Monthly Archives: January 2011

High class country houses for sale in Surrey

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AS the county with the highest proportion of multi-million-pound properties to be found outside central London, Surrey tends to set the tone for the country-house market in the rest of the UK. So spirits rose when, despite a difficult second half of 2010 (when hopes of a late-autumn revival were mostly buried in the pre-Christmas snow), Knight Frank reported signs of a revival in the torpid Surrey market with the sale of Hollow Lane House near Virginia Water at a guide price of £8 million, Read more [...]

High flying prime minister Harper racks up air miles: analysis

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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper's travel has been increasing during the past five years and where he travels has been shifting, according to an analysis by iPolitics.In fact, Harper nearly travelled more during the past two years than he did during the three previous years combined. His public trips to his home province of Alberta have declined while there has been a sharp increase in the number of trips to destinations in Ontario and Quebec.During the past five years Harper has travelled Read more [...]

Events listed for Jan. 22

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Sat, January 22, 2011 Minot Area Chamber of Commerce's Saturday Legislative Forum: 9 to 11 a.m., Minot Municipal Auditorium's Room 201. The forum is open to the public and gives people a chance to ask legislators about pending legislation and discuss legislative issues.Free weekly soup kitchen (breakfast): 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., Congregational United Church of Christ basement, east door, 430 N. Broadway. A chili benefit is planned for Deloris Gienger: 5 to 7 p.m. in the VFW Club in Anamoose. Read more [...]

Daley Can Defer Payment of Capital Gains Tax on $8.3 Million JPMorgan Sale

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William M. Daley, President Obama's new chief of staff. Photographer: Tim Boyle/Bloomberg William Daley, President Barack Obama’s new chief of staff, can defer the payment of capital gains taxes on his sale of almost $8.3 million of JPMorgan Chase Co. shares, based on government ethics rules. Daley filed a notice with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday on the sale of 186,190 shares of JPMorgan, where he was vice chairman. As Daley Read more [...]

Eskom May Again Tap International Bond Markets After Debt Sale

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January 20, 2011, 10:55 AM EST By Carli Lourens Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Eskom Holdings Ltd., South Africa’s largest power supplier, may sell more international debt after demand for its $1.75 billion bond sale, the first in the U.S. currency, exceeded supply by more than two-and-a-half times. “Going forward they’ll definitely tap the international market again,” Deon van Zyl, head of fixed interest investment at Metropolitan Asset Managers, said by Read more [...]

Historic Ghost River Crossing sells for $4.2 million

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CALGARY - The historic Ghost River Crossing, a well-known executive retreat and training centre near Cochrane, has been sold, the Herald has learned.Larry Shelley, president and chief executive of Coril Holdings Limited, confirmed the company has bought the property.Chairman of Coril is prominent Calgary businessman Ron Mannix. The company also owns the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Calgary."Ghost River is a very special place and has been operated as an executive retreat for a number of years. Read more [...]

Rapper’s treasures in online auction

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JO GILBERT FOR SALE: Pawnbroker Shane Lilley has listed items pawned by Scribe on Trade Me after the rapper failed to buy them back. Kiwi rapper Scribe's music awards are on the online auction block as a Christchurch pawnbroker says he is trying to recoup a $5500 debt from the chart-topper. Parklands Pawnbroker owner Shane Lilley said Scribe gave 11 of his music awards as security when his firm lent the Read more [...]

Rapper's treasures in online auction

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JO GILBERT FOR SALE: Pawnbroker Shane Lilley has listed items pawned by Scribe on Trade Me after the rapper failed to buy them back. Kiwi rapper Scribe's music awards are on the online auction block as a Christchurch pawnbroker says he is trying to recoup a $5500 debt from the chart-topper. Parklands Pawnbroker owner Shane Lilley said Scribe gave 11 of his music awards as security when his firm lent the rapper the money in Read more [...]

Food factory goes under the hammer

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Published on Thu Jan 20 09:24:27 GMT 2011 THE future of a troubled Amble food factory has once again been thrown into doubt – after it was put up for sale. The Longbenton Foods factory at Coquet Enterprise Park, along with machinery from the site, has gone up for auction. It is advertised online at Sweeney Kincaid Industrial Auctioneering and Read more [...]

Kardan raises EUR 195m from GTC share sale

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Amsterdam-listed investment company Kardan has raised EUR 195 mln from the sale of about 15% of the shares in Global Trade Centre, an office and shopping centre development and investment company operating in south-eastern Europe. GTC is listed in Warsaw.Kardan's wholly owned subsidiary, GTC Real Estate Holding, sold 35 million GTC shares at PLN 21.50 (EUR 5.5) per share. Kardan intends to use the proceeds to increase its financial headroom and reduce leverage. Following the placement, GTC Holding Read more [...]