International Business News - Cash http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif British police say a trash collector can hold on to the mound of mutilated cash he found stuffed into a wastebasket in the English town of Lincoln earlier this year. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/uk-trash-man-to-keep-sliced-up-cash.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:45:19 EST A Venezuelan lawyer dispatched by President Hugo Chavez's government to help cover up a cash suitcase scandal was handed a two-year prison sentence Monday by a judge who commended his prompt guilty plea and testimony against others. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/venezuelan-lawyer-gets-2-years-in-suitcase-plea.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:31:38 EST A Venezuelan lawyer dispatched by President Hugo Chavez's government to help cover up a cash suitcase scandal was handed a two-year prison sentence Monday by a judge who commended his prompt guilty plea and testimony against others. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081201/venezuelan-lawyer-gets-2-years-in-suitcase-plea.htm Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:26:46 EST This holiday season, cash is in vogue again as consumers--maxed out on credit cards or trying to stick to a budget--are buying what they can actually pay for. Stores like J.C. Penney Co., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target Corp. are noting a decline in credit card use as an overall form of payment, in favor of cash or debit cards. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081123/cash-not-yet-king-again-but-coup-may-be-coming.htm Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:11:46 EST Cash or credit? For more Americans, who have already maxed out their credit cards or are just trying to manage their spending better in the tough economy, the answer is increasingly the old-fashioned one. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/180871-cash-economy.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081123/more-customers-resume-using-old-fashioned-cash.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081123/more-customers-resume-using-old-fashioned-cash.htm Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:07:40 EST Chrysler LLC needs immediate federal help or its cash could fall short of the amount needed to stay in business, CEO Robert Nardelli told the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081118/chrysler-says-it-could-go-under-without-loan.htm Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:58:14 EST It took some fancy footwork, but a Goodwill store in Illinois has found the owner of $7,500 in cash mistakenly donated with old shoes. A newcomer to the United States from Bulgaria found the money this month on her first day at the Goodwill store in Glen Carbon. Teodora Petrova turned over the money to management. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081117/goodwill-finds-man-who-mistakenly-donated-7-500.htm Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:26:54 EST Cash-strapped General Motors Corp. said Monday it will delay reimbursing its dealers for rebates and other sales incentives, an indication that the company is starting to have cash-flow problems. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081117/gm-delays-payments-to-dealers-to-conserve-cash.htm Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:27:59 EST Police say a central Pennsylvania man tried to rob a bank--but tellers' empty cash drawers thwarted his attempt. Springettsbury Township Police Lt. Scott Laird said the tellers were waiting for their cash drawers to be filled when a man entered a Susquehanna Bank branch Thursday morning and demanded money. The first teller fainted and the next two showed him their empty cash drawers. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081114/robber-threatens-to-complain-after-finding-no-cash.htm Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:25:31 EST Migrant remittances, a vital source of income for poor countries, could decline by up to 6 percent next year due to worsening economic conditions around the world, the U.N.'s trade chief said Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081114/migrants-sending-less-cash-home-un-warns.htm Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:45:38 EST Police say a central Pennsylvania man tried to rob a bank--but tellers' empty cash drawers thwarted his attempt. Springettsbury Township Police Lt. Scott Laird said the tellers were waiting for their cash drawers to be filled when a man entered a Susquehanna Bank branch Thursday morning and demanded money. The first teller fainted and the next two showed him their empty cash drawers. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081113/robber-threatens-to-complain-after-finding-no-cash.htm Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:51:31 EST This stacks up among the better finds at a Goodwill store: $7,500 in cash stuffed in a shoebox. A recent Bulgarian immigrant found the money during her first day on the job last week at a Goodwill near St. Louis in Glen Carbon, Ill. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081110/charity-worker-finds-7-500-among-donated-shoes.htm Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:20:07 EST Payday lender and pawn shop operator Cash America International Inc. said Wednesday it will to close about one-third of its Ohio lending locations in the next few months, after voters in the state chose to maintain new payday loan restrictions. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081105/cash-america-to-close-43-payday-loan-shops-in-ohio.htm Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:33:04 EST Dual U.S.-Venezuelan citizen Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson was paid to testify that a cash-stuffed suitcase he smuggled into Argentina from Venezuela was for the successful presidential campaign of Cristina Fernandez, a top Argentine Cabinet minister alleged Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081104/argentina-distances-itself-from-cash-suitcase-flap.htm Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:13:52 EST A jury has reached a verdict in the trial of a Venezuelan charged with acting as an illegal foreign agent in the cover up of a scandal involving a suitcase full of cash. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081103/jury-reaches-verdict-in-fla-cash-suitcase-trial.htm Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:19:54 EST A federal jury convicted a wealthy Venezuelan Monday of acting as an illegal foreign agent who came to the U.S. to cover up a Latin American political scandal involving a cash-stuffed suitcase smuggled into Argentina. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081103/jury-reaches-verdict-in-fla-cash-suitcase-trial.htm Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:43:16 EST President Hugo Chavez on Saturday threatened to expropriate a major Venezuelan company because of its owners' ties to a scandal involving the seizure of a suitcase stuffed with $800,000 in cash. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081101/chavez-biz-related-to-scandal-may-be-expropriated.htm Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:41:30 EDT A Miami jury will return next week to continue deliberations in the case of a wealthy Venezuelan accused of acting as an illegal foreign agent in the U.S. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081031/jury-still-out-in-miami-cash-suitcase-trial.htm Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:38:24 EDT A federal judge in Miami wants jurors to try to break a deadlock in the trial of a Venezuelan man accused of acting as an illegal foreign agent in the U.S. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081030/jury-at-impasse-in-venezuelan-cash-suitcase-trial.htm Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:26:33 EDT Jurors reached an impasse Wednesday in the trial of a Venezuelan accused of acting as an illegal foreign agent to cover up a political scandal involving a cash-stuffed suitcase. A federal judge ordered them to continue deliberations. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081029/jury-at-impasse-in-venezuelan-cash-suitcase-trial.htm Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:59:21 EDT