Copyright 2009 http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business en-us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:08:10 -0500 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:08:10 -0500 NBC Local Integrated Media http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Super-Bowl-Bound-Getting-Out-of-Town-Will-Cost-You-70379307.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:55:38 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*90/100809+land+shark.jpg
Major airlines squeeze blood from Super Bowl stone by adding $50 charge to day-after flights.

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Lloyd's of London wants a bigger piece of the Miami pie

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/entertainment/movies/This-Isnt-It-67094527.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:07:27 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*90/102709+This+Is+It.jpg
With movie and huge album sales, Jackson may be worth more in death than life. And that's bad...

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Miami-Dade-Growers-Make-a-Splash-With-New-Slogan.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:38:02 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*61/vegetables1.jpg
South Miami-Dade farmers want you to put some greens in their pockets

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/entertainment/television/Family-Guy-Breaks-Windows-66655962.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:56:40 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*65/031809+family+guy+p1.jpg
Microsoft's pullout as sponsor of raunchy special shows risks of melding comedy with commercials. Call it the Peter (Griffin) Principal…

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/White_Collar_Criminals.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:25:43 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*90/rajrajaratnam.jpg
White-collar criminals cost the United States more than $300 billion annually according to the FBI. Here are a few more names that may ring an alarm bell...

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/Marcus-Schrenker-Faked-Own-Death-Parachuted-Plane-Northwest-Indiana-Times-Exclusive-Jail-Interview-Bi-Polar-63963217.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:03:36 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*90/011409-Marcus-Schrenker-p1.jpg
The Indiana man who parachuted out of a plane to fake his own death speaks from his jail cell.

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/Study-More-Mustache--More-Money-63930997.html Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:01:59 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*90/102708-stache-jpg.jpg
A study performed by Quicken and the American Mustache Institute revealed that mustachioed men make more than their bearded and clean-shaven compatriots.

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/How-One-Man-Averted-an-Identity-Theft-Epidemic-63927072.html Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:54:57 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*79/shredder.jpg
A San Francisco landlord saddled with sensitive documents did the right thing.

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/around-town/cars/Hummer-Sold-For-150-Million-63874447.html Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:33:57 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*90/100909_HUMMER.jpg
Hummer, the gas-guzzling, muscular icon of the American road, has been sold to a Chinese heavy equipment manufacturer.

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/NATL-Senate-Dems-Extend-Unemployment-Benefits-for-14-Weeks-63790937.html Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:44:01 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*80/010609+unemployment.jpg
The number of people filing for unemployment insurance for the first time has dropped to its lowest level since January -- a positive trend that comes as Senate Democrats struck a deal to give workers an...

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Be sure to hit the facilities before takeoff.

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/Sex-Toy-Manufacturer-Sued-for-Stiffing-Workers-jw-63690287.html Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:52:17 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*90/22nd_and_tennessee.jpg
As anyone who's spent much time around the erotic entertainment industry knows, the reality of the business is much less sexy than the general public might imagine.

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/NATL-Arab-States-US-Allies-Plot-to-Ditch-Dollar-in-Oil-Sales-Report--63583952.html Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:58:57 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*90/kuwait+oil-640.jpg
Arab states held secret meetings with finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil in a plot to end the pricing of oil in dollars, a move that would likely stoke tensions...

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/around-town/shopping/Recessions-Silver-Lining-Low-Low-Prices-63515727.html Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:30:54 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*90/shopsales.jpg
There's a silver lining to the Great Recession: Prices on everything from coffee to cat food are falling to unheard of levels.

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/BofA-CEO-Scores-53M-Retirement-Package-63177372.html Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:23:55 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*87/ken+lewis.JPG
Ken Lewis, the embattled CEO of Bank of America Corp., is leaving the company after a year of strife that followed his bank's acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co., but it's not like he's going to be hard up for...

