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Silver Tsunami: Business opportunities growing
Posted 10:22 PM 5/18/2012 by Robin O'Day (KPAX News)
MISSOULA- The Montana State Plan on Aging says that by 2025 a quarter of the population in Treasure State and the growing number of seniors means a steady stream of business for some.
"There's a definite need in Missoula, we are growing by leaps and bounds. Our senior population is (More) • Video (1)
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Columbia Falls company has big plans
Posted 9:54 PM 5/18/2012 by Dax VanFossen (KAJ News)
COLUMBIA FALLS- A Columbia Falls company is building batteries as big as a Walmart building and business is booming.
Zinc Air of Columbia Falls has been developing a new generation of batteries to store electricity generated by wind power and to distribute it to the power grid on (More) • Video (1)
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Missoula company part of new wave in Western MT industry
Posted 2:27 PM 5/18/2012 by Dennis Bragg (KPAX/KAJ Media Center)
MISSOULA- A "zero waste chemical biorefinery" might not be the first business that comes to mind when you're thinking about Western Montana industry. However, Blue Marble Biomaterials is actually one of several new firms that are starting to carve out a niche on the cutting edge of Missoula (More)
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Montana's unemployment rate drops again
Posted 9:05 AM 5/18/2012 by Mark Thorsell (KPAX/KAJ Media Center)
HELENA- There's some good news on the job front in Montana as the state's unemployment rate dropped again in April, settling at 6.1% after remaining unchanged in March. That compares to the national jobless rate which sat at 8.1% last month.
"Over the past ten months, the number of people (More)
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Friday business briefs
Posted 8:44 AM 5/18/2012 by KPAX News Staff
This is the day Facebook gets a whole lot of new friends. The social media giant will offer its stock to the public this morning beginning at $38 a share. It will trade under the symbol FB on the NASDAQ exchange. The offering values Facebook at around $100 billion, making it one of the biggest (More) • Video (1)
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Gas price relief misses the West Coast
Posted 1:55 PM 5/17/2012 by Chris Isidore (CNNMoney)
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Gas prices are coming down for most of the nation, but not for Lynnae McCoy and other residents of the West Coast.
While supplies of gasoline are flush in much of the country, due to a combination of increased domestic production and reduced consumption, supplies are (More)
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Thursday business briefs
Posted 8:54 AM 5/17/2012 by KPAX News Staff
Commodities prices continue to slide as investors worry about a global economic slowdown. Crude oil settled below $93 a barrel for the first time more than six months and that's expected to send gas prices even lower as we near Memorial Day. Meanwhile, gold closed at a 10 month low of $1,547 an (More) • Video (1)
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Missoula Merc has more business in store
Posted 11:02 PM 5/16/2012 by Breanna Roy (KPAX News)
MISSOULA- The history inside the Missoula Mercantile is on the walls. It's also in the floors and on the ceiling. It just needs uncovering.
It was once one of the biggest draws to downtown Missoula: a department store where you could outfit everyone in your family and every room in your (More) • Video (1)
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Federal Reserve concerned about fiscal cliff
Posted 12:55 PM 5/16/2012 by Annalyn Censky, Karen McGowan (CNN)
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The Federal Reserve is worried about indecision in Congress.
At its last meeting in April, the central bank's top officials discussed how coming tax increases and spending cuts could weigh on the recovery, and debated whether the Fed should provide additional (More)
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MT will benefit from US-Colombia free-trade agreement
Posted 11:24 AM 5/16/2012 by Heath Heggem (KRTV Great Falls)
A deal that is expected to increase American exports by more than $1 billion was announced on Tuesday and the Free Trade Agreement between the U.S. and Colombia should leave its mark on Montana.
The agreement eliminates tariffs on products like wheat and barley, putting U.S. wheat farmers (More) • Video (1)
