Just Pizzelles featured in guide
Just Pizzelles featured in guide
CORTLAND
Just Pizzelles, a producer of gourmet Italian pizzelle cookies with more than 90 flavors, announced that it has been featured in the 2015 Official Ohio Travel Guide.
Just Pizzelles, 204 W. Main St., has been producing pizzelle cookie-flavor experiences since 2008. The business is known for pizzelle flavors such as Margarita, S’mores, Creme Brulee and Cotton Candy.
Boutique to have grand opening
BOARDMAN
Fancy’s Boutique, 5021 Market St., will have its grand opening at 11 a.m. Saturday. The store sells purses, shoes, jewelry and clothes. Customers have a chance to win a free pair of shoes or an outfit as raffle prizes.
Farmers National opens new branch
Alliance
Farmers National Bank of Canfield opened its new branch at 310 W. State St., Suite A, in Alliance with a ceremony Thursday evening. Farmers recently announced its second acquisition of Tri-State First Banc Inc., the holding company for 1st National Community Bank.
The $14.2 million transaction will give Farmers about $1.8 billion in assets, more than 450 employees and 38 offices in Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana, Stark, Wayne, Medina and Cuyahoga counties in Ohio and Beaver County in Pennsylvania.
‘Output impact’ of companies in network
CLEVELAND
In 2014, 253 companies supported by JumpStart Inc. and its partners in the Northeast Ohio Entrepreneurial Signature Program generated an “output impact” of $509 million for the state of Ohio, according to an annual report from the Center for Economic Development at Cleveland State University’s Levin College of Urban Affairs.
The Youngstown Business Incubator is among the incubators along with accelerators and angel funds that are part of The Northeast Ohio ESP network – a collaborative funded in part by the Ohio Third Frontier.
Stocks edge lower
NEW YORK
Stocks edged lower Thursday as talks over keeping Greece solvent stalled and got extended into the weekend.
Health care stocks rose sharply after the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act’s insurance subsidies.
The Dow Jones industrial average lost 75.71 points, or 0.4 percent, to 17,890.36. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 6.27 points, or 0.3 percent, to 2,102.31, and the Nasdaq composite fell 10.22 points, or 0.2 percent, to 5,112.19.
Stocks had been flat to slightly higher the first half of the day. But that momentum was soon lost, and Greece worries turned the market lower in the early afternoon.
The bitter standoff between Greece and its international creditors was extended into the weekend, days before Athens has to meet a crucial debt deadline that could decide whether it defaults on its debt and has to drop out of the euro.
Staff/wire reports
Selected local stocks
STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE
Aqua America, .61, 24.74-0.21
Avalon Holdings,2.440.08
Clear Channel, .46 22.030.15
Cortland Bancorp, 14.350
Farmers Nat., .128.340.14
First Energy, 1.44, 32.86-0.14
Fifth/Third, .5221.43-0.09
FirstMerit Corp., .64,21.08-0.1
First Niles Financial, .32,10.650
FNB Corp., .48,14.380.03
General Motors, 1.2034.70-0.46
General Electric, .88,27.05-0.21
Huntington Bank, .20, 11.45-0.13
JP Morgan Chase, 1.60,68.77-0.25
Key Corp, .26,15.41-0.03
LaFarge, 16.97-0.27
Macy’s, 1.25, 69.27-0.64
Parker Hannifin, 1.92, 118.28-1.26
PNC, 1.92,97.51-0.38
RTI Intl. Metals,32.66-0.49
Simon Prop. Grp.,5.20,172.75-1.15
Stoneridge 12.22-0.1
Talmer Bank, 17.09-0.02
United Comm. Fin., .04 5.440
Selected prices at 4 p.m. Thursday. Provided by Stifel. Not to be construed as an offer or recommendation to buy or sell any security.