Santander plans to cut 1900, or 8%, of UK jobs (at MarketWatch

Santander plans to cut 1,900, or 8%, of U.K. jobs (at MarketWatch) and Investors Bancorp Announces Acquisition of American Bancorp of New Jersey (PR Newswire)
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5 Tips To Setting Online Home Business Goals Effectively

When it comes to having success online and staying motivated, setting
is essential. If you have goals to strive toward, you will find yourself doing whatever you can to achieve them. Here are five tips to setting online business goals effectively.
1. Short term goals
The first thing you want to do is set short term goals to work toward. This can be something like getting your first customer within the first two weeks or generating a certain Read the rest of this entry »

Narrow Miss for Gomez in Earnings Chase

Date Posted: December 31, 2008
Last Updated: December 31, 2008
Garrett Gomez made a valiant effort to break the record for purse earnings in a year when he won with his first three mounts at Santa Anita Dec. 31. But in the one race he had to win, the $76,400 Kalookan Queen Handicap, the 2007 Eclipse Award-winning jockey finished third aboard Baroness Thatcher.
That left Gomez, who turns 37 on New Year's Day, with $23,344,351 in earnings, $10,609 Read the rest of this entry »

California City Shuts Down for 2 Weeks to Save Money

Tuesday, December 23, 2008
WATSONVILLE, Calif. —  The Central Coast city of Watsonville is temporarily shutting down many services and laying off employees for two weeks to save money amid declining revenue.
The closure, which started Monday, was approved by the city council earlier this month to help reduce a $561,000 deficit for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009.
The holiday shutdown includes libraries, recreation programs, street Read the rest of this entry »

Jacobs Receives Program Management Contract From The Port of

Any statements made in this release that are not based on historical fact are forward-looking statements. Although such statements are based on management's current estimates and expectations, and currently available competitive, financial, and economic data, forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain. We, therefore, caution the reader that there are a variety of factors that could cause business conditions and results to differ materially Read the rest of this entry »

More delays ahead for Commerce Square

 BURLINGTON CITY— Members of the City Council must decide this month if they are willing to give a development company another 10 months to find tenants for a planned office complex in the city's Commerce Square industrial park.
Even if the council decides to retain the Ventnor-based New Vistas Corp. as the project developer, construction on the 20-acre site south of the Burlington-Bristol Bridge likely will be delayed until 2010 because of environmental Read the rest of this entry »

Commerce Group pays $8.8 million for Gilbert offices

, an insurance company that writes property and casualty insurance in 16 states including Arizona, paid $8.76 million for a 58,194-square-foot office building in Gilbert.
The Webster, Mass., company, a subsidiary of Mapfre International, a division of Mapfre SA of Spain, moved into the facility at 1555 N. Fiesta Blvd. earlier this month.
Kit Tiedemann and David Barrett of CB Richard Ellis’ Phoenix office represented The Commerce Group in Read the rest of this entry »