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Show PACE 4 2MhtHcrotf SATURDAY, JULY 14, 2007 Grace Leong BUSINESS EDITOR I joeal Industiy News & Notes A A A V Dow Jones V Nasdaq S&P 500 Gold Silver Final Final Final Per ounce 13,907.25 45.52 2,707.00 1,552.50 4.80 Per ounce $665.80 -- $0.90 5.27 gleongheraldextra.com 344-291- THE DOLLAR EXCHANGING Yen Euro Pound Canadian dollar Mexican peso $13,011 -- $0,067 Friday Thursday 122.03 $1 3789 $2.0336 1.0476 10.7543 122.41 $1.3783 $2.0304 1.0469 10.7599 Job Fair UTA seeks bus operators, maintenance workers The Utah Transit Authority will hold a job fair on Tuesday to hire 25 bus k operators and up to 10 maintenance workers. Location: POTTER PATIENCE Mead-owbroo- Report: building, 3600 S. 700 West in Salt Administration Lake City. Time: p.m. UTA is seeking additional workers to handle new routes and services after its bus system underwent a $ 1.5 million expansion in Salt Lake County. Tuesday's job fair is part of a new recruitment advertising campaign, "Born to Drive." Successful job candidates can receive health, dental and vision insurance, vacation time and the opportunity to partici4-- 8 pate in I . Shoppers aware two different retirement programs. More information about UTA employment opportunities and the upcoming job fair can be found at www.rideuta.com or by calling (801) 287 JOBS. of prices People on the Move The Governor's Office of Economic Development named Tamara Goetz its state science advisor. Goetz served as director of the Salt Lake Community College Biotechnology Program for six years and helped to create educational programs for students in Utah. After receiving a three-yea- r Advanced Technology Education grant from the National Science Foundation in 2001, r Goetz helped to create a high school biotechnology program for juniors and seniors. The grant facilitated partnerships with school districts, industries and government entities, along with other biotechnology programs nationwide. nonAdditionally, Goetz led InnovaBio, a student-driveprofit contract research company that provides high school and college students with opportunities to work as interns for a life science company. Goetz also was involved in the U.S. Department of Labor's Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development Initiative, which promotes education and training for life sciences in Utah. She participated in the Governor's State Advisory Council for science and technology. G0ED names new science advisor Leslie Earnest LOS Alfredo Cardona of Santa Ana, 7 National briefing among SYM COMPANY LAST CHANGE SYM COMPANY LAST CHANGE 47.35 2.06 NATR NATURES 0.14 0.00 NETM 32.03 0.15 NOVL NetManage, Now Inc. 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GROUP Products 48.12 29.9901 1.88 O5499 41.76 033 CP 52.64 0.11 INTL INC 37.58 0.45 WELLS FARGO & CO NEW 35.54 0.10 WAl 49.15 0.32 6.65 0.05 116.10 1.69 COMMUN MART STORES SCHIFF NUTWT INTL UNITED STATES STEEL MSFT Microsoft Corporation 29.82 027 XEl XCEL ENERGY INC 20.98 023 MU MICRON 13.74 0.00 7JON Zons Bancorpotatoi 7823 0.19 MYGN Myriad Genetics, 39.77 0.18 TECHNOLOGY he con- : JIU1AN ROGERS Associated Press , dropped on average at department stores, but rose more than expected at warehouse stores. Sydney Bostian, 11, and Graham Toroff, 18, wait in line at Gulliver's Books on Thursday in Fairbanks, Alaska, for the seventh and final Harry Potter book. The Bostian sisters have been waiting outside the bookstore since July 10 and say they will stay there" until the book's release on July 21. Chloe Bostian, 18 left, HOLDINGO UT EQR James Halpin PRESS , orget piddling around a mere i . i few days for an lPhone, Two v sisters are in the midst of an 1 vigil for this summer's hottest, "must have" phenomenoa Chloe and Sydney Bostian started camping out Tuesday in front of Gulliver's Books in Fairbanks., Alaska, to be among the first Alaskans to find out their hero's fate in "Harry Potter and the - low-tec- Deathly Hallows." The seventh and final Harry Potter novel from author J.K. Rowling will be released at midnight, July 21. What sort of sorcery could make teenage girls live outside a bookstore for 11 days? "It's just so addicting. You think you "I think Council of Shopping Centers. "With a softer feel to the economy, there's been a shift to the discounters and wholesale clubs." Sales at stores open a year or more rose 2.4 percent to $71.3 billion, which was better than expected but down from last year's 3 percent gain, according to the shopping-cente- r council's tally of 50 major chain stores nationwide. Consumers are fretting over a variety of problems, retail experts say, including a slowing housing market and higher prices for food and gasoline. "You never know, am I going to put $50 in my car, or is it going have it all figured out and then everything switches up on you," said Chloe, 18. "It's the big finale, and all the questions are going to be answered." They have reserved four copies of the book, but the wait isn't about that. They wanted to beat their friend, Graham 18, to the front of the line. "He beat me once and I've been in line first ever since," Chloe said. "We're pretty week-to-wee- Tor-dof- f, tobe$35rsaidPhilRist, vice president of strategy for BIGresearch, a consumer intelligence firm that surveys ." The girls are living out of their parents' camper, parked in the bookstore's parking lot. During