Main Street closes to host the 9th Annual
Craft Faire with over 100 artisans from all over the West featuring
pottery, woodwork, quilted and decorating items, dolls, garden items,
soaps, candles, jewelry, food, and much, much more. 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Historic Main Street, Placerville. Admission and parking are free. www.placerville-downtown.org For more information contact:
Placerville Downtown Association (530) 672-3436
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup and Merrill Lynch said they would buy back billions of dollars of illiquid auction-rate securities from retail clients, and Citigroup agreed to pay a $100 million fine to settle charges it fraudulently misled investors about the debt's risk.
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp said on
Thursday it expects to spend $900 million over the next few
years to adjust its manufacturing capacity, including closing
plants and reducing output.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc's 5 percent stake in Time Warner Inc's AOL unit may be worth less than the $1 billion the Web company paid for it in 2006, Google warned in a regulatory filing on Thursday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc says its new Marketside stores could expand to a chain of more than 1,000 stores with more than $10 billion in annual sales, the Financial Times reported, citing a job posting for the retailer, which the FT said was subsequently removed.
(Reuters) - Cablevision Systems Corp's top executives and its biggest shareholders are expected to meet next week as part of a campaign to patch up relations with Wall Street and test the waters for its strategic options, the Wall Street Journal said, citing investors and analysts.
Jul. 23 - The movie "Transformers" comes to Tokyo this week, a homecoming of sorts for the toy-robot film that earned over $260 million in three weeks in North America.
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