Whitney MacMillan’s Montana Cattle Ranch Listed for $18 Million

A Montana cattle ranch co-owned by billionaire Whitney MacMillan has been listed for $18 million. Mr. MacMillan is the former CEO and a member of the founding family of the agribusiness giant Cargill Inc. He owns the roughly 40,000-acre PN Ranch near Winifred, Mont., with partner Matt Pierson of Highland Livestock. The property is being listed by Tim Murphy and Dave Johnson of Hall and Hall. Slideshow: Read more [...]

DIARY – Top Economic Events to July 31

July 18 (Reuters) - For other related diaries, please see; DIARY - U.S. Federal ReserveDIARY - European Central BankDIARY - Polling Unit DiaryDIARY - Today in WashingtonDIARY - Key World Financial EventsDIARY - Political and General newsDIARY - Index of all DiariesDIARY - Economic data forecastDIARY - Major Central Bank Events** This Diary is filed daily ** -----------------------------------------------------------TOP ECONOMIC EVENTSFRIDAY, JULY 18PARIS - IMF chief Christine Lagarde and Read more [...]

From listed Tudor building to new £5m super surgery

GPs at the Wokingham Medical Centre began this year practising in a 16th century building that the partnership had occupied since 1939.

By February they had moved a few streets away, to their new, ultra-modern, £5m super surgery, swapping leadlight windows and low beams for intelligent glazing and consulting rooms where

Series events will get you grooving

Music is everywhere you turn this weekend in the Lowcountry. From Sol Slam on the Isle of Palms to club shows to the events listed below, if you're a music fan, you'll likely be overwhelmed with options. Third Thursday Summerville, also known as the Flowertown in the Pines, will again be showing off all the "quaint little town" has to offer during its July Third Thursday event. From 5-8 p.m. Thursday, Summerville invites folks to come out to rest and relax. Stroll through Read more [...]

Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece for sale in Houston

This beautiful West Houston home is a stunning example of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright's vision of "organic architecture."  Walls of floor-to-ceiling windows let plenty of natural light into every room and bring the outdoors into the living space with serene views of the wooded 51,727 square-foot lot.  Located at 12020 Tall Oaks near Memorial and Gessner, the home is just as impressive as its designer, with 6-7 bedrooms, 6.5 bathrooms, 8,026 square feet of Read more [...]

Are Swiss trading houses turning into banks? Not quite

Reuters A BNP Paribas logo is pictured on a building of the bank in Geneva July 1, 2014. REUTERS/Pierre AlbouyBy Dmitry Zhdannikov and Ron Bousso LONDON (Reuters) - The world's top trading houses appear to be quickly turning into commodity finance banks, by lending billions of dollars to clients as a decades-long dominance of French banks shrinks. The fast growing trend has made big headlines in the past year every time a large Swiss trader provided financing to a counterparty, Read more [...]

Jackie Kennedy’s childhood home, in ‘world’s richest apartment building,’ is …

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's bridal portrait, 1953. She lived in Apartment 6/7A of her grandfather's building from …By Emily Heffter, Zillow Blog The Park Avenue apartment that was a childhood home of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is on the market for $44 million. The art deco-style building at 740 Park Avenue, dubbed the "world's richest apartment building," was developed by the former first lady’s grandfather in 1929. Jacqueline Bouvier moved in with her family as a toddler Read more [...]

Cambridge beats London to be named top location where houses sell fastest in …

According to the property website Rightmove, homes listed on its website in the university city take just 27 days to change hands – compared with 41 days across Greater London.Estate agents said Cambridge combines the enduring need for student housing with a boom as a base for science and technology firms. The pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has pledged to make the city its global hub, after it fought off a merger bid from US giant Pfizer.The city is also expecting a new £26 million railway Read more [...]

ASX-listed ERM Power not involved in Infratil’s Lumo sale

<!-- --> Article – BusinessDesk July 17 (BusinessDesk) – ERM Power, the ASX-listed energy company, isn’t in the running to buy Infratil’s energy assets across the Tasman.ASX-listed ERM Power not involved in Infratil’s Lumo sale By Suze Metherell July 17 (BusinessDesk) – ERM Power, the ASX-listed energy company, isn’t in the running to buy Infratil’s energy assets across the Tasman. Brisbane-based ERM Power is not involved in the sale process for Infratil-owned Read more [...]