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	<title>State jobless rate dips to 7%</title>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 04:12:08 GMT</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[COLUMBUS &mdash; Ohio&rsquo;s unemployment rate fell slightly to 7 percent in April after being stuck at 7.1 percent the two previous months, according to state data released Friday.]]></description>
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	<title>Anheuser-Busch to buy C&G Distributing Co.</title>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 04:03:52 GMT</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[LIMA, Ohio &mdash; Anheuser-Busch has agreed to terms to buy C&amp;G Distributing Co. Inc. for an undisclosed amount.The Cecala and Guagenti families have owned and operated C&amp;G for more than 60 years. It has distributed Anheuser-Busch products in a nine-county area of west-central Ohio since 1967. Anheuser-Busch has operated a brewery in Columbus for more than 40 years. Since 1994, it also has operated of Canton.sA-B Sale]]></description>
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	<title>Sequester forcing IRS furloughs</title>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 04:02:44 GMT</pubDate>
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	<description>All Internal Revenue Service offices will be closed Friday, June 14, July 5, July 22, and Aug. 30 because of the sequester.</description>
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	<title>Unemployment falls in 40 states</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:48:29 GMT</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &nbsp;&mdash; Solid hiring helped lower unemployment rates in 40 U.S. states last month, the most since November. The declines show the job market is improving throughout most of the country.]]></description>
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	<title>Economic news boosts trading</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:12:53 GMT</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;Encouraging news about the U.S. economy helped push stock prices higher on Wall Street today.]]></description>
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	<title>Obama visiting Baltimore today</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:33:11 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Ohio jobless rate down in April</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:54:30 GMT</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[COLUMBUS &nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;Ohio&rsquo;s unemployment rate fell slightly to 7 percent in April after being stuck at 7.1 percent the two previous months, according to state data released today.]]></description>
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	<title>Auditor OKs employee raises</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 03:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Lucas County Auditor and mayoral candidate Anita Lopez, who blasted proposed pay hikes for city councilmen and Toledo&rsquo;s mayor, approved raises for her employees under a new union contract and under a wage reopener with another union in her office.]]></description>
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	<title>Ohio groups long ago sounded alarm on IRS</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 04:30:57 GMT</pubDate>
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	<description>Conservative Ohio groups more than a year ago raised the alarm that the Internal Revenue Service was holding up their applications for tax-exempt status, leading Ohio U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Urbana) to request the audit that led to the IRS's admission that it targeted Tea Party-related groups for close scrutiny.</description>
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	<title>Jobless claims jump higher</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 14:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &mdash; The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose 32,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 360,000, the most since late March. The jump came a week after applications had reached a five-year low.]]></description>
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	<title>400 meet employers at job fair</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 01:36:45 GMT</pubDate>
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	<description>Raymond McGowan said he came to a Tuesday job fair in Perrysburg feeling good. He left feeling great.</description>
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	<title>CSX looking into terminal expansion</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 01:41:18 GMT</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[CSX Transportation has asked for Wood County&rsquo;s support if it applies for a federal grant to pay half the cost of a proposed $42 million expansion of the railroad&rsquo;s intermodal terminal in North Baltimore, a railroad spokesman said Tuesday.]]></description>
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	<title>Stock indexes recover from slide</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 17:28:39 GMT</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &mdash;&nbsp;The stock market continued its climb today, despite a handful of disappointing economic reports.]]></description>
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	<title>Anchorage's Quarter Pounder costliest</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 19:03:13 GMT</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[JUNEAU, Alaska &mdash; Residents of Alaska and Hawaii always suspected they pay higher prices, and now the hamburger proves it.]]></description>
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	<title>Eurozone recession continues</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 14:32:14 GMT</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[PARIS &nbsp;&mdash; The recession across the economy of the 17 European Union countries that use the euro extended into its sixth quarter &mdash; longer than the calamitous slump that hit the region in the financial crisis of 2008-9.]]></description>
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	<title>U.S. wholesale prices fall 0.7%</title>
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	<title>Savings, loans rates: 5/14</title>
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	<title>Pro-Tec Coating in Leipsic adds steel</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[LEIPSIC, Ohio &mdash; Officials with Pro-Tec Coating Co. say they are now able to process new grades of steel in Leipsic that will play an integral role in helping the world&rsquo;s automakers meet the challenge of building cars that are both lighter and stronger, providing drivers with better fuel economy and improved safety.]]></description>
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	<title>Leipsic's Pro-Tec finishes expansion</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[LEIPSIC &mdash; Pro-Tec Coating Co. has completed construction of a new line at its steel processing plant here that will allow the company to turn out new grades of especially strong, lightweight steel.]]></description>
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	<title>Business inventories unchanged</title>
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	<comments>http://www.toledoblade.com/Economy/2013/05/13/U-S-business-restocking-flat-in-March-while-sales-fall-1-1-percent-largest-drop-in-9-months.html#comments</comments>
	<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:21:42 GMT</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &mdash; U.S. businesses left their stockpiles unchanged in March for a second straight month while their sales fell sharply.]]></description>
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