John Nestor – AHN Sports Correspondent Cleveland, OH, United States (AHN Sports) – The NBA is not in action but that doesn’t mean that Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert is sitting idly by. Gilbert, the founder of Quicken Loans, is a partner in a gambling investment company that is looking to open “high-style, up-scale urban [...]
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March Case-Shiller shows double-dip in home prices
May 31st, 2011
davidguide WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The prices of single-family homes in 20 major cities fell for the eighth straight month and confirmed that there is a double-dip in the housing market, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index released Tuesday by Standard & Poor’s. Home prices fell a non-seasonally adjusted 0.8% in March. Prices have moved down [...]
Hot Luxury Home Markets
February 14th, 2011
davidguide For awhile it seemed that luxury homes were immune to the effects of the declining housing market, but as of late, they too are showing signs of feeling the pinch. High end neighborhoods in Northern California such as Los Gatos, Saratoga and San Jose have seen price reductions up to 50%, and poor sales to [...]
The Era of Slow Selling
January 19th, 2011
davidguide Given the sorry state of customer service today, several new companies are eliminating high-pressure sales practices and creating tools that shift the burden of satisfaction over to the buyer. The best way to prevent buyer’s remorse, the thinking goes, is to let customers control the sales process to the point where they create their own [...]
Bank of Portugal’s 2011 forecast for GDP worsens
January 11th, 2011
davidguide MADRID (MarketWatch) — The Bank of Portugal on Tuesday said it now sees the country’s gross domestic product falling 1.3% in 2011, against an autumn forecast of flat growth. In its winter economic bulletin, the central bank said it sees GDP rising 0.6% in 2012. Private consumption in the country is expected to fall 2.7%, [...]
VIDEO from International Monetary Fund Available on thenewsmarket.com: Togo Achieves IMF World Bank Debt Relief
December 15th, 2010
davidguide NEW YORK, Dec. 14, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — See video from International Monetary Fund at: http://www.thenewsmarket.com/Releases/StoryDetailPage.aspx?GUID=f5c444e7-65bb-4e6f-8cfa-e2e9d31903f6 The IMF and the World Bank have announced up to US$1.8 billion in debt relief for Togo. In this interview, the View full post on All Stories
Facebook Founders Give Big To Back Marijuana In California
October 11th, 2010
davidguide Matthew Borghese – AHN News Contributor Los Angeles, CA, United States (AHN) – Two of the men behind social networking sensation Facebook.com have given substantial donations to a group pushing to decriminalize marijuana in California. Facebook co-founder and billionaire Dustin Moskovitz donated $70,000 to a group supporting Proposition 19, only to be shown up by [...]
A Few Notes on Debt Issues: Settlements and Bankruptcy
October 15th, 2009
davidguide Most people who are have some means to support their daily means would prefer to think that they can remain such. Often they do. However, not all factors that determine their circumstances are under their control. In cases of serious, sudden accidents occurring to someone within the family, or to the individual himself, he will [...]
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