Monthly Archives: March 2012

Two Africans short-listed among 100000 young entrepreneurs

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Two young African entrepreneurs have been short-listed in a global talent programme that attracted more than 100,000 applicants from over 221 countries. The programme, Your Big Year, gives young entrepreneurs from around the world the opportunity to win a year-long placement, meeting global leaders and captains of industry while also working on projects. The winner, out of 16 finalists, will be announced at the closing gala dinner of the Global Entrepreneurship Read more [...]

Listing of the week: Colonial home with history

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ZillowThe early colonial home could have been constructed well before 1700. 11 Lincoln Street, Gloucester, Mass.Listed for $399,000Around the time this home was built in the mid-1600s, the Anglo population in the colonies was around 275,000. Boston, with 7,000 residents, was the largest city, with New York next, having 5,000 folks. Colonial homes like this one dotted the countryside and had huge fireplaces that provided the only source of heat. Many of these homes still stand today.ZillowThe Read more [...]

Spring Ritual Returns: ‘For Sale’ Signs Sprout

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By Nick Timiraos Click for interactive Inventories of homes listed for sale in February rose by 0.5% from January, to 1.78 million, marking the first increase in nine months. Still, for-sale listings were 22% below their year-earlier levels and still near their lowest point since the housing bust deepened five years ago, according to the data from Realtor.com. Housing inventories tend to rise as the spring-buying season gets under way, and they rose in February from the previous Read more [...]

NSE tweaks listing rules to strengthen SME platform

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MUMBAI: The National Stock Exchange has tweaked the framework for listing of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in an effort to encourage issues by such companies on its special SME platform. The bourse said on Monday that it will let SMEs choose whether to let their shares trade in call auctions in fixed time slots during the day or follow the normal practice of allowing the stocks to trade in market hours. "Either the merchant banker or the issuer can opt for any one option before the shares Read more [...]

TMS PTO Event Set For March 23

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Topic: TMS PTO Event Set For March 23 Published Online Mar 13, 2012 - 11:12 AM Email this to a friend   Print this story It’s Trivia Time again at Trenton Middle School, with the annual trivia night/basket auction scheduled for Friday, March 23.The event, which will also include a potato bar and entertainment by student groups, will benefit projects at the school. Items are currently being accepted for the basket auction. There are no assigned themes in the homerooms or grade levels. Instead, Read more [...]

Metro home sales, prices up in February

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Low inventories of homes for sale in metro Detroit pushed up prices and sales in February with heightened competition for the best addresses.But despite record low interest rates for mortgages, a majority of those sales were for cash, meaning home loans are still tight and bargain-hunters are using cash to speed deals and avoid appraisals.And homeowners still underwater on mortgages or who simply won't sell at these still-low prices are contributing to the low inventories.It's a picture of a Read more [...]

Thai Listed Firms’ 2011 Dividends Up 7 Pct To New Record High

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Three hundred-eleven firms listing on The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) and the Market Alternative Investment (mai) announced 2011 dividend payment of a combined THB 326.11 billion (approx. USD 10.62 billion) -- up 7 percent from a year earlier, making the third straight year of record high dividend payments. “The impressive amounts reflected their continuously growing performances, although businesses faced rising costs and were severely affected from the floods last year. This also indicated Read more [...]

New planning regulations come into force for residential properties

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Although recent reports have stated that house purchase lending in Scotland increased in the third quarter of last year by eight percent, this is still significantly lower than the levels of lending prior to the current credit restrictions. As a result, home owners are now more likely to carry out a range of works to their properties, including extensions, erections of outbuildings such as sheds and summerhouses, and the formation of garden items, including decking. This type of work previously Read more [...]