New banks opened 2006-2009

<digest-hd/>By the numbers — New banks
2006 2007 2008 2009*
Commercial banks 167 159 89 20
Missouri 5 1 2 0 Illinois 7 7 2 1
St. Louis MSA ** 2 0 1 0
* Through July 23, 2009
** Metropolitan statistical […]

Foodmakers squeezed by costs, strapped consumers

For more than a year, food makers and other consumer products companies have passed on much of the burden of rising commodity costs to […]