Thursday, February 18, 2016

House approves $30 million to help pay Flint water bills and other top stories.

  • House approves $30 million to help pay Flint water bills

    House approves $30 million to help pay Flint water bills
    FILE- In a Jan. 27, 2016 file photo, Gov. Rick Snyder, left, stands beside Flint Mayor Karen Weaver as they prepare to field questions about the city’s water crisis during a press conference in Flint, Mich. Newly hired outside engineers have been given a month to find Flint’s underground lead water pipes, Snyder said Wednesday, Feb. 17, saying he wants service line replacements to begin promptly but not so quickly that it causes other problems. (Jake May/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP, F..
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  • House approves $30 million to help pay Flint water bills

    House approves $30 million to help pay Flint water bills
    FILE- In a Jan. 27, 2016 file photo, Gov. Rick Snyder, left, stands beside Flint Mayor Karen Weaver as they prepare to field questions about the city’s water crisis during a press conference in Flint, Mich. Newly hired outside engineers have been given a month to find Flint’s underground lead water pipes, Snyder said Wednesday, Feb. 17, saying he wants service line replacements to begin promptly but not so quickly that it causes other problems. (Jake May/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP, F..
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  • Venezuela releases dire economic data as measures seen insufficient

    Venezuela releases dire economic data as measures seen insufficient
    CARACAS Venezuela's central bank on Thursday released long-awaited data showing the depth of the OPEC country's recession, a day after President Nicolas Maduro announced a package of measures seen as insufficient to salvage the unraveling economy.Venezuela's fuel - the world's cheapest - will be increased in price for the first time in nearly 20 years and the complex system of fixed exchange rates has been devaluated and revamped.The fuel increase could amount to 5 percent of this year's budge..
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  • Unusual Social Activity Around Duke Energy Corporation (DUK) Today

    Unusual Social Activity Around Duke Energy Corporation (DUK) Today
    Trade-Ideas LLC identified Duke Energy Corporation ( DUK) as an unusual social activity candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Duke Energy Corporation as such a stock due to the following factors: DUK has 13x the normal benchmarked social activity for this time of the day compared to its average of 3.27 mentions/day. DUK has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $329.8 million. Identifyi..
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  • Porter Ranch gas leak permanently capped, state officials say

    Porter Ranch gas leak permanently capped, state officials say
    State officials on Thursday announced that the leaking natural gas well in Porter Ranch that spewed plumes of methane and other compounds into the atmosphere has been sealed."We have good news. The Division of Oil and Gas has confirmed that the leak in the Aliso Canyon storage field is permanently sealed," Jason Marshall, chief deputy director of the state Department of Conservation, said at a press conference in Chatsworth.   The news put an end to four months of foul air that sickened many re..
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  • Stocks slip; Walmart leads retailers lower

    Stocks slip; Walmart leads retailers lower
    NEW YORK - Stocks are inching lower Thursday after a three-day rally. Consumer stocks are sliding after Walmart reported disappointing results and cut its sales projections, and bank stocks are giving up some of their recent gains.The Dow Jones industrial average gave up 15 points to 16,439 as of 1:09 p.m. ET. The Standard & Poor's 500 index was down four points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,923. The Nasdaq composite declined 26 points, or 0.6 percent, to 4,508.The S&P 500 is up more than 5 percent ove..
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  • Is Saudi Arabia winning the war against shale? Kemp

    Is Saudi Arabia winning the war against shale? Kemp
    LONDON Saudi officials insist the kingdom's oil production strategy is not aimed at putting U.S. shale producers out of business, a message that has been repeated to visiting U.S. policymakers.The United States remains the kingdom's most important security partner, and Saudi officials do not want to be seen to be deliberately trying to halt the shale revolution.Rising domestic oil production is important to U.S. policymakers because it has given the United States a greater sense of energy secu..
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  • Engaged Capital lays out its Outerwall plan

    Redbox Parent Outerwall Faces Increased Investor Pressure to Go PrivateVariety
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Pinellas County 911 calls rerouted to St. Petersburg Police ... .Tow truck driver killed on Howard Frankland Bridge had pulled over ... .
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