School's alumni ceremony: MORE>>

With Michigan's GOP race too close to call, Romney's aides pound Santorum for deploying robocalls appealing to Democrats: MORE>>

Feds announce largest health care fraud case in U.S. history
: MORE>>

LATEST CHICAGO AND NATIONAL NEWS >>


IN THE BLOGOSPHERE
A third student wounded in Monday's shooting spree at a high school in suburban Ohio has died, hospital officials said Tuesday. More from the LATimes blog Nation Now: MORE>>


SPORTS FIX

Unless you have season tickets in the club level at Soldier Field, the cost of seeing a Bears game is going up: MORE>>

Hooray, Derrick Rose
says his back is pain-free: MORE>>
 • But Richard Hamilton is coping with a leg injury: MORE>>

LATEST SPORTS NEWS >>


OFF THE CLOCK
jjNatalie Portman and Benjamin Millipied tie the knot: MORE>>
 • Uma Thurman is pregnant with baby No. 3: MORE>>
 • Lucy Liu cast as Watson in CBS' modern-day Sherlock Holmes pilot "Elementary": MORE>>

Hubbard Street Dance
is planning a performance inspired by the Art Institute's Chagall windows: MORE>>


Pitchfork festival's
too-cool-for-school lineup announced: MORE>>
 • Aziz Ansari to bring comedy tour to Chicago's Just For Laughs festival: MORE>>

HEADED OUT?
Traffic | See current information on area highways, buses, trains and planes on our commuting page: MORE>>

Weather |
Overcast with rain, then a chance of thunderstorms after midnight, with a low of 39 degrees. See our weather page with radar and Tom Skilling's seven-day forecast: MORE>>



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