the day their parents who are taking turns staying' with them move it to the customer parking area, but at night it comes right up to the store entrance the front of the line. To help pass time, they browse the bookstore and friends bring them food so . See . POTTER, International Council of Shopping Centers it's a story of price," said Michael Niemira, chief economist for the International Fairbanks teens waiting in line for 1 1 days to get final book about the teen wizard THE ASSOCIATED Michael Niemira 8,000 shoppers a month. "The average consumer starts thinking, 'What's next? Maybe I just need to slow down a little bit.' " Maria Morales, a mother of six from Santa Ana, has found plenty of ways to trim spending. She buys shoes at Payless ShoeSource, food D3 See BARGAIN, D3 0.30 73.30 CO discounters and wholesale clubs." 157.4022599 Corporation 2238 HRB INC 42.41 Ericsson Telephone CP 0B 0.08 17.02 NUS 0.24 CP 7.51 46.07 0.31 ASSET MGT 0.95 43500124 69.55 INC 12.70 SUNSHINE there's been a shift to the sumers: Sales dot-co- Yesterday's performance of selected publicly traded companies economy, consciousness reco- Stocks of Local Interest a softer feel to the But retail .... Wall Street ended an extraordinary and rd-setting week Friday by surging higher again, sending the Standard & Poor's 500 index past a trading high set in March 2000 and thrusting the Dow Jones industrial past 13,900 for the first time. Both the S&P and the Dow logged record closes for the second straight day and the Dow's gains put the blue chip index within about 70 points of 14,000. But the technology-lade- n Nasdaq composite index lagged both in Friday's session as it has in the broader recovery from the collapse at the start of the decade. In a week that saw the Dow swing more than 450 points and rise 283 points in Thursday's session alone, investors grappled with unease over soured subprime loans and the broader economy before casting off such concerns and bidding stocks higher amid signs the consumer might yet again pull through and give Wall Street reason to climb higher. price. With experts also saw an increased price Wall Street rises again to record closes NEW YORK has always liked Thursday seeing evidence that the retail economy was not collapsing amid a nationwide housing downturn. Consumer confidence dips over jobs, gas prices AP-Ips- Calif., buying his clothes at Nordstrom, but lately he switched to Burlington Coat Factory, where the prices are lower. financial adThe viser said he now shops "anywhere you can save." And he's not alone. Retailers on Thursday posted moderate sales results for June as shoppers kept spending but tried to get more for their money. Wall Street celebrated "I think it's the sales a story of report with major gains one-yea- WASHINGTON Consumer confidence slid to its lowest point in almost a year as worries about job availability, high gasoline prices and the severity of the housing slump weighed on people's minds. The steep drop disappointed economists and raised fresh questions about consumers' appetite to spend in the months ahead; their spending is a major shaper of the country's economic health. The RBC Cash Index showed that confidence tumbled to 76.1 in July. That was considerably weaker than June's 81.4 and was the worst reading since last August. The index is based on the results from the international polling firm Ipsos. To a lesser extent, the deterioration in confidence also may have been influenced by concerns about terrorism and violence In Iraq, analysts said. "Consumers feel more pessimistic. There is a spreading sense of insecurity and concern," said Bill Cheney, chief economist at John Hancock Financial Services. The erosion in confidence comes as the public gave. President Bush a rating of just 33 percent in July, acpoll. On the economy, only 37 cording to a separate percent approve of his performance. Both figures are close to record lows. ANGELES TIMES Retail sales take sharp plunge; biggest drop since 2005 Friday. It was a far bigger setback than the flat reading that had been forecast. ConsumWASHINGTON Part of the weakness was seen as payback for a surprise ers put away their wallets on the upside in May, when in June, sending retail sales sales surged by 1.5 percent. plunging by the sharpest But the June decline also was amount in nearly two years. Sales of autos, furniture and ' viewed as an indication that consumers are cutting back building supplies all fell, highunder a barrage of higher lighting the economy's weak spots. prices and a recession in the The 0.9 percent drop in retail housing industry. "Consumers are increasingly sales was the biggest decline since August 2005, the Comcautious in the face of higher merce Department reported gasoline and food prices and Martin Crutsinger THE ASSOCIATED PRESS slowing home price gains," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com. ' Two gauges of consumer confidence gave conflicting signals Friday. The RBC Cash Index fell to its lowest point in nearly a year while the University of MichiganReuters survey rebounded to a high, an increase attributed to a temporary retreat in gasoline prices in late June and early July. Retail sales Total monthly retail sales, seasonally adjusted $374 375 Change from previous month 370 June .0.9 1.5 May 360 350 J i 1 SALES, D3 SOURCE. 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