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The Providence area ranked 94 out of the 102 metropolitan areas across the United States ranked on the American City Business Journals’ November 2012 On Numbers Economic Index.
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By PBN Staff
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Oil declined for a second day in New York amid speculation that U.S. crude inventories rose last week and after the International Energy Agency cut its forecast for global demand growth this quarter.
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By Ben Sharples and Sherry Su |
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Founder and designer of Cranston-based jewelry maker Alex and Ani LLC Carolyn Rafaelian has purchased Belcourt Castle in Newport for $3.6 million.
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By PBN Staff
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The Warren Group has revised its September Massachusetts foreclosure start figures, acknowledging that the totals it initially released were incomplete.
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By PBN Staff
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In light of Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee’s establishment of a $1 million emergency loan fund to assist Rhode Island businesses affected by Hurricane Sandy, the R.I. Economic Development Corporation will meet with businesses to determine if they qualify for loans from $10,000 to $25,000.
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By PBN Staff
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Sales at U.S. retailers probably fell in October for the first time in four months as consumers in the Northeast stayed away from auto dealers and shopping centers before and after superstorm Sandy, economists said before a report this week.
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By Alex Kowalski |
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At a time when small and simple are fashionable, the owner of the
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Rhode Island Mall, which has been vacant since April 2011, has new owners: Winstanley Enterprises LLC of Concord, Mass. and New York-based Surrey Equities LLC.
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By PBN Staff
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AAA Southern New England has projected a 0.7 percent rise in Thanksgiving holiday travel, the fourth consecutive year of increases since holiday travel fell 25 percent in 2008.
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By PBN Staff
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Rhode Island’s unemployment rate fell to 10.4 percent for October, a drop of one-tenth of a percentage point from September, as the state gained the largest number of employed in one month since 1976.
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By Rebecca Keister |