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Show FAGI 4 2tattD3lrrato fRIDAY, MARCH 21, BUSINESS EDITOR Ural Industry News & Notes Legal v- INC NEV ABSY ABSOLUTORY ABX BARRICK GOLD AEP AMER ELECTRIC AKj AMER INTL GROUP AMD ADV MICRO DEVICES AMGN BAC Amgenlnc BK Of AMERICA BAM BROOKE If ID CP 0.94 0 04 0.003 42.00 35 40.83 COMPANY SYM 16i0 0.15 0.55 MSFT 5.98 0.18 MMSI 0.56 MU MICRON 8299 MYGN Myriad Genetks, 6.11 0.04 NATR NATURES 40.11 0.16 NETM NetManage, CP 41.86 3.30 NOVL Novell. ASSFT 27.30 1.08 NUS NU SKIN ENT INC POW 45.0099 CP BU BALL BMY BRISTOL MYERS SQIBB 2 TECHNOLOGY 1.05 SUNSHINE 8.50 0.14 nc 3.75 0.03 6.17 18.99 0.15 0.12' 42.82 0.88 24.31 123 0 36 023 Inc. Inc 1.59 NWN NORTHWEST 21.46 0.00 OMTR Omniture,lnc NAT GAS 37.00 CP C CITIGROUP 22.50 2.09 PCG PG&E CMCSK 0.01 Q QWEST COST 18 83 Comcast Corporation Costco Wholesale Corp 63.42 2.53 RZ RASER CVX CHEVRON 83.21 1.32 SC0XQ SCO DAL DELTA AIR LINES NEW 10.00 0.43 SHLD DIS WAIT Sears Holdings Cor SMITHINTLINC DNEX Dionex ERIC LM Ericsson ETR ENTERGY CP FC FRANKLIN COVEY CO GE INC CORP 4.82 ' GROUP 0.11 0.00 103.87 6.34 20.91 0.34 INC 31.90 0.66 Sll 1.35 SKYW 17.98 0.59 SNT0 SENTO 105.55 0.72 STR QUEST AR 7.48 0.00 SY SYBASE INC GEN ELECTRIC CO 37.49 1.90 T AT&T HRB HR 21.09 0 77 TGT TARGET HSIC Henry 5743 0.58 TRV THE TRAVELERS IBM INTERNATIONAL B.M. 118.33 139 UDR UDR INC. INTC Intel Corporation JetBlue Airways Corp 21.75 0.6301 UNH UNITEDHEALTH JBLU 5.56 0.56 USB USBANCORP KP PENNEY J C CO HOLDIN 42.12 3.11 USEG U.S. JWN NORDSTROM 35.22 1.71 11.14 12,097.87 261.66 2258.11 Final 1329.51 48.15 31.09 Per ounce $919.60 -- $25.10 Per ounce $16,805 -- $1.49 Telephone BLOCK INC Schein, Inc INC LEE LEE ENTERPRISES LUV SOUTHWEST MCK MCKESSON MER MLCOCMNSTK AIRLINES CORP World cities cm Albany TODAY HiLo W 3820 S Albuquerque 68138 s Anchorage Atlanta 3222 s Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Billings Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston 7857 i Buffalo 3619 3216 2712 4618 6743 pc sf Chattanooga 7243 s Cheyenne pc sn Dallas 5023 3225 7047 5834 3824 3817 7549 Dayton! 5031 sh Denver Eugene 5626 pc 4029 'f 3524 sn 3014 c 7648 s 5232 c Evansville 6641 Burlington Caribou Casper Charlotte Chicago Chiston. 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City Omaha HIGHLAJM0,AOTN& March Normal Month To Date Yesterday Precip. 5735 0.08 0.17" 56733 0.00 Trace 5435 5331 5325 5734 5633 5727 0.20 Shown is Extremes " 5032 ttSSZS LEW SUNDANCE .w, . 'rMK-- V AMERICAN Normal Season To Date To Date 3.25 7.19 2 0.88 1.00 1.19 9.14 8.14 OREM 0.22 0.74 1.02 10.42 8.09 5331 1.04 0.60 1.01 9.98 9.15 0.17 0.71 10.96 6.39 5.14 " 0.21 0.51 10.86 1.58 " l.oo 0.23 today's weather. Temperatures , 3.75 faWtdN '!,' PAYSON t TREMONTON NATIONAL For J. the 48 f' contiauous states. v S - . High: 90 at Wink, TX Low: 0 at Embarrass, MN ' f v. " ? W23 - ' ' ' Tv 4726 V . . BRIGHAMCrTY Partly sunny 55 29 CQ 25 ; 5430-- ' 3ANTAQUIN .f 1 fJ? , ' MONDAY IJJ Mostly sunny tonight's lows. i: SATURDAY 2 FORK UTAH l Partial inchino SPANISH GENOLA High: 73 at St. George Low: 16 at Bryce Canyon Barnes & Noble boosted its dividends and surprised Wall Street with predictions of a profitable first quarter. Analysts said the nation's largest book seller would be the most likely suitor for Borders. SUNDAY to Sept. 30th highs and s . 