Tennessee-based Community Health Systems Inc. is acquiring MetroSouth Medical Center in Blue Island, adding to the companys roster of hospitals in Illinois and the Chicago area. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. In a Monday statement, Community Health Systems said it expects the acquisition to be finalized in the first quarter of 2012. MetroSouth [...]

The Federal Reserve will probably revise its pledge to keep interest rates close to zero through mid-2013 as the need for large scale asset purchases diminishes, according to economists in a Bloomberg News survey. The Fed will alter the interest rate commitment before June, according to 64 percent of economists surveyed, with 51 percent saying [...]

LONDON Dec 13 (Reuters) – The ECB was buying Italian government bonds in the secondary market on Tuesday, traders said. Ten-year Italian government bond yields were off their highest levels of the day, last 13 basis points higher at 6.73 percent. The traders said the ECB was buying Italian paper with a maturity of less [...]

Buying used or refurbished may not seem like the best way to get a new laptop, but a real gem can be found for the right price. Since the cycle of new lap-top launches is so frequent now, pre-owned or refurb bargains are easier to find. Whos selling? Used laptops are available in abundance on [...]

Robin Wauters currently works as a staff writer for TechCrunch and lead editor of Virtualization.com. Aside from his professional blogging activities, hes an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in Belgium, a tiny country in Europe. He can often be found [...]

President Barack Obama wants to spend the next year talking about economic inequality. Republicans shouldn’t take the bait. In a speech last week in Kansas, the president presented rising economic inequality as the defining issue of our time. As is often true of political speeches, Obama didn’t make anything resembling a tight logical case. Instead [...]

A man going door-to-door trying to sell magazine subscriptions was arrested Friday for soliciting without a permit, according to the Lee County Sheriffs Office. Michael Moorefield was arrested for soliciting without a permit on Shaddellee Lane in south Fort Myers. The sheriffs office report indicates Moorefield told one resident he was in the military and [...]

Tweet Link this Share this By Rujun Shen and Siddesh Mayenkar SINGAPORE/MUMBAI (Reuters) – A sharp drop in bullion prices prompted some buying interest on Asias physical market, but many remained reluctant to purchase large quantities as the year end approaches and the euro… Email Print

You wouldn’t leave your apartment in a snowstorm in flip-flops, would you? Don’t make your car try to go the distance in tires unsuited for winter, either. NYC streets are brutal in some places, and the right tires may save you money, time and heartache. Here’s a guide to the basics. *Understand why snow tires [...]

France’s Coeure Says ECB May Have to Step Up Bond Buying Program December 14, 2011, 7:15 AM EST Business Exchange E-mail Print More From Businessweek Euro Crisis Shows Dutch Converge With Germany at French Expense EU Leaders Drop Demands for Investor Write-Offs in Bailouts Cameron Go-It-Alone on Euro Can’t Cut Britain Adrift From EU Basel [...]