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Woodfield tourism bureau tries to woo back Palatine (Daily Herald)
A last-ditch effort by proponents of the Woodfield Chicago Northwest Convention Bureau didn't appear to sway Palatine officials into keeping their membership. "Honey, I shrunk the analysts" - Wall St toll mounts (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Securities analysts are being culled in large numbers on Wall Street -- and unlike in previous downturns, many of these jobs may never come back. Chrysler leaders get millions (USA Today)
As Detroit's crumbling auto industry asks Congress for a bailout, Chrysler is in the awkward position of paying about $30 million in retention bonuses to keep top executives while the company cuts thousands of jobs. CENTRAL NY BUSINESS NEWS (The Post-Standard)
• Nursing home fined in 'code blue' case The federal government has fined a Minoa nursing home $13,300 for failing to provide prompt emergency care to a choking resident who went into cardiac arrest and died. Students get insight into potential careers in cyberspace technologies (Winchester Star)
Winchester - Customized MySpace and Facebook pages can be the start of a career in Web site design and management. Council to vote on Dunnhumby tax incentives (BizJournals)
Cincinnati City Council will vote Wednesday to award job creation tax credits to Dunnhumby USA and a 12-year, 75 percent tax exemption for $9.3 million worth of renovations at its new headquarters at 444 W. Third St. Cricket wireless service launches in Milwaukee (BizJournals)
Leap Wireless International Inc., the parent company of Cricket Communications Inc., said Tuesday that it is launching its Cricket unlimited wireless phone and broadband Internet services in Milwaukee beginning Wednesday at plan prices from $30 to $60 a month. Tuesday November 18, 2008 (R News)
• Business Network Security Seminar The Henrietta Chamber of Commerce hosts a seminar on business computer network security Wednesday. • Local YTD Home Sales Down 15.8% The Greater Rochester Association of Realtors reported year-to-date existing single family home sales have dropped 15.8 percent compared to this time last year. INDEX:Advisories@ (INO News)
BUSINESS EDITORS:@ Here are Canadian Press Business budget lines as of 3 p.m. ET. Plans may change as circumstances warrant. Putnam Cuts 12 Money Managers as Assets Sink 39% (Update2) (Bloomberg)
Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Putnam Investments fired 12 money managers after assets fell 39 percent in the past year, joining Fidelity Investments and Janus Capital Group Inc. in contracting amid the steepest stock-market losses since the 1930s.
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