Top employers: retail

Wal-Mart Stores 13,000
Schnuck Markets 10,640
Dierbergs Markets 4,000
Walgreens 3,657
Supervalu 3,651

Commercial real estate notes

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Statoil Q3 profit drop 25 percent on higher costs

Norwegian oil company Statoil ASA said Thursday its net profit fell by 25 percent in the third quarter, mainly due to increased production costs and […]

Sales, profit rise at Sigma-Aldrich

A focus on markets in India, China and Brazil helped Sigma-Aldrich Corp. grow its third-quarter net income by 26 percent, to $117 million, or 95 […]

Nissan aims to be world No. 1 in green vehicles

Nissan Motor Co. is aiming to be the world’s No. 1 in green cars, targeting cumulative sales of 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles with alliance partner […]

Report: Google mulling role in possible Yahoo bid

Google is exploring the possibility of helping to finance a possible deal by others to acquire Yahoo. That’s according to a published report by the […]

Behind Tim Hortons’ most successful campaign

THE CAMPAIGN: Tim Horton

Laclede, developer resolve gas pipeline dispute

Laclede Gas Co. has agreed to settle a dispute over a planned natural gas pipeline, granting the project’s developer access to the utility’s St. Louis […]

Average Toronto house price jumps to $465,369

The fall weather has yet to cool house sales with sales of newly listed homes up 2.7 per cent in September over August and 11 […]

Wall Street protesters march again in NYC

Demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street encampment are on the move again in New York City.
As many as 1,000 protesters were marching Saturday morning to […]