<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://demo.cbslocal.com/business/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>DEMO - CBS Network National Test Site</title><link>http://demo.cbslocal.com/business</link><description><![CDATA[DEMO - CBS Network National Test Site]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:48:40 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Feds Shut Down Small Bank In Ohio]]></title><guid>http://demo.cbslocal.com/business/ohio.bank.failure.2.1576150.html</guid><link>http://demo.cbslocal.com/business/ohio.bank.failure.2.1576150.html</link><description><![CDATA[Regulators have shut down a small bank in Ohio, boosting to 31 the number of bank failures in the U.S. so far this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Friday took over American National Bank of Parma, Ohio, with $70.3 million in assets and $66.8 million in deposits. <br />
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:29:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks Fall On Continued Greek Debt Woes]]></title><guid>http://demo.cbslocal.com/business/stocks.market.dow.2.1574936.html</guid><link>http://demo.cbslocal.com/business/stocks.market.dow.2.1574936.html</link><description><![CDATA[Stocks have halted their steady climb after renewed concerns about
Greece's ability to pay its debts left investors questioning a global
economic recovery. According to preliminary calculations, the Dow fell 37.19, or 0.3 percent, to 10,741.98. The Standard &amp; Poor's 500 index fell 5.93, or 0.5 percent, to 1,159.90. The Nasdaq composite index fell 16.87, or 0.7 percent, to 2,374.41.
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:03:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gas Prices At Highest Level Since 2008]]></title><guid>http://demo.cbslocal.com/business/gas.prices.motorists.2.1573961.html</guid><link>http://demo.cbslocal.com/business/gas.prices.motorists.2.1573961.html</link><description><![CDATA[U.S. motorists are paying the highest prices for gas since October 2008. Retail gasoline prices rose on Thursday on an expected increase in demand and as more expensive spring and summer blends of gasoline make their way to the pumps. The nationwide average hit $2.799 per gallon, a penny higher than Wednesday, according to AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. <br />
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:13:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks End Mixed On Price, Jobless Reports]]></title><guid>http://demo.cbslocal.com/business/stocks.market.dow.2.1571993.html</guid><link>http://demo.cbslocal.com/business/stocks.market.dow.2.1571993.html</link><description><![CDATA[Stocks ended mixed Thursday after reports signaled that the economy is slowly regaining strength. According to preliminary calculations, the Dow rose 45.50, or 0.4 percent, to 10,779.17. That marks the highest close since Oct. 1, 2008. The Dow last rose for eight straight days in the period ended Aug. 27.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:45:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama Signs Jobs Bill With Small-Business Tax Cuts]]></title><guid>http://demo.cbslocal.com/business/Obama.jobs.bill.2.1572167.html</guid><link>http://demo.cbslocal.com/business/Obama.jobs.bill.2.1572167.html</link><description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has signed a jobs bill with $18 billion in tax breaks as well as $20 billion for highways and transit. Obama said many small businesses are on the fence about whether to hire new workers, but tax incentives in the jobs bill should make the decision that much easier.
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:13:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gas Prices At Highest Since Oct. 2008]]></title><guid>http://demo.cbslocal.com/business/gasoline.prices.highest.2.1572416.html</guid><link>http://demo.cbslocal.com/business/gasoline.prices.highest.2.1572416.html</link><description><![CDATA[Motorists are paying the highest prices for gas since October 2008. Retail gasoline prices rose on Thursday on an expected increase in demand and as more expensive spring and summer blends of gasoline make their way to the pumps. The nationwide average hit $2.799 per gallon, a penny higher than Wednesday, according to AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. Prices have now jumped 18.9 cents in the past month and are 87.9 cents higher than year-ago levels. Back on Oct. 23, 2008 prices averaged $2.8215 per gallon.
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:39:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks Climb After Fed Pledges To Hold Rates Low]]></title><guid>http://demo.cbslocal.com/business/stocks.market.dow.2.1568631.html</guid><link>http://demo.cbslocal.com/business/stocks.market.dow.2.1568631.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Dow Jones industrial average has closed at a new 2010 high as investors grow more confident that interest rates will stay at their current low levels. According to preliminary calculations, the Dow rose 47.69, or 0.5 percent, to 10,733.67. The Dow topped its earlier high for 2010 of 10,725.43 from Jan. 19. <br />
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:36:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senate OKs Jobs Bill; Awaiting Obama's Signature]]></title><guid>http://demo.cbslocal.com/business/jobs.bill.Senate.2.1569108.html</guid><link>http://demo.cbslocal.com/business/jobs.bill.Senate.2.1569108.html</link><description><![CDATA[Companies that hire unemployed workers will get a temporary payroll tax
holiday under a bill that easily won final congressional approval
Wednesday. The bipartisan 68-29 vote in the Senate sends the
legislation to the White House, where President Obama has
promised to sign it into law.
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:52:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bernanke To Wage Battle For Fed Powers]]></title><guid>http://demo.cbslocal.com/business/ben.bernanke.federal.2.1567167.html</guid><link>http://demo.cbslocal.com/business/ben.bernanke.federal.2.1567167.html</link><description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke plans to wage a fresh battle against Senate efforts to scale back the Fed's role in supervising the nation's banks. In testimony prepared for a House hearing on Wednesday obtained by The Associated Press, Bernanke argued that the Fed factors in information it gets from its role as a regulator into its decisions on interest rates.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:11:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home Construction Hurt By Winter Blizzards]]></title><guid>http://demo.cbslocal.com/business/homebuilding.winter.weather.2.1566940.html</guid><link>http://demo.cbslocal.com/business/homebuilding.winter.weather.2.1566940.html</link><description><![CDATA[Housing construction fell in February as winter blizzards held down activity in the Northeast and South. The decline highlighted the challenges facing builders as they struggle to emerge from the worst housing slump in decades. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that construction of new homes and apartments fell 5.9 percent in February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 575,000 units, slightly higher than the 570,000 that economists were expecting. January activity was revised up to a pace of 622,000 units, the strongest showing in 14 months.<br />
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