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Congress took further steps to right the staggering economy by expanding a popular tax credit for homebuyers and extending unemployment checks for the growing legions of people running out of benefits with few job prospects.

Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commerical use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool on any article or visit www.djreprints.com THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of the Shaw Group made two lucrative stock purchases this week.

Georgia Power, Southern Nuclear and The Shaw Group will host several supplier information meetings to familiarize local vendors with the procurement process for the new construction at Plant Vogtle.

Shares of the Shaw Group jumped Thursday soon after the CEO of the engineering and construction firm bought $6.4 million worth of shares this week.

The Shaw Group has been awarded a contract by Petkim Petrochemical Holding AS to provide engineering and procurement services for an ethylene plant capacity expansion in Turkey.

MetLife, Inc third quarter revenues fell 1.6% to $12.4 billion and net loss was $650 million or 79 cents a share.

MORGAN CITY - The owner of Evangeline Downs race track casino has closed a $106.8 million deal to buy the Amelia Belle riverboat casino near Morgan City.

The Shaw Group Inc., a construction and engineering company, took an 87 percent drop in fiscal fourth-quarter profit, primarily because of a non-cash foreign exchange loss for its nuclear power segment, the company reported Thursday.

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Jim Bernhard, the chairman and chief executive officer of The Shaw Group Inc., has parted with a small portion of his stake in the multibillion-dollar company he founded more than two decades ago.

Shaw Group By RW Baird WE ARE DOWNGRADING Shaw Group from Outperform to Neutral as the stock is near our $32 price target and the timing of the nuclear outlook has become increasingly uncertain following yesterday's Nuclear Regulatory Commission announcement that Westinghouse, which Shaw has a stake in, has thus far failed to demonstrate that the ...

After U.S. regulators raised safety concerns about the design of a new Westinghouse nuclear reactor, a company that owns part of Westinghouse said on Friday it did not expect a delay in certification of the reactor design.

Baton Rouge-based Shaw Group Inc.'s stock was down nearly 10 percent in morning trading after an R.W. Baird analyst downgraded its shares today, saying questions by federal regulators about a reactor design could spell trouble for the company's nuclear-power business.

One bearish option trader exchanged 70,000 contracts in the January 2010 contract to protect against potential declines in the EEM through expiration.

A Baird analyst today downgraded shares of the engineering and construction firm, the Shaw Group, saying questions by federal regulators about a reactor design could spell trouble for the company's nuclear-power business.

The administrators of Louisiana's tax credit program for movie studios, flooded by billions of dollars of proposed projects that haven't materialized and beset by allegations of delayed applications, have been sued in federal court by developers who planned a $42 million project in New Orleans.

Alberici Constructors Inc. has won a $44 million subcontract to build part of a $4.9 billion plant that will convert weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for nuclear power plants.

Formosa Plastics has agreed to buy $10 million in new equipment for pollution controls at plants in Baton Rouge and Point Comfort, Texas.

BATON ROUGE - Suggestions from a Jindal administration official Monday that Louisiana has a "surplus" of four-year college degrees rankled members of a commission looking at ways to overhaul the state's public college systems.