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Corporate Earnings

Profit jumped 14 percent in the latest quarter, proof that cost-cutting and a push into rival IBM's stronghold of technology services is helping the company absorb a fall-off in sales in most of its major divisions. As a yardstick for the health of ...

From DENVER POST WIRE SERVICES, Denver Post,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: IBM,  Thomson Reuters

QVC set to join "Black Friday" frenzy with special offerings

Television retailer QVC, a unit of Douglas County-based Liberty Media Corp., has made aggressive plans to keep shoppers watchinginstead of mall-hopping — on Black Friday, an event that it has traditionally ignored. The leading network for TV shoppers ...

From DENVER POST WIRE SERVICES, Denver Post,  24 Nov 2009

CIT gets court OK to borrow $500 million

NEW YORK — CIT Group, the bankrupt 101-year-old commercial lender, won court approval Monday to borrow as much as $500 million to issue letters of credit that guarantee its debts. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper in Manhattan approved the loan from ...

From DENVER POST WIRE SERVICES, Denver Post,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: CIT GROUP INC,  Bank of America,  Bloomberg News

Delinquencies in credit cards rise

NEW YORK — Moody's Investors Service reported that U.S. credit-card delinquencies in October rose from the previous month for the third consecutive time, though charge-off levels continued to ease for a second straight month from a record in ...

From DENVER POST WIRE SERVICES, Denver Post,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dow Jones

Stafford, Johnson could miss Packers

ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Matt Stafford and Calvin Johnson played the game Sunday that Detroit Lions fans had been waiting all season to see. Stafford set an NFL rookie passing record with 422 yards in a 38-37 victory over Cleveland and became the youngest ...

From THE DENVER POST AND WIRE SERVICES, Denver Post,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Detroit Lions,  Jim Schwartz,  Calvin Johnson,  NFL,  Eric Mangini

NFL: Stafford, Johnson could miss Packers

ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Matt Stafford and Calvin Johnson played the game Sunday that Detroit Lions fans had been waiting all season to see. Stafford set an NFL rookie passing record with 422 yards in a 38-37 victory over Cleveland and became the youngest ...

From THE DENVER POST AND WIRE SERVICES, Denver Post,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NFL,  Detroit Lions,  Jim Schwartz,  Calvin Johnson,  Eric Mangini

MWC reprimands BYU duo

The Mountain West Conference reprimanded BYU defensive end Jan Jorgensen and assistant coach Barry Lamb for comments they made about Air Force. Jorgensen called the Falcons "legal, but dirty" and Lamb criticized Air Force for low cut blocks in a story ...

From DENVER POST STAFF AND WIRE SERVICES, Denver Post,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mountain West Conference,  Matt Pickens,  Drew Moor,  Colin Clark

Silverton Mountain expands its midweek days for skiing

It turns out there's a ski country application to that old proverb about a window of opportunity opening after another one closes. Only it's more like steep chutes opening when rolling groomers don't. In the aftermath of Purgatory/Durango's recent ...

From DENVER POST STAFF AND WIRE SERVICES, Denver Post,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jeremy Wright

"Crazy" stone throwers

Vernon Davis stepped onto the ice, fully confident he could conquer the sport of curling — or at the least be respectable. He is an NFL star, after all. Davis was recently recruited to help answer a question: Can just anybody step on the ice and give ...

From DENVER POST STAFF AND WIRE SERVICES, Denver Post,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Vernon Davis,  NFL

Giving back to fans

The outcome was so embarrassing that Wigan's players want to refund the cost of tickets to their fans. Wigan was routed 9-1 by Tottenham on Sunday, matching a league record for most goals scored by a team in a game. "We feel that as a group of players ...

From DENVER POST STAFF AND WIRE SERVICES, Denver Post,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mario Melchiot

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