COASTAL BEND —TUESDAYPrimerica hosts financial seminarPrimerica is hosting a seminar on “Yes, You Can Be An Entrepreneur” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the ValueBank Tower, 3649 Leopard St., Suite 512. Free.For reservations/information, call Mark Oser & Associates at 883-7217 or 883-9365.SBA loan assistance to be offered in AliceThe U.S. Small Business Administration will be available for startup...

Business has been booming for bootleg DVD peddlers all week in the runup to Sunday’s Academy Awards, sellers told the Daily News. Original post: Academy Awards are business boon for bootleg DVD sellers with copies of ‘Avatar’ and ‘Up in the Air’ (New York Daily News)

In defiance of the old saying about going home again, Mayor Nutter spent a couple of hours on Roxborough’s main business corridor in his old City Council district yesterday. Follow this link: Nutter strolls Roxborough’s business corridor (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

WASHINGTON — The letter last week to Sen. Sherrod Brown was signed by executives from some of the largest companies and business organizations in Ohio — including FirstEnergy of Akron, the Timken Company of Canton, the Ohio Manufacturers’ Association and the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. Read more here: Business vs. clean energy: Ohioans pulled 2 ways (The Columbus Dispatch)

Advocates cite tuition, loose lending, low wages. Continued here: Defaults on student loans rising (The Arizona Republic)

Mumbai, Mar 6: A working group of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today suggested mandatory doubling of the limit for collateral free loans to micro and small enterprises (MSEs) sector to Rs 10 lakh from the present Rs 5 lakh. Here is the original post: RBI suggests doubling limit of collateral free loans to MSE (New Kerala)