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/Recession-Pets-Food-Dish-Suffers-Last-62936907.html Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:04:29 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*90/Dog+Eating+Food+from+Dish.jpg
What's good enough for you isn't for your dog, according to a new study.

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/around-town/cars/NATLGM-Pulling-E-Brake-on-Saturn-Brand-62949207.html Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:12:50 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*68/saturn+man.jpg
General Motors announced Wednesday that it will no longer make Saturn vehicles after a deal to sell the popular brand to Penske Automotive Group Inc. fell apart.

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/health/Man-Sues-Froot-Loops-for-Not-Being-Frooty-at-All-62674757.html Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:56:19 -0500 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kl_paige/ /
Is froot the same as fruit? Roy Werbel thought so and now he is mad about it.

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Crackdown-Continues-on-TSAs-Luggage-Looters-62573027.html Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:53:19 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*90/092909+tsa.jpg
Between long delays, the lousy food and the even lousier in-flight movies, airline travel couldn't get much worse, unless you happen to be going through Miami, where TSA workers charged with making our skies...

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/Man-Sues-Bank-of-America-for--61903677.html Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:18:24 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*90/dr+evil+villain.jpg
Infuriated with Bank of America’s customer service, Dalton Chiscolm decided to do what every other red-blooded American in his situation would do: He sued them.

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/Politics----A-Very-Different-Beast-Than-Business-61486207.html Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:16:21 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*80/91026250.jpg
Former e-Bay CEO Meg Whitman and ex-Hewlett-Packard chief Carly Fiorina each get early wake-up calls for their initial forays into electoral politics.

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/Families-Make-Grave-Decisions-61249357.html Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:10:13 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*90/rsz_grave.jpg
The recession is partly to blame for a spike in the sale of burial plots at cemeteries and funeral-property web sites across the country.

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Here's a switch: After a year of bailing out the banking industry, the federal government may soon be going hat in hand to the nation's lenders.

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/NATL-Obama-Fundraiser-Charged-in-290M-Ponzi-60065562.html Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:41:37 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*90/hassan.jpg
Top Democratic fund-raiser Hassan Nemazee was charged Monday with engineering a $290 million fraud scheme that swindled money from finance juggernauts Bank of America, HSBC and Citigroup, U.S. officials said.

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/LA-Women-Open-Revenge-for-Hire-Business-59865512.html Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:19:47 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*90/Revenge+Plotting+Shhh+Finger+Lips.jpg
For those sick of doing their own dirty work, two Los Angeles women are here to help.

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Huizengas-Baby-Going-Bust-59776067.html Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:53:07 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*90/blockbuster.jpg
Blockbuster is stepping into the 21st century and getting rid of humans

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/Tweet-Success-59652862.html Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:39:08 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*90/Twitter-Me.jpg
Twitter, the San Francisco startup that lets Kanye tweet apologies and everyday people post their thoughts and doings, is about to become the latest billion dollar social networking site.

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/Cable-Guy-Wastes-Time-Money.html Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:30:44 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*90/CABLEGUY.jpg
That cable guy you wait for? His tardiness hurts your wallet, a new report says.

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/entertainment/celebrity/Facebook-59462937.html Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:51:52 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*80/20090203clooney146x97.jpg
George Clooney's no friend, but at least Facebook is finally making money for someone other than its 25-year-old gazzilionaire founder.

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/NATL-Bernanke-Recession-Is-Very-Likely-Over-at-This-Point--59337487.html Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:39:12 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*80/031909+Bernanke+P1.jpg
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said today the worst recession since the Great Depression has probably come to an end...

]]> http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/Money-Man-Under-Investigation-for-Ponzi-Scheme-Dies-59169567.html Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:09:12 -0500 http://media.nbcmiami.com/images/120*90/pang-640.jpg
A California financier accused of bilking his investors out of hundreds of millions in a Ponzi scheme to support a lavish lifestyle, Danny Pang, has died. He was 42.

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