Republic Services Inc. was scheduled to begin removing sections of reinforced concrete pipe on Monday. The project is part of the company’s strategy to reduce odors related to smoldering deep within the landfill. But the odor is expected to be worse while the excavation is ongoing.

The company agreed to provide hotels for residents within a one-mile radius of the landfill through June 14 while crews excavate sections of the concrete pipe.

Removal of the pipes and the temporary relocation of neighbors is part of an agreement between Republic and Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster aimed at reducing foul odors that have triggered numerous complaints and prompted health concerns among people who live and work nearby.

The agreement filed last week in St. Louis County Circuit Court also calls for a plastic cap to be placed over part of the landfill by early September.

The attorney general sued Republic Services on March 27 alleging violation of Missouri environmental laws.

The waste company said it will meet with contractors Tuesday morning to decide when to begin work.

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The Eaton Centre will be open on Victoria Day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. along with a few other malls, including Square One and Vaughan Mills. Yorkdale and Sherway Gardens will be closed.

Despite the averted strike, LCBO and beer stores will be closed as well guaranteed online personal loans.

If you’re looking for a fun activity over the weekend, however, Canada’s Wonderland will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. The CN Tower will be open, too. For anyone interested in seeing the famous pandas, the Toronto Zoo will be open on Monday and the panda exhibit will open to the public on Saturday.

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Seattle-based Tableau Software Inc. provides software that helps businesses convert data into visual presentations.

The shares jumped $17.50, or 56 percent, to $48.50 in morning trading. Earlier, the company sold 5 million shares for $31 each and total proceeds of $155 million. Certain shareholders sold an additional 3.2 million shares at the same price for $99.2 million.

The shares are trading under the symbol “DATA.”

The offering’s underwriters _ Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Morgan Stanley & Co. _ have a 30-day option to buy up to 1.2 million more shares from Tableau, which would generate $38.1 million more in proceeds.

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The consumer-price index decreased 0.4 percent, the biggest decrease since December 2008, after falling 0.2 percent in March, according to Labor Department figures released today in Washington. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg projected a 0.3 percent drop, according to the median estimate. The so-called core price measure, which excludes more volatile food and energy costs, increased 0.1 percent, less than projected.

Cheaper fuel costs are helping consumers overcome the burden of higher taxes and anemic wage gains by freeing up extra cash to spend elsewhere. Apart from receding energy expenses, subdued gains in the price of other goods and services give officials at the Federal Reserve latitude to adjust policy should they decide the economy needs more monetary stimulus.

]]> http://economicsurveys.com/consumer-prices-in-us-dropped-more-than-forecast-in-april-bloomberg/feed/ http://economicsurveys.com/saudi-man-arrested-with-pressure-cooker-at-us-airport/ http://economicsurveys.com/saudi-man-arrested-with-pressure-cooker-at-us-airport/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 18:54:03 +0000 Town http://economicsurveys.com/saudi-man-arrested-with-pressure-cooker-at-us-airport/ DETROIT—A Saudi man arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after federal agents said he lied about why he was travelling with a pressure cooker is due in court.

Hussain Al Khawahir is scheduled to appear Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit for a hearing to determine whether he will be released on bond or detained.

Al Khawahir was arrested Saturday on allegations of lying to agents and using a passport with a missing page. His nephew, Nasser Almarzooq, told The Associated Press Monday the case was a misunderstanding about the device he wanted for cooking.

Almarzooq says his uncle was coming to visit him for a couple weeks. Almarzooq is a student in University of Toledo in Ohio.

Two pressure cookers were used in the Boston Marathon bombings last month.

Gina Balaya, spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Detroit, said Al Khawahir made his initial court appearance Sunday, but his Monday detention hearing was delayed until Tuesday afternoon. A message seeking comment was left with his defence attorney.

Authorities have said that in the Boston Marathon bombing, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev set off two shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs April 15 near the race finish line. The attack killed three people and injured more than 260 others.

On Monday, Almarzooq said he was concerned about his uncle and hadn’t been told anything since his uncle was arrested Saturday. He also vehemently denied any wrongdoing.

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The recall affects 2005 to 2010 Grand Cherokees and 2006 to 2010 Commanders.

U.S. safety regulators say cracks in a circuit board can cause a faulty signal as the SUVs are being started. If the vehicles shift into neutral they can roll away.

Chrysler says the problem has caused 26 crashes and two injuries.

Chrysler will notify owners and dealers will update software to take care of the problem. Chrysler found cracks in a circuit board that turns the four-wheel-drive system on and off.

Repairs will be made at no cost to owners.

The recall covers 295,000 vehicles in the U.S., 28,500 in Canada, and 4,200 in Mexico. The remaining 141,000 are outside North America.

The company says in documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Administration that it began looking into the problem after a customer complained that an SUV rolled away in January of 2012 after being started remotely.

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Many amendments filed by Republicans aim to boost border security and employment enforcement provisions in the bill. Supporters say that in some cases the real intent is to kill the legislation, because far-reaching amendments would upend the fragile deal between four Democratic and four Republican senators who wrote the bill.

Democratic amendments also pose challenges, particularly measures by Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, to extend immigration rights to same-sex couples and allow them to petition to make their partners U.S. citizens.

Republican supporters of the legislation say including such a provision would cost their support.

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The sector lost about 6,000 jobs overall, according to the Labor Department’s jobs report. This was largely due to a decline in hiring for non-residential buildings or public works projects like roads or sewer plants. Combined, these two areas lost 19,700 jobs.

Meanwhile, home builders and their subcontractors added 13,300 workers, even more than in March.

A big part of the sector’s pullback is due to a drop in government-funded construction projects, a trend that has been going on for about two years.

Federal construction spending is down 28% since peaking in August 2011, when stimulus spending was still going strong, according to Ken Simonson, chief economist of the Associated General Contractors of America, an industry trade group. Local governments, particularly school districts, have also been pulling back on construction spending after building a rush of new ones during the housing boom.

“You don’t need to open a new school every month if people aren’t coming,” he said.

Additionally, many builders are having a hard time finding skilled construction workers.

David Crowe, chief economist with the National Association of Home Builders, said residential construction hiring likely would have been even higher in April if not for the shortage of skilled workers in some markets. He said a survey of his trade group’s members found about half couldn’t find workers with the necessary skills.

Simonson and other experts say the cutback in federal spending — known as the sequester — that went into effect March 1 hasn’t halted work on any construction projects already underway. But they said federal agencies knew the sequester was looming and did scale back new construction contracts earlier this year.

Record low mortgage rates, a rebound in home prices and strong new home sales prompted the fastest pace of home building in nearly five years in March, according to a separate government report.

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