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Deals of the Hour / June 22, 2010, 12:11 pm

Stocks slide on new concerns about housing, banks

Stocks mostly fell Tuesday after a gain in technology shares failed to offset new worries about housing and banks. The Dow Jones industrial average fell about 25 points in afternoon trading. The technology-dominated ... (Source: San Francisco Gate 2010-06-22T18:52:01Z)

InterOil Announces Results of Annual and Special Meeting

CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA AND HOUSTON, TEXAS--(Marketwire - 06/22/10) - InterOil Corporation (NYSE: IOC - News ) (POMSoX: IOC) is pleased to announce that at its annual and special meeting of shareholders held on June 22, 2010 ... (Source: Yahoo Finance 2010-06-22T18:44:52Z)

Argentina vs. Greece, Nigeria vs. South Korea to decide World Cup Group B

Group B's representatives in the knockout round will be determined this afternoon. Because of its six points and plus-four goal differential, Argentina is pretty much a lock for advancement. Only a blowout loss to Greece ... (Source: Washington Post 2010-06-22T18:01:55Z)

Marketers Can't Afford to Keep Basing Agency Decisions on Pricing

One of the after-effects of the Great Recession is the criteria by which client decision makers choose their agencies. It used to be primarily on chemistry, which was borne out by an agency that went deep to understand ... (Source: Advertising Age 2010-06-22T18:37:42Z)

LGS Innovations & zynamics Offer Revolutionary Malware Analysis Tools to the United ...

HERNDON, Va. & BOCHUM, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LGS Innovations (LGS), an independent U.S. subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent serving the U.S. federal government, and zynamics, a leading provider of patented program analysis ... (Source: Yahoo Finance 2010-06-22T18:01:55Z)

Nigeria-South Korea »

After a comfortable 2-0 victory against Greece in their opening game, South Korea were brought back down to earth in dramatic fashion by an emphatic defeat to a ruthless Argentina side. Huh Jung-Moo's players competed ... (Source: ESPN Soccernet 2010-06-22T18:16:14Z)

It's better to hear Stuart Sternberg name Tampa as a new Tampa Bay Rays home than ...

Tampa, Stuart Sternberg said. And in St. Petersburg, a mayor protested. Hillsborough, Sternberg added. And in Pinellas, council members shuddered. And with that, the Stadium Wars officially began. To this point ... (Source: St. Petersburg Times 2010-06-22T18:16:14Z)

City Hall blog: Minority Dallas council members warn of racial divide over Love Field ...

Editor's note: This item originally appeared on dallasnews.com's Dallas City Hall blog . The Dallas City Council's seven minority members and several other black and Hispanic leaders held an extraordinary press ... (Source: Dallas Morning News 2010-06-22T18:44:52Z)

Excerpts from Rolling Stone article on Gen. McChrystal

Gen. McChrystal has been criticized regarding his comments in a Rolling Stone magazine profile. Excerpts from a Rolling Stone magazine profile on Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, set to ... (Source: CNN (blog) 2010-06-22T18:30:33Z)

Tentative consumer deal gives auto dealers a break

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a setback for the Obama administration, House and Senate negotiators assembling a massive financial regulation bill are on the verge of excluding auto dealers from direct oversight by a new consumer ... (Source: Associated Press 2010-06-22T18:59:11Z)

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