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Philadelphia Business Today, 9/22/2008
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Nobel Learning stock up 23% after takeover bid
Posted 1:20pm
Nobel Learning Communities' stock is up 23 percent at noon after the private-education company announced that it had received an acquisition proposal for $17 a share from Knowledge Learning Corp.
BUSINESS BLOGS
Moody's goes 'negative' on pharma sector
It's all about credit lately.

And one of the big credit rating agencies views the outlook of the pharmaceutical sector as negative for the next 12 to 18 months.

Moody's Investors Service cites, what else, those long-time-in-coming expirations of the patents of some of the industry's biggest-selling drugs from 2010 through 2013.

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Advanta falls as Moody's weighs downgrade
Posted 1:35pm
Moody's may cut Advanta credit ratings because it's getting harder to raise funds in the securities markets.
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LATEST NEWS
 
Air Products wins gas contract in Asia - 1:38pm
 
HUD housing forum tomorrow in Phila. - 1:37pm
 
SEC adds more banned short-selling stocks - 1:20pm
 
Charming hires chief for Fashion Bug unit - 12:08pm
 
Aker delivers 5th of 12 tankers - 11:04am
 
Penn grants $1M to aid radiation treatment - 10:56am
 
Mannington in deal for rubber-to-electricity plant - 10:53am
 
End of summer, and Phila.-area gas prices fall
 
Stocks fall as investors await bank bailout plan 12:23pm
XML COMPANY PRESS RELEASES
 
On The First Day Of Fall, PECO Reminds Customers To Prepare For Winter Bills
 
FINAL Call for Entries in National Poster Contest Sponsored by Rohm and Haas in Honor of National Chemistry Week
 
Buckman's Ski and Snowboard Shops donate to Villanova's Fall Festival Committee
 
Mine Site Technologies and Rajant Corporation Deploy Wireless Mesh Systems in Two Mines
 
Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Delaware Valley Offers Free Housing Counseling Through Major Initiative
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Today's Inquirer
New status for 2 giants of finance
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will be able to take deposits and thus bolster their funding.
By Martin Crutsinger and Charles Babington, Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve said yesterday that it had granted a request by the country's last two major investment banks - Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley - to change their status to bank holding companies.
 
A Week of Financial Turmoil
A kind of deja vu for A.C. Moore president
Hired to turn around A.C. Moore, he's back in the state where his career began.
By Maria Panaritis, Inquirer Staff Writer
BERLIN, N.J. - You can take Rick A. Lepley out of New Jersey, but you apparently can't keep him out for good.
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