KING - News - Business http://www.king5.com/news/business RSS Feed for KING - News - Business en-us Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:07:34 GMT Port strike could move business elsewhere http://www.king5.com/news/business/Port-139060114.html The Port of Seattle says the strike by hundreds of truck drivers is having an impact and the movement seems to keeps growing. Obama budget: New spending with recycled tax ideas http://www.king5.com/news/business/139157164.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is focusing on re-election themes such as jobs and public works projects in President Barack Obama's new budget blueprint while relying on familiar but never enacted tax increases on the wealthy and corporations to reduce future deficits after four years of trillion dollar-plus shortfalls. Greece's grim choice: deep budget cuts or default http://www.king5.com/news/business/139152449.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Why would Greece accept more pain when unemployment is at 21 percent, the economy is enduring its fifth year of recession and rioters are hurling gasoline bombs in the streets of Athens? Unions expect right-to-work will cost them members http://www.king5.com/news/business/139154819.html INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — After losing their fight against right-to-work legislation, labor organizers are making a desperate bid on shop room floors and at union halls to persuade members to keep paying their union dues and avoid crippling labor's influence in Indiana. Obama budget seeks to boost trade enforcement http://www.king5.com/news/business/139155934.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's new budget proposal will ask Congress to devote millions of dollars for a new trade enforcement center and more U.S. inspectors in China as the administration takes aim at unfair trade practices abroad, a senior administration official said Saturday. NY cable dispute blacks out Knicks, 4 NHL teams http://www.king5.com/news/business/139152439.html NEW YORK (AP) — As the glow fades from the Giants' Super Bowl win, some New York sports fans are focusing on basketball and hockey. Under fire, Obama adjusts his birth control policy http://www.king5.com/news/business/139090594.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for birth control for workers, scrambling to end a furor raging from the Catholic Church to Congress to his re-election foes. He demanded that insurance companies step in to provide the coverage instead. Republic Bancorp founder Bernard Trager dies at 83 http://www.king5.com/news/business/139135664.html LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Officials say Bernard Trager, the founder and chairman of Republic Bancorp Inc., has died. He was 83. Justice Department calls Swiss Bank a "fugitive" http://www.king5.com/news/business/139124674.html NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department is calling Switzerland's largest private bank a fugitive from justice after it didn't show up for a court hearing in New York. Bank failures in Ill, Ind bring 2012 total to 9 http://www.king5.com/news/business/139128469.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Regulators on Friday closed small banks in Illinois and Indiana, increasing to nine the number of U.S. bank failures this year, a slower pace than in 2011, when there were 92 bank closures.