Monthly Archives: February 2011

LSE-TMX: where should EM miners list their shares now?

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For any emerging market mining or natural resources company thinking of listing on a stock exchange, the choices have just got more interesting. The London Stock Exchange and TMX Group , operator of Canada’s stock exchange, have agreed a merger that creates the world’s largest platform for mining and natural resources company listings. Canada already had the largest platform, which includes its successful TSX Ventures Exchange, a junior board not unlike the LSE’s Aim market. Adding London’s Read more [...]

Abergavenny man’s home is one of Wales’ greenest

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Abergavenny man’s home is one of Wales’ greenest 3:21pm Wednesday 9th February 2011 Print Email Share AN ABERGAVENNY man who transformed his home with green features will show the public how they can do the same. John Cranna, a self-employed structural engineer, will invite people into the Lower Monk Street property, which he bought in 2004. Since then, he has reduced his domestic carbon emissions Read more [...]

And in Seattle, owners of 1/3rd of the homes now owe more than their houses …

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(MONROE, WA) -- This housing thing. What are ya gonna do? Everywhere you turn somebody’s singing the blues about the homestead.Take wrestling star Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bollea, a bass player in a band before he started crunching bones and cracking heads). Hulk has this gorgeous mansion in Bel Air Florida he’s been trying to sell – since 2006.The 17,000-sq ft mansion was first listed for $25 million in 2006. But with no buyers and a nasty divorce in the works with ex-wife Linda, Hogan Read more [...]

Verizon iPhone 4 Goes On Sale At Apple

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Verizon iPhone 4 Goes On Sale At Apple Last week Verizon and Apple started taking pre-orders on the new Verizon iPhone 4, the pre-orders were only available to existing customers of Verizon Wireless.Recent reports indicated that intial sales of the Verizon iPhone 4 were high, and this is bound to increase as Apple has just started selling the Verizon iPhone 4.Apple has a shipping date listed on their website for the 18th of February, which means that the intiial stock of the Verizon iPhone 4 sold Read more [...]

Most Foreclosures in Fulton County Now Priced Under $75K

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Dara PetersonSanta Barbara CA, 93117805-214-6968 Foreclosure Pricing in Fulton County GA (source: RealtyStore.com)Median foreclosure prices are now significantly below the market home price in Fulton County, Georgia, according to the latest foreclosure listings review by RealtyStore. Online PR News – 09-February-2011 –Santa Barbara, CA --- The latest data on foreclosure listings in Fulton County, Georgia has been compiled by RealtyStore. Results revealed over half of the real estate Read more [...]

$1m for some sand? You’re dreaming

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Sand touted as from the Pink and White Terraces is drawing bids of more than $1 million on a website auction - but there are doubts about its authenticity and a Te Arawa kaumatua is warning people not to exploit tribal history. Two people have vials of pink and white sand on sale on Trade Me, claiming they are from the terraces, a popular tourist attraction before Mt Tarawera's 1886 eruption destroyed them. Two tiers of the Read more [...]

Russia Backpedals on VTB Share Sale

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BY WILLIAM MAULDIN

MOSCOW—The Russian government has halved the size of its planned share offering in state-controlled bank VTB Group, after the bank’s stock price fell on investors’ fears that the sale would depress the shares.

Russia is now only planning to sell a 10% stake, worth about $3.5 billion, of London-listed VTB in public share offerings this year, the government said Wednesday in …

40pc of property sellers cut their asking prices

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"The traditional influx of new properties on the market at the start of the year has created even more intense competition amongst sellers. Even the resilient £1m-plus market is showing signs that it is not immune from the general economic pressures, as reductions have jumped at that end of the market." The report follows a warning from estate agents that fears about the job market are keeping the housing market depressed. Home owners are reluctant to commit to moving house Read more [...]

Cole Porter’s Buxton Hill Estate listed for sale at $4.5 mln

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The home of late American composer and songwriter, Cole Porter, has been listed for sale at $4.495 million. The property, a beautiful 40-acre formal gardens in Massachusetts' tranquil Berkshire Mountains area, was bought in June 1940 by the songwriter and his wife Linda Porter. They used the estate as their summer residence. Cole continued to visit the home until his death in 1964. It is in his Williamstown home that he completed many of the important numbers from 'Kiss Me Kate', including 'Another Read more [...]