‘Dress for success’ event at WCBA

‘Dress for success’ event at WCBA

YOUNGSTOWN

Williamson College of Business Administration will host the “Dress for Business Success” event from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Students will be modeling attire.

Shale presentation

WARREN

The Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber, the Better Business Bureau of Mahoning Valley and the Home Builders Association of Mahoning Valley boards of directors will hear Iryna Lendel, Cleveland State assistant director of the Center for Economic Development, present the results of a five-year study on shale opportunities in Ohio.

The private event will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. Oct. 23 in Warren.

International policies enhanced

Girard

Thompson Private Client Services, a division of Thompson Insurance Group, recently enhanced its international insurance policies for high net-worth clientele.

Report on global economic policies

WASHINGTON

The U.S. Department of the Treasury is due to release its semiannual Report to Congress on International Economic and Exchange Rate Policies on Wednesday. The Alliance for American Manufacturing called on U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to do more with China’s purported currency manipulation.

Boardwalk completes pipeline acquisition

HOUSTON

Boardwalk Pipeline Partners announced that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of Chevron Petrochemical Pipeline LLC, which owns the Evangeline ethylene pipeline system, from Chevron Pipe Line Co.

The Evangeline system is a 176-mile interstate pipeline capable of transporting approximately 2.6 billion pounds of ethylene per year and is supported by long-term, fee-based contracts. Evangeline transports ethy-lene between Port Neches, Texas, and Baton Rouge, La., where it interconnects with BLM’s ethylene distribution system, which includes BLM’s storage facilities at the Choctaw Hub.

US budget deficit falls to $486 billion

WASHINGTON

The federal government’s budget deficit has fallen to $486 billion, the smallest pool of red ink of President Barack Obama’s six-year span in office, a new report said Wednesday.

The Congressional Budget Office’s latest estimate shows better results than earlier projections by both CBO and the White House budget office.

It comes as Congress has mostly paused in its wrangling over the deficit in the run-up to the midterm elections next month.

Obama inherited a trillion-dollar-plus deficit after the 2008 financial crisis but that red-ink figure has improved in recent years as the economy has recovered. Last year’s deficit registered at $680 billion.

Vindicator staff/wire reports