If you haven’t finished, or even started, your holiday shopping, you’ve got one chance left. Is it us, or do stores stay open on Christmas Eve until way later then the used to. Tomorrow is the drawing for the ErieBlogs holiday gift certificate giveaway. We’re giving away three $25 gift certificates – two to Latino’s [...]

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Yesterday was both the first day of winter as well as the first day of Hanukkah. Happy Hanukkah to everyone. By the way, we own at dreidel. As for winter, don’t get us started. Winter pretty much started right after Halloween this year. We’ve got to be on track for some kind of snow fall [...]

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The Federal Reserve has formally approved PNC Bank‘s plan to purchase National City Bank based out of Cleveland, Ohio. With the acquisition, PNC will be the 8th largest depository institution in the U.S. As we blogged last week, PNC is required to sell 61 National City branches, including locations in Erie, Crawford and Warren counties. [...]

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PNC Bank has announced they will acquire National City Corp for $5.6 billion. National City has been in trouble for awhile. CNN also reports: Making the announcement before Friday’s opening bell, Pittsburgh-based PNC said it would also get a capital injection from the government by selling $7.7 billion worth of preferred stock as part of [...]

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