Job fair planned

Job fair planned

BOARDMAN

Staff Right Services, a locally owned staffing agency, will host a job fair at the Mahoning County One Stop at 141 Boardman- Canfield Road on Monday from 8 a.m. to noon.

The agency will be hiring to fill positions for multiple employers. Openings include positions in the steel industry, as well as the oil and gas sector. Available temporary and temporary-to-hire jobs range in pay from $8 per hour to $14 per hour.

Applications will be accepted at the job fair, and candidates are encouraged to bring updated resumes and two forms of valid government-issued identification.

Store to open 3rd site

struthers

Perfect Occasion Costumes and Magic will open its third store at 602 Youngstown-Poland Road today at 10 a.m. with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Special guests will be on hand for the event, including magicians, a face and body artist, a ventriloquist and a special-effects make-up artist.

BT Entertainment will also provide a DJ and karaoke entertainment.

Perfect Occasion Costumes and Magic has a location in Champion and another in Middlefield.

Knight Capital’s cost for glitch: $440M

new york

It’s turning out to be one costly glitch.

A technical problem that briefly threw dozens of stocks into chaos Wednesday will cost Knight Capital Group $440 million, the trading firm said Thursday. Knight’s own stock plunged for a second day, erasing 75 percent of its value in two days. The company also said it is pursuing ways to raise money to fund the expense, raising questions about the firm’s viability.

Argentina celebrates paying off its bond

buenos aires, argentina

Bond payoffs are supposed to be boring, but Argentina’s president is celebrating today’s final $2.3 billion payment on a bond given to people whose savings were confiscated a decade ago, calling it a lesson for European countries mired in foreign debt.

The nation’s economic disaster left thousands with a grim choice after the government seized their dollar-denominated deposits to stop bank runs in 2002.

Airline fares go up 2nd time in 2 weeks

dallas

For the second time in less than two weeks, major U.S. airlines are raising fares.

United Airlines confirmed Thursday that it increased prices on many U.S. flights by $10 per round trip.

J.P. Morgan airline analyst Jamie Baker says, however, that he’ll be surprised if Southwest follows suit, coming only two weeks after airlines raised base fares by $4 to $10 per round-trip ticket.

If discount airlines such as Southwest refuse to go along, United could be forced to retreat.

Also, airlines often undercut price increases by running fare sales.

Vindicator staff/wire reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Aqua America, .66, 25.72 .04

Avalon Holdings,3.64.03

Clear Channel, .73 62.40 —3.41

Cortland Bancorp, 9.60.00

Farmers Nat., .125.67 —.03

First Energy, 2.20, 49.45—.69

FirstMerit Corp., .64,15.91 —.07

First Niles Financial, .32,7.37—.43

First Place Fin., .71—.08

FNB Corp., .48,10.63—.13

General Motors,19.14—.52

General Electric, .68,20.52—.21

Motors Liquidation, .0422.00

Huntington Bank, .16, 6.16—.07

JP Morgan Chase, 1.20,35.17—.83

Key Corp, .20,7.93—.04

LaFarge, 10.86 —.52

Macy’s, .80, 36.401.34

Parker Hannifin, 1.64, 78.85—2.71

PNC, 1.60,58.50—.60

RTI Intl. Metals,24.14—1.17

Simon Prop. Grp.,4.20,161.41.23

Stoneridge 5.69 —.26

United Community Fin. 2.53—.03

Selected prices at 4 p.m. Thursday. Provided by Stifel Nicolaus. Not to be construed as an offer or recommendation to buy or sell any security.