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Global cruise company Carnival Corp. has hired Bank of America Corp. to operate its North American corporate credit-card program. (CCL) (BAC)

UnitedHealth Group Inc. is predicting that it will lose hundreds of thousands of members from its health plan rolls in 2009, with declining or flat profit. (UNH)

DELAFIELD, WI (MARKET WIRE) Delafield-based Golden Innovations donated $5,000 to the Kettle Moraine Food Pantry during a check presentation held at the food pantry in Wales on november 25. Pictured from left to right are Amy Schacht, president of the Kettle Moraine Food Pantry, Neal J. Kedzie, Wisconsin State Senator (11th district), Jim Bruckman, treasurer of the Kettle Moraine Food Pantry, and Cindy Susienka, President and CEO of Golden Innovations.

A day after Fannie Mae told the New York Stock Exchange that it intends to meet the continued listing standard, Freddie Mac did the same. (FRE)

Aliant Bank opened its new Pell City branch this week.

Californians used 8.3 percent less gas in August than they did in the same month in 2007, while gas prices climbed 40 percent in the same time period.

A biotechnology investment fund that owns more than 8 percent of struggling drug company Icagen Inc. is calling for the company’s sale – and threatening action that could lead to the removal of CEO Kay Wagoner.

Two years ago, Merck chief Richard Clark seemed to have pulled off an amazing turnaround. What happened?

Lara Fritts, executive director and one of just two employees of the Southeast Fairfax Development Corp., is leaving at the end of the year after 3.5 years with the organization, which fosters economic development in Fairfax County.

PharMerica Corp. (NYSE: PMC) has amended its contract with Kindred Healthcare Operating Inc. to run through June 30, 2011. (PMC)