The Maryland/Washington, D.C. area lost 4,419 industrial jobs between May 2011 and May 2012, a drop of 2.3 percent, according to the 2013 Maryland/DC Manufacturers Directory published by Manufacturers’ News Inc., of Evanston, Ill.

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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Mild weather and a new casino didn’t provide much help for Atlantic City’s casinos, whose revenue fell 5 percent last month. Statistics released Tuesday by the state Division of Gaming Enforcement show that the 13 casinos ...

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WASHINGTON — U.S. home prices are falling again in most major cities after posting small gains over the summer and spring. The report suggests the troubled housing market remains weak and won’t recover any time soon. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller ...

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A new report says sales of U.S. magazines at newsstands and other retail outlets fell 9 percent in the first six months of the year in a sign of readers trimming discretionary spending. Although overall circulation was down just 1 ...

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Newly released figures show Atlantic City’s casinos shared the misery last month, with all 11 reporting revenue declines compared with May 2010. Their combined revenue fell more than 9 percent from a year ago to $290.6 million. The biggest loser ...

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Scores of websites and Internet services like Foursquare and Reddit are down or have limited availability because of problems at a data center run by Amazon.com. The problems reveal widespread reliance on Amazon Web Services, which rents out computers and ...

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The number of residences sold in the Baltimore metropolitan area dropped in 2010 from the prior year, according to RealEstate Business Intelligence LLC, or RBI, a source of real estate information in the mid-Atlantic region. Last year, 23,033 units were ...

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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A new report paints a grim picture of 2011 in the nation’s second-largest gambling market. The research report by a major casino analysis company predicts Atlantic City’s 11 casinos will continue to lose money and market ...

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Donations to the Salvation Army this holiday season through the charity’s “red kettle” program were down nearly $33,000 from last year, and mail-in donations dropped around $110,000, officials said Monday. Maj. Rick Mikles, general secretary of the Maryland and West ...

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Hollywood Casino Perryville continued to lag state revenue expectations in December, generating $6.5 million during its third full month of operation. Each of the casino’s 1,500 slot machines averaged just $140.58 in revenue, well below the $210 the state expected ...

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