Lemke & Pederson

07/12/2011

The Rangers' bankruptcy might be worth celebrating, but Tom Hicks is no hero.

07/12/2011

07/12/2011

Regulators have shut down a bank in Illinois and one in Colorado, boosting to 50 the number of U.S. bank failures this year.

07/12/2011

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpps/money/us-struggles-with-problematic-tax-policies-dpgonc-km-20110710_14059111

As bipartisan efforts to reduce the US federal deficit by $4 trillion over the next decade reached an impasse this weekend over the issue of taxes, ideas for closing the government's yawning fiscal deficits were getting more creative and complicated, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

07/12/2011

The City of Fort Worth will help launch a new career skills center to help those unemployed become more marketable.

07/12/2011

Alcoa marked the unofficial beginning of second quarter earnings season Monday by missing analysts' earnings-per-share (EPS) estimates but beating revenue expectations handily, sending shares up slightly in after-hours trading.

06/28/2011

Patricia Kluge, the onetime pin-up girl who became known as the wealthiest divorcee in history, filed for personal bankruptcy protection in a Virginia court, the New York Post reported Wednesday.

06/28/2011

US applications for unemployment compensation rose by 9,000 to a seasonally adjusted 429,000 in the week ended June 18, the Labor Department said Thursday, pointing to persistent weakness in the jobs market.

06/28/2011

Financial authorities on Friday closed Mountain Heritage Bank of Clayton, Georgia, marking the 48th bank failure of 2011, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said.

06/28/2011

The percentage of mortgage applications rejected by America's largest lenders increased last year, spotlighting how banks' cautious lending practices are hampering the nascent housing market recovery, The Wall Street Journal reported in its Saturday edition.

06/28/2011

Two top congressional Republicans said Sunday that Congress will not approve a deficit-reduction package that includes tax increases, reiterating a stand as President Barack Obama joins talks on the issue this week.