5531 3.29 are today - 11.78 " 0.52 e FORK J.36 Trace st 5431 9.04 " booknation's second-largeseller said it was considering options including the sale of the company or certain divisions, and that it had lined up $42.5 million in financing to help it keep running through the year. "It's a crunch of three C's credit, capital and consumer spending," said Dan Ansell, a partner at Greenberg Traurig LLP and chairman of its real estate operations division. Despite its earnings slide, ' " 9 m Rainfall year: Oct. 1st COEUR D'ALENE 4526 $ pc s K ( . , I s. s s $ 5 C " JACKSON 3411 j CASPER 1 CARSONCITY ELY 5726 53722 V . f f . t-- J ) Partly sunny 32 ' 36 Across the U.S. 't4 '7 , TUCSON ' 8150 h9 State forecast h Partly sunny in the northeast and central parts today; mostly cloudy in the northwest. Sunny elsewhere. 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' , ' BLUFF' HAT" 7037 O' Press Borders book stores backing is required for borrowers who can't afford the be sold may traditional 20 percent down alBorders could DETROIT payment on a home, have victim of the latest become a the nearly quarter ready flagged of the nation's ZIP codes where credit squeeze, announcing Thursday that it may put itself they refuse to insure some . borrowers. Regional almanac las Vegas 7849 Miami INTL INC 0.53 KASTERAssoei'ated CAROLYN freezing. Those large firms averaged $ 13.4 billion in daily borrowing over the past week from the new lending facility. The report does not identify the Utah & The West sn Memphis COMMUN . benefits totaled 378,000 last week. That was an increase of 22,000 from the previous week and the highest level in nearly two months. k The average for new claims rose to 365,250, which Was the highest level since a flood of claims caused by the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes. - 1.59., WB s Louisville 34.52 W 7251 Angeles 0.23 ' 0.50 4131 City 35.32 GROUP 0.80 Juneau las Vegas 0.75 55.24 Jacksonville Kansas 25.51 1226 s Hamsburg Helena Indianapolis 1.38 .V 0.093 p( 3822 sn 4418 sf 3518 c 5033 pc 4323 sf Jackson, 47.79 Utah Medical Products 29.92 y-- s Bay 2.21 CO 0.74 pc sn Green 0.80 52.35 100 00 J1.S613 St 9849 1.0102 10.7181 100 00 SI S444 $1 9826 1.0239 10.7411 S 3521 Falls 0.45 36.85 Energy Corp. Health Sciences 28.68 c 6125 7044 Great 0.07 26.49 USANA s Flagstaff ' Fresno Grand Rapids CP 53.97 UTMD S Fargo Grand Junction 5831 INC 0.00 USNA pc s CP 0.09 0.08 sn sn ; 3.25 7146 S 5226 S 7248 S 5433 pc 4725 c 7449 s 3824 c 5329 pc 4226 S Brownsville SkyWest, Inc CORP THE DOLLAR Yen Euro d Corporation tu torn gleongCVtalitr EXCHANGING The Fed, in a bold move Sun- AT&T, Verizon win day, agreed for the first time airwaves auction to let big investment houses WASHINGTON The two get emergency loans directly Reports: Economy cell phone companies from the central bank. This largest more weakening dominated bidding in a record-settin- g mechanism, similar to one NEW YORK A rise in job- available for commercial banks government airwaves less claims and a drop in a key for years, got under way auction, according to results forecasting gauge provided the Monday and will continue for released Thursday. AT&T Inc. and Verizon latest evidence that the U.S. at least six months. It was the Wireless combined to account broadest use of the Fed's lendeconomy is faltering and may be supping into recession. for $16 billion of the $19.6 biling authority since the 1930s. lion bid in the auction, an AsGoldman Sachs, Lehman The Conference Board, a business-backesociated Press analysis of the Brothers and Morgan Stanley research said Wednesday they had Federal Communications Comgroup, said Thursday that its mission data shows. Verizon index of leading economic begun to test the new lending Wireless bid $9.4 billion and mechanism. indicators fell