Bourse mulls consolidation of SME, second listing boards

  “We are proceeding with a review of our listing rules to enhance the safeguards for the investing public. One of the options we are looking at is consolidating both second and SME (small and medium enterprise) boards to enhance investment protection features,â€� Roel A. Refran, PSE chief operating officer, said in a statement released over the weekend. This comes as the PSE last Thursday announced that it was directing a review Read more [...]

Baldwin-Whitehall House Tour (Two Open Houses)

VIDEO ABOUT LIVING IN BALDWIN-WHITEHALL (produced by local school district officials): bwschools.net/bwsdpromovideo The Baldwin-Whitehall Patch provides another gallery of some of the residential real estate listings in our area. Houses eligible to be listed are any of those in the Baldwin-Whitehall School District. The B-W Patch will do its best to feature houses representing different price levels and representing different real estate agencies. The B-W Patch has no intention of favoring certain Read more [...]

Westminster sets an active agenda to celebrate national parks month

The City of Westminster's Department of Recreation and Parks is celebrating National Parks and Recreation Month with a number of events, including these listed below. Some are special events, others are simple suggestions to keep children and families active for the summer.The department is also hosting a "Parks of Westminster Scavenger Hunt," which involves visiting Read more [...]

NCB listed leader among Saudi and regional banks

(MENAFN - Arab News) The Banker magazine announced through its Top 1000 World Banks listing for its July 2012 publication that the National Commercial Bank (NCB) tops the banks in the Middle East in terms of solvency Tier 1 Capital, which is one of the most important criterion for measuring the strength of financial positions of banks and banking institutions.In addition to attaining this prominent position among the leading banks in Saudi Arabia, the GCC and the Middle East as per the core capital Read more [...]

Listed Abbey eyes up bids for Dublin land banks

Developer criticises property taxIRELAND'S only listed house builder, Abbey, is set to take a dramatic gamble on the struggling Irish property market -- by snapping up development land here this year."We are in the market for development land in Ireland, fundamentally in the Dublin area," Abbey chairman Charles Gallagher said last week. "We hope to buy something this year. It would seem that some of the prices being recorded when a property changes hands are below fair value. The market Read more [...]

Saw it on TE Patch

If you checked out the events listings on TE Patch Friday you might have seen the Wayne Art Center event posting about a free Shakespeare in The Park presentation of the comedy Loves Labour Lost. Lots of people were glad they did and the audience loved the laughs and enjoyed a mid summer night's entertainment at the Willows in Radnor. If you've got an event coming up that you'd like to tell everyone about, post it here on Patch. It's super-easy.  Just click on the button that reads "post an event". Read more [...]

BENEFITS OF LISTING

PHAM MINH NGUYET Array ( ) ) -->Stock market plays an important role in promoting economic growth and consumer confidence. Yet Pakistan stock market has been stagnant since the global recession in 2008 that hinders not only economic development but also industrialisation. In 2011, it witnessed four IPOs with a total size of Rs 1.8 billion in comparison with 17 IPOs in Read more [...]

Problem houses could be TV stars

Gloria Cust and Paul Chapman were unable to sell their Yeronga home after the Brisbane floods. Picture: Jono Searle IS YOUR house a TV star just waiting to be discovered? The LifeStyle Channel's Logie-winning series Selling Houses Australia is looking for homes to feature on its next series.Executive producer Sonia Harding said the homes must be owner-occupied and must Read more [...]

Message from MD, LSE

RECORDER REPORT Array ( ) ) -->Lahore Stock Exchange takes pride in welcoming you to the second Pakistan IPO Summit being organised at Karachi on Jul 14th, 2012. Our exchange has been involved with the initiative of the Pakistan IPO Summits right from the beginning and has enlisted the support of many potential IPO companies since the last year. The gradual increase Read more [...]

City’s air quality index expected to soar for second day in a row

EDMONTON —  A second consecutive day of poor air quality is expected throughout the Edmonton region on Saturday due to a smokey haze produced from wildfires that continue to burn out of control in the northwest region of the province. The province says there are nearly 30 fires in the Upper Hay region, 14 which are out of control. The biggest fire continues to be just outside Zama City in Mackenzie County that has singed 155,000 hectares since it was spawned by a lightning strike June 21.As Read more [...]