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Advantage Resource Group marks 40 years with acts of service

Advantage Resource Group has come a long way since opening in October 1985 on Lexington Avenue. The business, founded by Bobbie Miller, has grown from a small staffing agency in Altoona to a HR service provider with three locations throughout central Pennsylvania. To mark its 40th ...

Hybrid SUVs costly, practical

SUVs deliver many attributes that car shoppers love in a vehicle. Thanks to their elevated height, they provide a commanding view of the road. They also deliver lots of passenger space, roomy cargo holds, and often have strong safety ratings. Less appealing are higher fuel bills and the expense of buying an SUV that’s showroom-fresh. The experts at Edmunds have found five solutions on the used market to keep costs in line. Choosing a used hybrid SUV saves money at the point of purchase, and the hybrid engine helps lower the cost of refueling for many miles down the road. Using a ...

Visa-Mastercard settlement may affect your rewards

NEW YORK — Visa and Mastercard have proposed a settlement in their long-running legal dispute with merchants and retailers over how much they charge merchants to accept their cards. The most important part of the settlement could directly impact how customers use their Visa- and ...

Wall Street scrambles back after big loss starts the day

NEW YORK — An early swoon shook the U.S. stock market on Friday, as Nvidia, bitcoin, gold and other high flyers swung on an increasingly antsy Wall Street, but it quickly calmed. After starting the day with a sharp drop of 1.3%, the S&P 500 erased all of it and then meandered up and down before finishing with a slight dip of 0.1%. The Nasdaq composite flipped to a gain of 0.1%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average trimmed its loss to 309 points, or 0.7%, after earlier being down nearly 600. AI stocks were again at the center of the action, a day after dragging Wall Street to ...

F.N.B. announces dividend

PITTSBURGH F.N.B. announces dividend The board of directors of F.N.B. Corp. declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.12 per share on its common stock. The dividend is payable on Dec. 15 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on Dec. 1. The company has total assets of $50 billion and approximately 350 banking offices throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, D.C., and Virginia. HUNTINGDON MBG implements digital pay One Inc., the leading digital payments network for the insurance industry, announced that the ...