http://www.fwbusinesspress.com Breaking News brought to you by Fort Worth Business Press Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:59:13 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/images/fwbp_logo.jpg http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/index.php http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11424 A Texas Commission on Environmental Quality division director said the third of four short-term air quality monitoring tests currently is being conducted in and around Fort Worth to determine if there are abnormally high... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11424 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11423 Fort Worth-based D.R. Horton Inc. reported on Nov. 20 a net loss of $231.9 million, or 73 cents per diluted share, for the fourth quarter ended Sept. 30. The net loss for the same quarter of 2008 was $799.9 million, or... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11423 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11422 The University of North Texas System Board of Regents voted today to continue planning for a new allopathic medical school at the UNT Health Science Center campus in Fort Worth. The campus, which already is home to one... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11422 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11421 Texas’ unemployment rate rose .1 percent in October, while adding 41,700 non-agricultural jobs with significant increases in professional and business services, and education and health services industries. The... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11421 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11418 Fort Worth Business Press health care reporter Elizabeth Bassett is tweeting live from the University of North Texas Board of Regents meeting in Denton. Find out what’s being said about the proposed M.D. program at the... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11418 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11420 Wells Fargo’s economics team expects holiday retail sales to decline .8 percent this year, marking the first back-to-back declines since records began in 1993. The team, in a report issued Nov. 19, expects consumers to... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11420 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11414 Grapevine’s GameStop Corp. released its third quarter financial results Nov. 19 for the period that ended Oct. 31. Quarterly sales were up 8.2 percent to $1.83 billion compared to last year’s quarterly sales of $1.70... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11414 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11413 First Financial Bank Weatherford announced Nov. 17 it will open its first branch in Fort Worth in the former Bombay headquarters building at 550 Bailey Ave. The bank will operate from the company’s existing First Financial... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11413 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11412 Electronic interconnect product provider A.E. Petsche Co. is set to be acquired by Arrow Electronics Inc. for an undisclosed amount, the two companies announced Nov. 17. Arlington-based A.E. Petsche is a provider of... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11412 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11411 Officials at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History officially lit the lantern Nov. 16 that tops the newly renovated and expanded building, set to officially open Nov. 20. The new 166,000-square-foot, $80... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11411 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11410 It’s not unusual to see various military aircraft cruising over Cowtown, and over the weekend Fort Worth had one of the next generation of jets fly its skies. Lockheed Martin’s conventional takeoff and landing version... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11410 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11409 Devon Energy Corp. will divest its offshore and international assets to focus solely on its North American operations, a move aimed at bringing the Barnett Shale’s largest gas producer cash during a difficult time for... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11409 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11408 Hotel giant Marriott International Inc. plans to make more than 40 of its properties across Texas more energy efficient thanks to a partnership with Dallas-based TXU Energy, the company announced Nov. 16. TXU recently... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11408 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500