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Survey: Toyota still in a fix

DETROIT — Consumers say they have heard more negative news about Toyota in recent days than they heard about General Motors and Chrysler during their bankruptcies last spring, according to BrandIndex, a consumer survey that tracks perceptions of hundreds of companies.

Auto recalls put spotlight on electronics

NEW YORK — Your most expensive piece of electronics probably is not your flat panel TV or your computer. More likely, it’s your car, which can pack 50 microprocessors to control everything from the fuel mix to the rearview mirrors.

CVS Caremark 4th-Q profit up 11%

NEW YORK — CVS Caremark Corp., one of the nation’s biggest drugstore operators, said Monday its profit rose 11 percent in the fourth quarter as results improved for its pharmacy benefits management business.

Stocks hit by slump

NEW YORK — A slump in financial stocks Monday sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its first close below 10,000 in three months as concerns about the global economy and U.S. interest-rate policy simmered.

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Mount Airy Casino Resort, Monroe County, said it filed an application Monday with the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board seeking approval for a Table Game Operation Certificate.

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Toyota recalls 437,000 Priuses, hybrids globally - 02/09/2010

Toyota says it is recalling about 437,000 Prius and other hybrid vehicles worldwide to fix brake problems _ the latest in a string of embarrassing safety lapses at the world's largest automaker. "I don't see Toyota as an infallible company that never makes mistakes," President Akio Toyoda said at a press conference Tuesday i

EU government bank says no bailout for Greece - 02/09/2010

The European Union's government-backed lender says it cannot bail out Greece or any other European country that can't pay its debts. The European Investment Bank said in a statement Tuesday that it could "only finance economically viable projects" and that its rules would not allow it help an EU nation cover a budget deficit

GOP wary of pitfalls in Obama's health care summit - 02/09/2010

Even as Republicans publicly welcome President Barack Obama's call for a bipartisan confab on health care, some privately worry that he might be laying a trap to portray their ideas as flimsy. If so, a shaky showing by GOP leaders could possibly embolden congressional Democrats to make a final, aggressive push to overhaul the nation's

Greece seeks pension, wage reform as strike looms - 02/09/2010

Greece's government on Tuesday tackled the thorny issue of pension and wage reform, part of its plan to fight a debt crisis that has alarmed global markets, even as strikes were being planned nationwide. The cabinet talks come as Prime Minister George Papandreou's center left government accelerates austerity measures meant to calm mar