Monthly Archives: May 2012
area housing market sees bidding wars return as buyers’ choices shrink
David D. Igla lost out on three Ellicott City homes in the past few months before he finally beat the competition and had an offer accepted.What kind of so-called buyer's market is this, he wondered?Some houses zip off the market — occasionally above asking price — while others languish because the price isn't right, the home isn't updated or other aspects of Read more [...]
Myrtle Beach area health events
Health screenings | Tuesdays, mall area, Georgetown Memorial Hospital; Thursdays, front lobby, Waccamaw Community Hospital. Finger-stick lipid profiles with blood sugar test: $20; diabetes screening-hemoglobin A1C: $15; blood sugar levels: $3. Free blood pressure screenings from 7:30 a.m. to noon. 546-0623 Community health BLS-CPR | 6-9 p.m. Tuesday, Wachesaw Conference Center. $35 fee. Registration required, 520-8490. Friends and Family CPR | 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Wachesaw Conference Center, Read more [...]
Sale of Thornaby Town Hall agreed with price estimated at £100000
‘Subak’ farming world-heritage listed
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TV plea on House panels
Hamid Ansari
New Delhi, May 20: Vice-President and Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari has suggested that meetings of parliamentary standing committees should be open to public or televised live, as in many western democracies.
Such panels do “excellent work” but remain unsung, Ansari said as he made the proposal at a two-day orientation programme Read more [...]
Memorial Day parade, other events listed
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Alibaba buys back 20 percent stake held by Yahoo for $7.1 billion
Mon May 21, 2012 3:31am BST
(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said it is to sell up to half of its stake in Internet entrepreneur Jack Ma's Alibaba Group back to the Chinese company for $7.1 billion, and hand most of the sale proceeds to its shareholders.
The deal caps years of discussions between the two companies over Alibaba reclaiming some or all of the 40 percent stake in the Chinese e-commerce firm that Yahoo bought for about $1 billion in 2005.Under the agreement, Yahoo Read more [...]
Listed firms report healthy Q1 profits
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Listed companies on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) have reported a combined first-quarter net profit of 212 billion baht, down by 5.09% year-on-year but up by 197% quarter-on-quarter.
As of Friday, 443 of the 475 SET-listed firms or 93.3% had filed their quarterly operating results.
Agriculture and food, services and natural resources were the top three sectors in terms of profit growth.
Sales revenue of all sectors increased by 18.6% year-on-year.
A total of 301 companies Read more [...]
Celebrity sellers have little effect on home prices
Their internationally recognized names sell music and movie tickets. They promote perfumes and presidents. But when it comes to selling their own houses, celebrities often find that their cachet doesn't pull in the cash.
Actors Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell haven't found a buyer for their Malibu beach house, which comes with a raft of celeb-friendly amenities including Read more [...]