Sears Holdings Deepens Loss As Company Footprint Shrinks @FoxBusiness
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2016/02/25/sears-holdings-deepens-loss.html
Casino Moguls Wynn, Ruffin Gamble on Trump Differently @FoxBusiness
http://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/2016/02/25/casino-moguls-wynn-ruffin-gamble-on-trump-differently.html
Mansion sales and discount dining: oil rout hits Houston’s rich
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-houston-idUSKCN0VY152
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The Closing Look
Stocks rallied on Thursday as the market added to Wednesday’s very strong positive reversal. Overnight, the Shanghai composite plunged -6.4% and hit a three-week low. Rumors spread that China’s central bank injected another $52 billion into the money market to help stabilize markets. The ChiNext index which tracks small-cap Chinese stocks tanked -7.7% which clearly…
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In End of an Era, MetLife Looks To Part With Insurance Agents
Insurer is in talks to sell business of roughly 4,000 sales people to Massachusetts Mutual By LESLIE SCISM Updated Feb. 25, 2016 8:22 a.m. ET 13 COMMENTS MetLife Inc. is preparing to part ways with a central force in the company’s history: its life-insurance agents. The nation’s largest life insurer by assets is in talks…
Cutting The Cord? Not So Fast: Cablevision Ends 2015 With First Customer Growth Since 2008 Crisis
Cablevision Ends 2015 With First Customer Growth Since 2008 Crisis Cable operator’s quarterly revenue comes in below expectations Cablevision Systems Corp. said 2015 marked its first year-over-year growth in customers since 2008, though the cable operator’s fourth-quarter revenue was slightly below expectations. As of Dec. 31, Cablevision reported 3.1 million total customers—businesses or households that…
FT: CEO Email Scam Costs Companies $2bn
A scam in which criminals impersonate the email accounts of chief executives has cost businesses around the globe more than $2bn in little over two years, according to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI has seen a sharp increase in “business email crime,” a simple scam that is also known as “CEO fraud”,…