Big can be beautiful, especially when investors are wary of the stock market.Large-cap stocks, low in price but high in exposure to rapidly-growing international markets, appear poised for a comeback.Companies with market capitalizations of a

Oct. 29 / Regulators close The Union Credit Union The Washington state Department of Financial Institutions announced it closed The Union Credit Union, of Spokane, due to loan losses. The National Credit Union Administration then the /

Meetings & Events The Spokane Regional MarCom Association will hold a breakfast meeting, titled What We Do and Don't Want in a Pitch, on Friday, Nov. 5, from 7:30 to 9 a.m., at the McCarthey Athletic Center, 801 N. Cincinnati, on the a

Nordic Tarps Manufacturing Inc., of Spokane Valley, has leased 4,700 square feet of industrial space in the Fancher Bridge Business Park, at 5805 E. Sharp, and has moved there from a smaller space in that complex. Mark McLees, of NAI Black, handled

Leone & Keeble Inc., of Spokane, has been awarded a $2.6 million contract to modernize and expand a gymnasium in the Warden School District, located about 20 miles southeast of Moses Lake, in central Washington. The project includes updating the

Spokane Housing Authority, a nonprofit provider of low-income housing, says it expects to save hundreds of thousands of dollars through a $4.9 million loan it has obtained to refinance an earlier higher-interest debt and pay for $900,000 in planned

The Plummer-Worley School District, in North Idaho, will begin construction soon on a new, $8.5 million elementary school to replace an old elementary school that was condemned last year. That building, located in Worley, was deemed unsafe for a

Drink Nectar blogger to open tasting room Online wine blogger Josh Wade says he plans this month to open the Nectar Tasting Room, which will serve wine from five Washington state wineries, later this month.Wade has been writing an at

D Square Energy LLC, a North Bend Wash.-based company that sells, services, and maintains electrical generators that provide backup power for the commercial and industrial markets, has opened an outlet in Spokane Valley.The new shop occupies of

Two Taco Del Mar Mexican-food outlets have closed here recently, one at 3007 E. 57th on the South Hill, and a second at 8801 N. Indian Trail, in North Spokane.The owner of those two outlets, Frank Schoonover, who operates the franchises with his