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Last week's headlines
Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport will be one of 20 busy airports nationwide that will get new runway traffic lights to help prevent aircraft collisions on the ground. The Federal Aviation Administration announced that over...Tags: Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Joseph Smith, Metal and Mineral, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Iron and Steel
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Dow off 29 in profit-taking after last week's big gains
From wire reportsWall Street turned in a mixed performance yesterday as investors watched the price of oil regain ground and decided to cash in some of their gains from the stock market's big rally last week. The tame session unfolded as oil rose on concerns that the...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Economic Sanctions, Banking, Sirius Satellite Radio Incorporated, New York Mercantile Exchange
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Provident ends loss streak
Sun reporterShares of Provident Bankshares Corp. gained 27 percent yesterday after the bank reported a $15.1 million second-quarter profit, snapping a six-month streak of losses linked to its real estate-related investment portfolio. The gain came as the largest...Tags: Inventories, Loans
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Provident reports $15.1 million second-quarter profit
Sun reporterBaltimore-based Provident Bankshares Corp. today reported a second-quarter profit of $15.1 million as it increased loans and took an $8.7 million gain on the sale of its shares in MasterCard. The earnings amount to 41 cents per share for the quarter...Tags: Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Mortgages
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The week ahead
Chicago TribuneMonday: -- Earnings: Genentech Inc.; M&T Bank Corp. Tuesday: -- December retail sales -- December producer price index -- November business inventories -- Earnings: Citigroup Inc.; Forest Laboratories Inc.; H.B. Fuller Co.; Intel Corp.; Linear Technology...Tags: Ameritrade Holding Corporation, Parker Hannifin Corporation, Citigroup Incorporated, International Business Machines Corporation, Earnings
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Laundering laws, terror policy hurt check-cashers
Sun reporterSome national and regional banks are dropping as customers check-cashing operations and other money-service businesses over concerns the firms aren't following federal guidelines meant to thwart money laundering and terrorist financing. Without banking...Tags: Financially Distressed Companies, Population, Terrorism, Organized Crime, Labor Legislation
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Once-hot stock option programs losing some luster
Sun StaffIt wasn't so long ago that stock options were the equivalent of corporate America's lottery. That still may the case be for a handful of Maryland executives. Among those who got mega-grants last year, Coventry Health Care Inc. CEO Dale B. Wolf...Tags: Martek Biosciences Corporation, CEO Pay, Corporate Officers, Employers, Employees
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Green eggs and ham, cats in hats
Sun StaffGov. Parris N. Glendening stripped off his suit jacket and sat cross-legged on the floor of an Annapolis restaurant Friday morning, surrounded by 33 first-graders in matching tall, red-and-white striped hats - a la "The Cat in the Hat." "When I was...Tags: Mount Washington, Corporate Officers, Lynn Anderson, Federal Hill, Charles Carroll
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Bankers are a bit nervous about 2001
Sun StaffA nervous banker is a good banker, and there are plenty of nervous bankers these days. After eight years of surging profits and rapid loan growth, bankers are worried this year that the slowing economy will result in more problem loans and a stunted...Tags: Heads of State, Banking, Corporate Officers, Federal Reserve, Bankruptcy
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