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- Profits at T. Rowe Price Group Inc. increased 23 percent for the three-month period that ended last month, as a rising stock market pushed the amount of client money managed by the firm to a record high.
- The firm hired by Fannie Mae to maintain vacant, foreclosed properties in the Baltimore area systematically neglects homes in non-white neighborhoods, according to a discrimination complaint filed Tuesday with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
- Toni R. Killefer, a former preschool teacher who was a longtime supporter of breast cancer research and was a mentor to cancer patients, died of Monday of metastatic breast cancer at her Stevenson home. She was 49.
- A company that helps nonprofits raise money has landed a $10 million investment and is acquiring Baltimore-based competitor GiveCorps for an undisclosed sum.
- Safeway Inc.'s announcement Thursday that private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management would acquire the company in a deal valued at about $9.4 billion is the latest sign from the troubled grocery industry that supermarkets have fallen out of style.
- Legg Mason Inc. has agreed to acquire QS Investors, a New York-based investment firm with $4.1 billion in assets under management and nearly $100 billion in assets under advisory.
- The 'Bmore Gives More' campaign exceeded its $5 million one-day fundraising goal as part of the national #GivingTuesday movement, GiveCorps announced Wednesday.
- One California city's controversial plan to use eminent domain to reduce the number of underwater mortgages has caught the eye of some Baltimore leaders, who say the city might benefit from the program too.
- A failure to make bond payments may influence investors' scrutiny of MEDCO, a company created by the General Assembly to aid economic development through Maryland, it will not affect the state's credit rating, experts say.
- Mayo A. Shattuck III, who helped sell two Baltimore institutions to out-of-state concerns and ran the region's energy firm for a volatile decade, has retired from the parent company of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.
- Gregory H. Barnhill, a career investment banker who embraced and promoted civic projects and charities, ended his life Friday evening in Baltimore County. He was 59 and lived in Stevenson.
- The following are Harford County real estate transfers recorded in January 2012 and compiled by the Harford office of the Department of Assessments and Taxation:
- You're likely part of the largest financial scandal in the world today if you have adjustable rate mortgage or a private student loan.
- Why Dodd-Frank needs to be extended to the foreign branches of big U.S. banks
- Sun coverage of Union Square protest is light on crucial information
- The Berlin family wants to continue to curate the selection the Ivy Bookshop is known for, but expand online presence
- The Ivy bookshop in north Baltimore will have new owners in January: Ann and Ed Berlin.
- As the Occupy movement protests corporate culpability in the recession and unemployment crises, the merger of Constellation Energy and Exelon Corp. provides some fodder.
- Jimmy Dailey didn't enter the collegiate lacrosse world from a prestigious program. But when he closed his college career last month, the Winters Mill High School graduate left with one of the highest honors in the sport. The Stevenson University attackman was named the winner of the Iroquois National Award as the outstanding player in NCAA Division III by the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association.
- The announcement this week that Chicago-based Exelon Corp. has struck a deal to take over Constellation came as something of a psychic blow. If the $7.9 billion deal is approved, and the parent of local utility BGE is absorbed , then Baltimore will lose its sole remaining Fortune 500 headquarters.