Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Dow up 78 | iPad3 debut | $7B in state contracts hit | Indiana hit-run driver apparently accelerated | Cubs price patio

 Wedensday, March 7, 2012 • chicagotribune.com business newsletter
By Mary Jane Grandinetti, BizWrap columnist

CLOSING BELL
DJIA 12,837.33 +78.18 | NSDQ 2,935.69 +25.37 | S&P 1,352.63 +9.27

Optimism on the jobs front and over the Greek bailout help stocks rebound from Tuesday's rout: MORE>>



TOP BUSINESS NEWS
jjMore iPad, same price: MORE>>
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Illinois' auditor is not at all happy with some $7 billion in insurance contracts awarded in 2011: MORE>>

Michigan Avenue Niketown store closing Monday for remodeling: MORE>>

Are you on Forbes' billionaires list?: MORE>>
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Hackers take down Vatican site: MORE>>
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Netflix looks to get foot in cable's door: MORE>>

Toyota recalls
680,000 vehicles: MORE>>

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TALKING BUSINESS
“We would have preferred to keep the existing defined benefit plan in place, but that simply was not possible. It’s definitely a win for us and for other workers as well,” said James C. Little, Transport Workers International president, on American Airlines' decision to freeze, rather than terminate, pensions: MORE>>


IN OTHER NEWS
jjSherriff: Driver apparently accelerated in hit-and-run that killed one Lake County, Ind., officer and injured three: MORE>>

Emanuel offers few details on the loss of G-8: MORE>>

Romney's camp: "Catch us if you can": MORE>>
 • Seems they haven't been to the rural South: MORE>>
 •
Obama has a decidedly different take: MORE>>

Two Hawaiian islands declared disaster areas: MORE>>

Syrian neighborhood goes from beseiged to abandoned: MORE>>
 • Turkey calls for immediate humanitarian access: MORE>>

Six British solders killed in Afghanistan blast: MORE>>

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IN THE BLOGOSPHERE
A nonapology as sponsors jump ship may not be enough to save Rush Limbaugh. Clarence Page explains in Page's Page: MORE>>
 • Actress Patricia Heaton has Rush's back: MORE>> 


SPORTS FIX

Peyton Manning, hmmmm: MORE>>
 • Lovie Smith backs Obama -- for president, that is: MORE>>

Cubs 4, Royals 0 in the 3rd: MORE>>
 • Brewers 3, Sox 0 in the 2nd: MORE>>
 • Cubs price bleacher patio. Are you sitting down? MORE>>

Looks like the Bulls will be without C.J. Watson and Richard Hamilton for awhile: MORE>>

LATEST SPORTS NEWS >>


OFF THE CLOCK
jjOld Town School cancels Folk & Roots fest: MORE>>
 
Angelina Jolie calls Chicago lawsuit specious: MORE>>

Rosie O'Donnell apparently is getting ready to leave town: MORE>>



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Weather |
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