Business
Tiny Hi-Line business stays busy making Norwegian flatbread to meet holiday demand
OPHEIM — This place smells of hot butter and heavy cream, of earthy red potatoes, heated milk and traces of bread flour searing on a hot grill as comely Montana farm women turn thin rounds of Norwegian tradition with sticks.
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Have you heard:Work moves ahead on building senior housing facility in Heights
Work is progressing nicely on the $6.4 million, 65-unit senior housing facility off Wicks Lane in Billings Heights.
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Entrepreneurs: Billings innovator sees sunny days ahead
As energy costs keep rising, mooching off the sun is starting to look better and better.
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Marketing lines blur in blogosphere
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Consumers researching a product online can find a trove of insightful reviews and revealing complaints. Or, they can get mired in a snake pit of fake blogs, paid testimonials and word-of-mouth campaigns engineered by marketers posing as consumers.
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Companies make plans for dealing with flu outbreak
CHICAGO — For under-the-weather workers, the decision to stay home or push through a day at the office always has been a hand-wringing one. Now, concerns over H1N1 flu, coupled with a lean economy, are putting workers’ sick-leave dilemmas under the microscope.
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Crops come in close to expectations
BISMARCK, N.D. — Newly released estimates for U.S. wheat, corn and soybean crops may put to rest fears that a wet harvest season in many parts of the country could cut into production.
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Business Digest
The Billings Chapter 100 of the American Society of Women Accountants will hold its monthly lunch meeting at noon Wednesday at the Yellowstone Art Museum. Ed Jensen of Weber Dobson & Jensen PC will do a short presentation on 1031/Installment Sales/Gain on Repossession…
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From the Wire
- J.M. Smucker 2nd-quarter profit soars on coffee New
- Regulators shut small Florida bank New
- D.R. Horton sees 26 perecent spike in 4Q orders New
- Chase drops arbitration from card contracts
- AP changes roles for 6 news editors, 4 photo eds
- Stocks fall for 3rd day as dollar strengthens
- More states add jobs, but many for temporary staff
- Natural gas plunges 12 percent this month
- ALL BUSINESS: Economics 101, by way of toy hamster
- Trichet: time to withdraw some support measures
- Vivendi inching closer to decision on NBC
- EU extends Oracle/Sun review deadline until Jan 27
- Gap profit up 25 pct in 3Q as Old Navy recovers
- GM to release plan for European units in December
- Oil moves down near $77 amid economic uncertainty
- European markets push higher ahead of Trichet
- Volkswagen board moves closer to Porsche merger
- China raises nonresidential electricity rates
- Japan warns that deflation can drag on recovery
- Taiwan firm uses recycled paper in shoemaking
- S. Korean minister nixes new US trade negotiations
- To lower interest rates, Citi customers must spend
- Dollar gains as homeowners, job-seekers struggle
- GM analyst predicts solid November US sales
- Treasury to sell warrants as 3 banks exit bailouts
