<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://wbztv.com/business/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>Boston Weather, Breaking News and Sports from WBZ-TV</title><link>http://wbztv.com/business</link><description><![CDATA[Boston Weather, Breaking News and Sports from WBZ-TV]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMIX, CBS Corporation. All rights reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:04:25 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Impoverished North Korea Airs 1st Beer Commercial]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/business/north.korea.beer.2.1072613.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/business/north.korea.beer.2.1072613.html</link><description><![CDATA[In an apparent first, North Korea -- a country that struggles to feed
its 24 million people -- has aired a beer commercial on state
television.
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:01:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Initial Bids Due This Week To Buy The Boston Globe]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/business/boston.globe.bids.2.1072367.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/business/boston.globe.bids.2.1072367.html</link><description><![CDATA[A deadline is approaching for the possible sale of The Boston Globe. The New York Times Co., which owns the Globe, has set a Wednesday deadline for initial, nonbinding bids.
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:18:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NH Tourism Takes Beating From Weather, Recession]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/business/new.hampshire.tourism.2.1070664.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/business/new.hampshire.tourism.2.1070664.html</link><description><![CDATA[Hampton Beach businesses are hoping that this holiday weekend will help give a much needed jumpstart to kick off the summer season. 
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:44:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[States Set To Ring In Independence Day Sans Budget]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/business/States.budget.woes.2.1070361.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/business/States.budget.woes.2.1070361.html</link><description><![CDATA[Several states are facing the prospect of government shutdowns and program cuts as they enter the first weekend of the fiscal year and July Fourth holiday without a budget in place. <br />
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:36:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ruth Madoff Asks For Fur Coat, Takes Straw Bag]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/business/bernard.madoff.victims.2.1068967.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/business/bernard.madoff.victims.2.1068967.html</link><description><![CDATA[Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's wife asked to stay in her $7 million Manhattan penthouse and wanted to take a fur coat with her before federal marshals seized the property. A federal official informed of Ruth Madoff's departure from her apartment Thursday tells The Associated Press that when marshals said she couldn't take her coat, she left carrying just a straw bag.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:32:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Market Tough For Older Workers Post-Layoff]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/business/older.workers.layoff.2.1069845.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/business/older.workers.layoff.2.1069845.html</link><description><![CDATA[Like many unemployed older workers, 64-year old Allan Kellum fears his age has made it harder to find a new job. At a recent job fair, Kellum expressed interest in a supervisory role coordinating an international health assistance program. A recruiter set him straight: "The people applying for that are young." <br />
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:00:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama: More Work Needed To Create New Jobs]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/business/obama.jobs.work.2.1068900.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/business/obama.jobs.work.2.1068900.html</link><description><![CDATA[With joblessness rising, President Barack Obama said Thursday he was
"deeply concerned" about unemployment and conceded that too many
families are worried about "whether they will be next" to suffer
economically.
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:24:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jobless Data Sends Stocks Reeling; Dow Loses 223]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/business/stocks.wall.street.2.1068716.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/business/stocks.wall.street.2.1068716.html</link><description><![CDATA[A dour report on job losses in June sent stocks sharply lower Thursday. Major
stock indexes fell more than 2.4 percent after the government said the
U.S. unemployment rate hit a 26-year high. European markets also
dropped following similarly disappointing data on unemployment in the
16 countries that use the euro currency.
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:24:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unemployment Hits 26-Year High: 9.5 Percent]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/business/unemployment.jobless.claims.2.1068559.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/business/unemployment.jobless.claims.2.1068559.html</link><description><![CDATA[Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate climbed to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent. Workers also saw weekly wages fall, suggesting Americans will have little appetite to spend and the economy's road to recovery will be bumpy.
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:25:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Auto Sales Showing Signs Of Improvement]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/business/auto.sales.ford.2.1068235.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/business/auto.sales.ford.2.1068235.html</link><description><![CDATA[After a yearlong free fall in the American car market, the decline of sales slowed in June, offering hope to automakers that the bottom has been reached and more shoppers may slowly start returning to showrooms soon. Still, sales were down 7.1 percent from May, which generally is a stronger sales month. Overall, automakers sold 859,847 vehicles in June, a 28 percent drop from the same month last year, according to Autodata Corp.<br />
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