http://creditherald.com Financial blog Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:04:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Joe Reagan is a busy man these days. The new president of the Regional Chamber and Growth Association, effective Wednesday, Reagan has been bouncing all week, from sit-downs with elected officials to soirees with the business community, where one person after another wants to say hi and bend his ear. ... http://creditherald.com/meet-the-new-rcga-boss-qa-with-joe-reagan/ JEFFERSON CITY • Minutes after reaching an agreement to end a filibuster effort that lasted nearly 15 hours, the Missouri Senate endorsed legislation early Thursday that would change the state's workplace discrimination laws. Fearful of reversing decades of hard-fought civil rights gains, Democrats held the Senate floor for hours Wednesday ... http://creditherald.com/after-filibuster-compromise-is-reached-in-senate-on-workplace-bill/ Not many people know the Kauffman Foundation, but after this Sunday a lot more will have an idea.The $2 billion nonprofit that focuses on fostering U.S. entrepreneurship is running its first ever TV ad, and it's doing it during the Super Bowl.So, sandwiched between commercials featuring scantily clad ... http://creditherald.com/kauffman-foundation-super-bowl-ad-calls-on-entrepreneurs/ The U.S. budget deficit will shrink this year to $1.1 trillion, the Congressional Budget Office said today in a report sure to inflame the election-year debate over the government shortfall. The budget deficit, which would be down from last year http://creditherald.com/us-will-run-11-trillion-deficit-cbo-says-bloomberg/ Europe's crippling debt crisis dominated the world's foremost gathering of business and political leaders, but for the first time the growing inequality between the planet's haves and have-nots became an issue, thanks largely to the Arab Spring uprisings, the Occupy movement and other protests around the globe. The mood at ... http://creditherald.com/euro-rich-poor-gap-proved-key-issues-at-davos/ Americans were more optimistic about potential improvements in the job market in January, pushing consumer confidence to its highest level in nearly a year, a survey released on Friday showed. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan's final reading on the overall index on consumer sentiment rose to 75.0 from ... http://creditherald.com/january-consumer-sentiment-highest-in-nearly-a-year/ New orders for U.S. manufactured goods rose in December and a gauge of future business investment rebounded, showing the economy ended the year with more momentum than previously thought. Other reports on Thursday showed new claims for jobless benefits rose moderately last week, suggesting the labor market was ... http://creditherald.com/durable-goods-data-points-to-economic-momentum/ Bank of England policy maker Adam Posen said officials will increase their bond-purchase target next month if new forecasts for growth and inflation justify expanding stimulus again. http://creditherald.com/posen-says-boe-to-expand-qe-again-if-forecasts-justify-it-bloomberg/ World stocks hovered between gains and losses as talks on a debt agreement for Greece dragged on. Only a handful of markets were open for business in Asia. Trading is closed in mainland China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines for Chinese New Year. As ... http://creditherald.com/world-stocks-muted-as-greece-debt-talks-drag-on/ Divers plumbing the capsized Costa Concordia's murky depths pulled out the body of a woman in a life vest Saturday, while scuba-diving police swam through the captain's cabin to retrieve a safe and documents belonging to the man who abandoned the cruise liner after it was gashed by a rocky ... http://creditherald.com/ship-search-finds-12th-body-captains-documents/