Empty Tables Threaten Some Restaurant Chains <http://tinyurl.com/dme9j4> During a decade of easy credit and loose spending, American businesses built too many cars, houses, stores and factories. It turns out the country built too many restaurants, too.
Now consumers are cutting back, and dining out is among the casualties. Finer restaurant chains have been hit hard, and so have the casual sit-down places that flooded suburban shopping centers and tourist districts across the country, aimed straight at middle American tastes. FOREX-Dollar rises vs yen after nonfarm jobs report <http://tinyurl.com/c6hc9p> * Dollar rises above 100 yen after US jobs report * US economy lost 663,000 jobs in March * Risk appetite continues to improve on stock gains, G20 Mortgage rates fall to new low <http://tinyurl.com/dk88fh> The cost of borrowing money to buy a home is at its lowest level in almost four decades. Freddie Mac says the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to 4.78 percent this week from 4.85 percent last week. It is the lowest 30-year rate since Freddie Mac started its weekly survey in 1971. Last year at this time, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.88 percent. Twitter Has Captain Kirk, Dell Tweeting for Revenue <http://tinyurl.com/d2z7re> Twitter Inc., the online messaging service derided by comedian Jon Stewart as "inane chatter," is being taken seriously by big business. Dell Inc. is using Twitter to sell personal computers and solve customer problems. International Business Machines Corp. uses it to get research scientists talking. Intel Corp. is there looking for engineers and Microsoft Corp. is sponsoring a Twitter site that carries "Tweets" from executives. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
