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The U.S. trade deficit widened in July by the most in three years and the gap with China hit a record as the Trump administration imposed tariffs on a range of Chinese goods, prompting retaliatory...
DATE: Sept. 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Business
Mountains, history from ancestral Puebloans to the Old West and unique small towns make Southwest Colorado an attractive destination for more small tour groups of 20 to 50 people, according to a...
DATE: Sept. 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Business
What brought people west to Colorado was hope for prosperity and the allure of gold, but what kept them there was the agriculture. Land is a limited commodity, so settlers staked their claim and...
DATE: Sept. 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Business
Colorado’s economy is, by almost any measure, red hot. Job growth, business formation and wages all are up. But even the most robust economy doesn’t serve everyone. Hidden in the averages are...
DATE: Aug. 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Business
WASHINGTON – Long-term U.S. mortgage rates ticked up this week as borrowing costs are meaningfully higher than a year ago. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on 30-year,...
DATE: Aug. 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Business
Stillwater Music recently added four new members to its board: Daniel Gottlieb, Shelley Mauch, Nancy Shanks and Laura Wenger. Gottlieb moved to Durango in 2016 and is the director of investments...
DATE: Aug. 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Business
Nancy Heleno, founding board president and lead charter application author for Mountain Middle School, recently announced that she started a business as a college essay instructor and will give a...
DATE: Aug. 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Business
La Plata Electric Association recently named longtime electric utility professional Johnnie Walker as its new right-of-way agent. Walker is from Farmington and started her career in 1979 as a meter...
DATE: Aug. 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Business
HomesFund, a local mortgage lender, will hold home-buyer education classes Sept. 22 at Fort Lewis College in Durango and Oct. 4 at Bayfield Town Hall in Bayfield. Topics include: budgeting and...
DATE: Aug. 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Business
FORT COLLINS (AP) – A decade ago, L&L Acoustical averaged about 60 jobs a month. Today, the drywall company completes 35 to 40 jobs, not because the work is shriveling up – quite the opposite....
DATE: Aug. 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Business
NEW YORK – One of the most challenging aspects of owning a home for many people is the need to find a reliable contractor. Whether looking for someone to fix a roof or to overhaul a kitchen,...
DATE: Aug. 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Business
NEW YORK – Who knew connecting the world could get so complicated? Perhaps some of technology’s brightest minds should have seen that coming. Social media bans of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones...
DATE: Aug. 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Business
