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Previous: January 2, 2009

Friday 01.09.2009

• Q4 GSO housing sales fall 23 percent
• Verizon Wireless completes Alltel deal
• Surrey Bancorp receives $2M from Treasury
• Study: N.C. needs 'new approach' to incentives
• Mortgage rates fall to record low
• Furniture Brands, Lifestyle settle suit
• U.S. loses another 524,000 jobs

Thursday 01.08.2009

• Target, Wal-Mart among parade of retailers reporting weak holiday sales
• Greensboro College biz programs accredited
• USA Today plans $5 Obama paper
• Wells taps two Wachovia execs
• Lenovo layoffs to impact Triad
• Downtown GSO gets another clothing shop
• Triad Business Index steadies
• Macy's to close 11 stores, none in N.C.
• Bouvier Kelly wins health marketing awards
• N.C. gets new Medicare claims processor
• Bell Co. acquires $23M Atlanta property

Wednesday 01.07.2009

• Former NASCAR team owner to plead guilty
• High Point Regional drops trauma status
• Kiplinger’s: Triad schools among 100 best values
• Southeast consumer confidence plummets
• Truliant CU opens new GSO office
• Davie County Hospital adds sleep lab
• UPS adds domestic express in 16 nations
• Lowe’s names chief risk officer
• US Airways eyes more capacity cuts
• ACBJ chairman to receive SABEW award
• BofA’s Lewis: No bonuses for top execs

Tuesday 01.06.2009

• Wells Fargo buys loans, leases from GE
• Bank of Oak Ridge capital plan approved
• Audit: State overpaid temps by $3.5 million
• Triad to see $92M in new state spending
• Judge tosses General Tobacco suit
• Triad unemployment jumps to 8 percent
• Cigna: No decision yet on Triad job cuts
• R.L. Stowe Mills to close
• LabCorp lowers 2009 outlook
• Report: VC-backed IPOs fall to 30-year low
• US Airways joins lawsuit against FAA

Monday 01.05.2009

• Panel to offer economic survival tips
• Center Pointe lands local chef
• N.C. foreclosures jumped 9% in 2008
• Perdue taps Carlisle for cultural post
• Fed: Canada imported 24% of North Carolina exports in 2007
• Nexsen Pruet opens Raleigh office
• Triad's Crisco named N.C. commerce sec'y
• PR Store, business coaches form club
• GSO Country Club plans $11M renovation
• HIgh Point Univ. going smoke-free
• Obama to replace Bill Richardson at Commerce Department
• Furniture orders fall again
• Jobs says he has hormonal imbalance, will remain Apple CEO

Friday 01.02.2009

• Restaurant opens in downtown Greensboro
• Report: Online holiday sales worst since '01
• Time Warner, Viacom reach New Year’s deal
• Visa: Americans saving for rainy day
• WFU to hold diversity event
• Report: Some IPOs may surprise in 2009
• Manufacturing falls to 28-year low
• King takes reins at BB&T
• NYSE suspends R.H. Donnelley shares
• Fifth Third sells $3.4B in shares to feds
• Wells, BofA complete big acquisitions

Thursday 01.01.2009

• Report: Petty Enterprises to merge
• Reports: Amazon no longer accepting eBay's Bill Me Later
• New product speculation swirls by Apple faithful in advance of MacWorld

Wednesday 12.31.2008

• Viacom programming could be yanked from Time Warner Cable
• Macy's customers might be overcharged
• Reynolds Plantation developer acquires N.C. golf community
• Report: Big bailout recipients still shaky
• BofA amends Allied Capital credit line
• PETA wants PetSmart to stop live animal sales
• Wells Fargo cuts jobs as Wachovia merger nears
• SEC changes oil, gas reporting rules
• Dell reorganizing global structure
• Covation to add 913 jobs in Hickory

Tuesday 12.30.2008

• Trucking firm shifting Triad operations
• GSO call center laying off 73
• AT&T seeks telecom rule change
• BB&T adds Burlington underwriter
• Feds give GMAC $5B lifeline
• Report: $14B IndyMac sale could come by Wednesday
• Cuban buys stake in Carmike Theaters
• Lexington, Raleigh CPA firms merge
• Delta completes sale of 18.2M shares
• Chick-fil-A to give away chicken biscuits for new year

Monday 12.29.2008

• WFDD exceeds fundraising goal
• Scana to sell 2 million shares
• Rice is chair-elect of NC hospital group
• Report: Lehman filing cost creditors $75B
• AT&T to offer $99 iPhone, not Wal-Mart
• Piedmont Natural Gas earnings up for year, down in 4Q
• CEO pay shifting toward stock
• Report: Holiday sales tumble
• First Citizens delays end of IronStone brand

Saturday 12.27.2008

• FedEx will delay Triad hub, cut hiring

Friday 12.26.2008

• iPod nano top holiday seller
• Report: FDIC near deal to sale of IndyMac assets
• GMAC approved as bank holding company

Wednesday 12.24.2008

• McDonald elected to Wells Fargo board
• McClatchy stock hits all-time low
• Delta delays RDU-Paris flight for a year
• National Retail Federation asks for more sales tax breaks
• Personal spending falls 0.6% in Nov.
• Passenger traffic at RDU drops 14%
• Motorsports team launches in Welcome
• State OKs Novant's Clemmons bid conditionally

Tuesday 12.23.2008

• BB&T donates to Tarheel Triad Girl Scouts
• Transportation to be focus of panel talk
• Wachovia shareholders OK Wells deal
• U.S. economy shrank by 0.5% in third quarter
• FedEx will not advertise during Super Bowl
• Triad building permits drop dramatically
• Survey: crisis communication is up
• N.C. among fastest-growing states
• Holiday travel to fall in N.C.
• U.S. economy shrank by 0.5% in third quarter
• GSO nonprofits to receive $200k
• One Park builder faces $500K+ in liens
• Mellow Mushroom opens in Greensboro
• Wake Forest sues medical device maker
• WSSU wins grant for renovations

Monday 12.22.2008

• Twin City eatery delays expansion
• Holiday spending in U.S. drops 1 percent
• Obama: Automakers must make ‘hard choices’
• Bill Davis sells stake in NASCAR team
• GSO companies win state contracts
• GTCC to announce new training program
• November job losses in N.C. topped the U.S.
• Carolina Bank approved for TARP funds
• High Point country club reviewing options
• Blue Cross launches doctor rating survey