in February for AT&T $6.6 billion. the fifth consecutive month. The results raised concern The index, which is designed Leery lenders demand that the auction failed to atto forecast where the nation's more from borrowers tract any new competitors to economy is headed in the next Just when consumers and the cellular telephone market three to six months, dipped 0.3 to challenge the dominant comthe U.S. economy need banks percent to 135.0 in February after slumping 0.4 percent the to lend more freely, the mortpanies. month before. Google Inc. was not among gage industry is making it even for 7 harder to borrow the winners, meaning the In Washington, meanwhile, search engine giant will not be the Labor Department said that those with good credit. applications for unemployment : Mortgage insurers, whose entering the wireless business. 0.0299 7.6601 7323 Final fearful questions over the soundness of the financial system following the near collapse of Bear Stearns Cos. ended on a more upbeat note, thanks in part to the Federal Reserve's efforts to inject both liquidity and calm into the markets. 0 56 36.55 44.03 Final Friday. A week that opened with LAST CHANGE MERRILL LYNCH J Gold regional manufacturing report helped leaven stocks Thursday. The Dow Jones industrial average rose about 260 points on the day, giving the blue chips a gain of more than 3 percent for the week. Broader indexes finished the week with gains of 2 percent to 3 percent. The markets are closed for Good Merit Medical Systems 16.05 Microsoft Corporation 29.18 MtR-- S&P500 d Yesterday's performance of selected publicly traded companies 34.68 Nasdaq Bargain-huntin- Lake office at 170 South Main Street. Scharman, who has 26 years of banking experience, replaces Kareina Westlund, who was promoted to retail regional manager for U.S. Bank in Salt Lake City and Denver. LAST CHANGE Dow Jones y Silver NEW YORK manager Scott Scharman was promoted to district manager of retail banking for U.S. Bank in the Salt Lake City south district. Previously, Scharman had been operations manager for the Salt ALCOA INC V capped a week of remarkable volatility with a big advance Thursday that left stocks higher for the week but didn't silence all of investors' concerns about the economy and the financial system. U.S. Bank names new retail banking COMPANY A Stocks cap volatile week with big gains People On the Move AA A J9VQ NATIONAL BUSINESS BRIEFING Murray Energy unit fined for safety violations Andalex .Resources Inc., a Murray Energy unit, was fined $420,300 by the U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration for violations relating to "flagrant" fire and explosion hazards at the Aberdeen Mine in Price. Robert E. Murray, chief executive of Murray Energy, controls Andalex Resources, which operates the mine. "Mine operators that repeatedly violate mine safety standards must be held accountable for their actions," said Richard E. Stickler, acting assistant secretary of labor for mine safety and health, in a statement Thursday. According to MSHA inspection records, the mine operator allowed excessive accumulations of hydraulic oil, and fine coal particles covered the hoses, electric conduit and tram motors on electric equipment. SYM A -' leong 344 Gi 2008 9 6634 March 21: In 1957, more than 11 inches of snow were dumped on Santaquin. In 1973, fifteen inches of snow fell on the populated areas of Weber and Box Elder Counties; the heavy, wet snow knocked down nearly 20 miles of power and phone lines. In 2004, Provo hit a record high temperature of 81 degrees. er |