Ribbon-cutting for Salon 843 Suites

January 12, 2016 at 12:00a.m.

BOARDMAN

The Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber will have a celebratory ribbon-cutting ceremony for Salon 843 Suites, located at 843 Boardman-Canfield Road, at 10 a.m. today.

Professional cosmetologists, estheticians, nail technicians and massage therapists can lease suites to set their own schedules and design their own spaces and business models.

For information, contact Karen at 330-727-3965, 330-953-2599 or by email at Salon843suites@gmail.com.

AT&T experiments with unlimited data

NEW YORK

AT&T is once again experimenting with offering unlimited data plans to smartphone customers while promoting its DirecTV service, signaling a potential reversal of industry trends toward data caps and charges for big video watchers.

AT&T is trying to capitalize on its $48.5 billion purchase of DirecTV last year. On Monday, it announced an unlimited data plan for cellphones, if you also get DirecTV or AT&T’s home-TV service, U-verse.

The unlimited data deal may be cheaper than AT&T’s limited-data plan if you have a family that watches a lot of video and want cable; if it’s one person, sticking with the existing plan is likely a better value, especially if you don’t want cable. It’s a limited-time offer, but AT&T won’t say when the promotion would end. People who sign up can keep their plans when or if the promotion ends.

Ohio gas prices

COLUMBUS

Ohio drivers head into the week with the average price at the pump about 5 cents lower than a week ago.

The state average for a gallon of regular fuel was about $1.84 in Monday’s survey from auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and WEX Inc. That’s about 3 cents lower than the average price that drivers were paying a month ago and down about 14 cents compared with a year ago.

Ohio’s prices for regular gas continue running below the national average, which was about $1.97 to start the week. A year ago, the national average price was about $2.14.

An abundance of crude oil has contributed to the relatively low gas prices. Pump prices also typically fall during the winter months due to reduced demand.

Allegiant reports passenger increase

LAS VEGAS

Allegiant, the only commercial airliner offering services at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport, recently reported its December passenger traffic results.

The report shows a 17.2 percent increase in passengers from December 2014 to December 2015; a 16.8 percent increase in revenue passenger miles; a 21.8 percent increase in departures.

For the year, the airline saw a year-over-year increase of 20.8 percent in its number of passengers; a 20.1 percent increase in revenue passenger miles; and a 25.5 percent increase in departures.

Staff/wire reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Alcoa Inc., .128.00—.07

Aqua America, .71 29.44 .21

Avalon Holdings,1.71—.08

Cortland Bancorp, .2415.75—.15

Farmers Nat., .128.34 —.21

First Energy, 1.44 32.07.48

Fifth/Third, .5218.17—.22

FirstMerit Corp., .6817.25 .09

First Niles Financial, .209.00.00

FNB Corp., .4812.23.01

General Motors, 1.4430.25.72

General Electric, .9228.58.13

Huntington Bank, .28 10.10.05

iHeartMedia Inc.,.90 .00

JP Morgan Chase, 1.7658.83—.09

Key Corp, .3011.94.02

LaFarge, .3417.57 .00

Macy’s, 1.44 38.822.93

Parker Hannifin, 2.52 90.37—.18

PNC, 2.0488.28.32

Simon Prop. Grp., 6.40186.71.61

Stoneridge 12.12 .02

Talmer Bank, .04 17.05.07

United Comm. Fin., .10 5.69.04

Selected prices from Monday’s 4 p.m. close.