<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://wcco.com/business/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>Minneapolis/St. Paul Breaking News, Weather, Video, Traffic and Sports for Minnesota from WCCO-TV</title><link>http://wcco.com/business</link><description><![CDATA[Minneapolis/St. Paul Breaking News, Weather, Video, Traffic and Sports for Minnesota from WCCO-TV]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:11:47 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Impoverished North Korea Airs 1st Beer Commercial]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/business/north.korea.beer.2.1072613.html</guid><link>http://wcco.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 22:19:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Retailers Cut Back Cities Confront 'Ghostboxes']]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/business/retailers.cities.ghostboxes.2.1072532.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/business/retailers.cities.ghostboxes.2.1072532.html</link><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of anxious shoppers watched as city officials used power saws to cut 2-by-4s during Home Depot Inc.'s ribbon-cutting ceremony for its 102,700-square-foot building center in Bismarck. Less than three years later, the home improvement retailer shuttered the underperforming store, leaving a big orange empty eyesore on the outskirts of town. 
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:11:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biden: We 'Misread' Depth Of Economic Woes]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/business/biden.economy.stimulus.2.1072259.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/business/biden.economy.stimulus.2.1072259.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Obama administration "misread" the depth of the economic troubles
it inherited and still expects more new jobs in the long term as the
spending pace from the $787 billion stimulus plan quickens, Vice
President Joe Biden said.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:26:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[States Set To Ring In Independence Day Sans Budget]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/business/States.budget.woes.2.1070361.html</guid><link>http://wcco.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[Suit Targets Mercury Pollution From Colorado Plant]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/business/Xcel.Energy.sued.2.1070205.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/business/Xcel.Energy.sued.2.1070205.html</link><description><![CDATA[An environmental group is suing Xcel Energy, saying the utility isn't
doing all it can to cut mercury emissions from a new coal-fired unit at
a Pueblo power plant.
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:45:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honeywell To Close Maple Grove Plant]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/business/honeywell.maple.grove.2.1069941.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/business/honeywell.maple.grove.2.1069941.html</link><description><![CDATA[On Thursday night, Honeywell announced it plans to close its Maple Grove plant. 
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:26:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ruth Madoff Asks For Fur Coat, Takes Straw Bag]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/business/bernard.madoff.victims.2.1068967.html</guid><link>http://wcco.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://wcco.com/business/older.workers.layoff.2.1069845.html</guid><link>http://wcco.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://wcco.com/business/obama.jobs.work.2.1068900.html</guid><link>http://wcco.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://wcco.com/business/stocks.wall.street.2.1068716.html</guid><link>http://wcco.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.
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