http://mybusinesssurveys.com Finance, Business, Economic Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:45:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Gasoline prices fell below $3.70 a gallon on average across the nation, with only two states - Alaska and Hawaii - averaging above $4, according to a survey of gas station credit card swipes Friday.Regular gasoline fell to a national average retail price of $3.692 a gallon at ... http://mybusinesssurveys.com/gas-price-average-below-370/ Stocks were mixed Thursday, as a nearly $6 spike in oil prices lifted energy stocks, but dragged on many other areas of the market.The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) added a few points and the broader Standard & Poor's 500 (SPX) index rose around 0.2%. The Nasdaq composite ... http://mybusinesssurveys.com/stocks-mixed-as-oil-spikes/ Mortgage application volume fell last week to its lowest level in nearly eight years, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Wednesday.The fall in application volume is the latest sign of a struggling housing market. On Tuesday, a Commerce Department report showed construction of homes and apartments fell in July ... http://mybusinesssurveys.com/mortgage-applications-near-8-year-low/ Mrs. Fields Famous Brands LLC said Friday it plans to file for Chapter 11 protection.The cookie company is reorganizing and working out a prepackaged plan with its creditors, according to a filing Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.Representatives from Mrs. Fields did not immediately return calls for ... http://mybusinesssurveys.com/mrs-fields-to-file-for-bankruptcy/ Some Wall Street companies might not resume paying New York City taxes for "a number of years" because they can offset future profits with the losses they are currently suffering, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Monday. "I think it will be a number of years before they ... http://mybusinesssurveys.com/wall-sts-losses-might-give-it-a-tax-holiday-mayor/ UBS's (UBSN.VX: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) blunt admission that its universal banking model blurs risk, adds complexity and can eat up capital will put pressure on rivals with a similar strategy to reassess their future. But it was more UBS's failure to put sufficient risk controls in ... http://mybusinesssurveys.com/ubs-universal-bank-model-breaks-rivals-defiant/ The world may have changed on August 9 last year as the credit crunch first bit, and even some policymakers are beginning to question whether the way they work out what's happening in the economy is flawed. The market upheavals which started a year ago have now spread ... http://mybusinesssurveys.com/are-central-banks-getting-it-all-wrong/ Wal-Mart Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) suffered a defeat on Thursday when Canada's Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge of the company's 2005 decision to close a Quebec store that had been the first in North America to obtain union certification. Former employees charged ... http://mybusinesssurveys.com/canada-top-court-to-rule-on-wal-mart-union-fight/ Once, the Federal Reserve's job was to take away the punch bowl when the party got going. Now, central bank policy-makers are acting like parents lecturing teenage children on the dangers of drinking and driving -- while making clear they are willing to provide a ride home at ... http://mybusinesssurveys.com/once-punch-bowl-monitor-fed-now-designated-driver/ Currency traders are beginning to realize that for all its riches in oil, copper and lumber, Canada's economy may not be so different than the U.S. after all. While Canadians celebrated last year as the country's dollar reached parity with its U.S. counterpart for the first time ... http://mybusinesssurveys.com/loonie-loses-currency-wings-as-canada-hurt-by-us/