NWCN - News - Business http://www.nwcn.com/news/business RSS Feed for NWCN - News - Business en-us Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:05:00 GMT Micron CEO Steve Appleton dies in small plane crash http://www.nwcn.com/news/business/Micron-CEO-Steve-Appleton-dies-in-small-plane-crash-138661974.html Steve Appleton, the chief executive and chairman of Micron, died Friday morning in a small, experimental fixed-wing plane crash, the company said. He was 51. Love beats action as 'The Vow' bows with $41.7M http://www.nwcn.com/news/business/139182769.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Love triumphed over action at the weekend box office with a No. 1 debut for the romantic drama "The Vow." Jittery investors watch Greece, US economic data http://www.nwcn.com/news/business/139189419.html NEW YORK (AP) — For the past six weeks, Wall Street traders have optimistically pushed the Dow Jones industrial average up nearly 4.8 percent on a belief that the U.S. economic recovery is finally gaining momentum. RI player wins $336 million Powerball jackpot http://www.nwcn.com/news/business/139180584.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Lottery officials say someone who played the Powerball in Rhode Island has won the $336.4 million jackpot. Experts: Stanford's trial not won with 1 witness http://www.nwcn.com/news/business/139184119.html HOUSTON (AP) — From testimony about bribes, blood oaths, faked profits and secret Swiss bank accounts, the ongoing fraud trial of jailed and former jet setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford has had its share of drama. Obama budget: New spending with recycled tax ideas http://www.nwcn.com/news/business/139157164.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is focusing on re-election themes such as jobs and public works projects in President Barack Obama's new budget blueprint while relying on familiar but never enacted tax increases on the wealthy and corporations to reduce future deficits after four years of trillion dollar-plus shortfalls. NY cable dispute blacks out Knicks, 4 NHL teams http://www.nwcn.com/news/business/139152439.html NEW YORK (AP) — As the glow fades from the Giants' Super Bowl win, some New York sports fans are focusing on basketball and hockey. Unions expect right-to-work will cost them members http://www.nwcn.com/news/business/139154819.html INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — After losing their fight against right-to-work legislation, labor organizers are making a desperate bid on shop room floors and at union halls to persuade members to keep paying their union dues and avoid crippling labor's influence in Indiana. Obama budget seeks to boost trade enforcement http://www.nwcn.com/news/business/139155934.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's new budget proposal will ask Congress to devote millions of dollars for a new trade enforcement center and more U.S. inspectors in China as the administration takes aim at unfair trade practices abroad, a senior administration official said Saturday. Under fire, Obama adjusts his birth control policy http://www.nwcn.com/news/business/139090594.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for birth control for workers, scrambling to end a furor raging from the Catholic Church to Congress to his re-election foes. He demanded that insurance companies step in to provide the coverage instead.