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If a crisis leaves you on the receiving
end of Wisconsin football fans’ favorite chant, every detail of your response matters.
Most investors have heard the cautionary statement “past
performance is not indicative of future results.” This oft-repeated caveat reveals its truth time and again in the investment
industry.
I’m trying. I am really trying. That is why, a couple of Saturdays ago, when I could have been involved in some other leisure activity, I settled into my
easy chair and, instead, watched the U.S. team take on England in its World Cup soccer opener.
When the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research meets later this year or next, I believe
they’ll say the recession hit bottom in June or July of 2009. Recessions end when the economy bottoms out.
The “Investing” column of June 14, “Municipal bond defaults might be next crisis,” raises some valid
points, but portrays municipal bonds in such a manner that is too general.
Former Indiana University hoops star Eric Gordon has hired away his alma mater's strength coach to help him avoid injury
and improve his earning potential in the NBA.
BP franchisee Ricker Oil and Conner Prairie, whose balloon ride is emblazoned with the company logo, find themselves awkwardly
linked to the disastrous Gulf oil spill.
illainous image.
City government brought Circle Centre into this world. It makes sense, then, that city government is involved in positioning
it for the future.
U.S. health insurers are “moving towards an oligopoly,” a process that this year’s health-care overhaul
will accelerate, the investor-relations chief at WellPoint Inc. said Thursday.
One key change would grant patents to the first inventor to file an application, not the first who can prove to have made
the invention first.
Tim Durham, the Indianapolis businessman who purchased Akron, Ohio-based Fair Finance Co. eight years ago, is facing up to
the reality he owes the company a bundle and is shoveling over assets. Nevertheless, the FBI seized some Durham vehicles on
June 24.
Kiwanis International will back UNICEF with a $110 million campaign to eliminate tetanus in mothers and newborns, the Indianapolis-based
organization announced Thursday.
Democratic House Speaker Patrick Bauer says the administration of Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels should become more willing
to share budget information and other data.
Cummins Inc. designs and manufactures diesel engines for automotive and industrial markets.
Director Rob Reiner will be at Hilbert Circle Theatre in Indianapolis Aug. 2 for the premiere of his latest film, "Flipped."
The big-screen debut will be hosted by locally based Heartland Truly Moving Pictures.
Locally based consultancy LeadJen had 20 employees in January. Halfway through the year, the company already has hired 20
more, and President Jenny
Vance expects to add another 20 over the next six months.
Folks in Indiana felt the tremors from an earthquake that struck near the Ontario-Quebec border about 1:40 p.m. Wednesday.
The quake registered a magnitude-5.0, and it took just 150 seconds for the waves to travel 657 miles to Indiana. People in
Elletsville, Anderson, Indianapolis and Westfield all reported feeling the tremors.
Police say a woman with a gun forced her way into a western Indiana home and then stabbed a husband and wife in an apparent
attempt to kidnap their newborn boy. The man was able to stop the attack and call police to the home in the Vigo County community
of Prairie Creek on Wednesday. Sheriff Jon Marvel says 34-year-old Stephanie Foster didn't know the couple she attacked.
He said investigators believe Foster was faking a pregnancy and looking for a baby. She was jailed on preliminary charges
of attempted murder and kidnapping. The victims were treated for knife wounds at the hospital.
Crews resumed searching Thursday morning for a 19-year-old man who was swept away after falling into a rain-swollen creek near a western Indiana state park. Authorities say the teen fell into Sugar Creek and disappeared about 8 p.m. Wednesday at the northern edge of Shades State Park. Officials say the creek is normally about 2 feet deep, but was about 9 feet when the teen fell in.