Monthly Archives: July 2015

Luxury home sales in Calgary nosedive due to falling oil prices

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Calgary’s luxury home resale market has taken a hit in 2015 with $1-million property transactions down 36 per cent from last year’s record level. Sothebys International Realty Canada, in a market update Thursday, said “fluctuations in oil prices and continued economic uncertainty are expected to dampen Calgary’s high-end real estate market in the last six months of the year,” noting the NDP government’s fall provincial budget could also influence sales. Its Top-Tier Real Estate Read more [...]

Major shareholders of Hong Kong listed mainland companies vow not to sell …

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Several Hong Kong-listed mainland Chinese companies pledged not to sell off their A share stock investments and their majority shareholders will not sell off shares but consider increasing their stakes in the listed companies. A rout in mainland equities has dragged Shanghai and Shenzhen indices and the Hong Kong market to their lowest in almost four months, abruptly ending a rally that has lifted markets here to 7-year highs in mid-June. The People’s Insurance Company (Group) of China said it Read more [...]

China Central Huijin Investment won’t sell holdings of publically listed shares

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More from the China press this morningThis from a the China Securities Journal report, (via MNI):China Central Huijin Investment and its subsidiaries won't sell their holdings of publically listed shares as they try to help the stock market Subsidiaries of the domestic arm of sovereign-wealth fund China Investment Corp. will be encouraged to buy more sharesHuijin has been buying ETFs in the secondary market and will keep doing so, it says Read more [...]

Today at the Buxton Festival & Fringe – Thursday July 9

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Listings for the Buxton Festival and Buxton Festival Fringe for Thursday July 9. DAILY EVENTSDaily 9:30am to 4:30pm DERBYSHIRE STONE: High Peak Artists (33f) (VA) During opening hours (closed Mondays) THE DERBYSHIRE OPEN 2015: Buxton Museum Art Gallery (7) - Visual Arts During opening hours (closed Mondays) THE HIGH LINES: Brian Adams (7) (VA)THURSDAY JULY 910:30am to 5:30pm - FRAGILE DREAMS IN SOLID STONE: The Green Man Gallery (86) (VA) 11:00am to 12:30pm - MAKING YOUR Read more [...]

Listed: 10 schools on Teesside which pay their teachers the highest average …

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Stockton is home to one of the lowest paid secondary schools in England. The average pay for a full-time teacher working at Our Lady and St Bede RC School, Elm Tree, is £25,632 a year, according to latest data from the Department for Education. This makes it the least well-paying secondary school on Teesside - and the second least well-paying in England. Egglescliffe School was the second least generous school in the area when it comes to average teacher pay - with full-time teachers earning £34,715 Read more [...]

Digby Pines and Liscombe Lodge listed for sale

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The properties are for sale together or separately. The Nova Scotia Tourism Agency posted a request for proposals May 7, for real estate broker services saying, “TNS’s objective is to hire a real estate broker firm with strong and proven hotel and resort expertise to assist in divesting the province’s interests in the ongoing ownership, operation and management of the two resorts either collectively or separately.” Cushman and Wakefield Atlantic bills themselves as the largest commercial Read more [...]

Digby Pines and Liscombe Lodge listed for sale – Business – Nova News Now

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The properties are for sale together or separately. The Nova Scotia Tourism Agency posted a request for proposals May 7, for real estate broker services saying, “TNS’s objective is to hire a real estate broker firm with strong and proven hotel and resort expertise to assist in divesting the province’s interests in the ongoing ownership, operation and management of the two resorts either collectively or separately.” Cushman and Wakefield Atlantic bills themselves as the largest commercial Read more [...]

Digby Pines and Liscombe Lodge listed for sale

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The properties are for sale together or separately. The Nova Scotia Tourism Agency posted a request for proposals May 7, for real estate broker services saying, “TNS’s objective is to hire a real estate broker firm with strong and proven hotel and resort expertise to assist in divesting the province’s interests in the ongoing ownership, operation and management of the two resorts either collectively or separately.” Cushman and Wakefield Atlantic bills themselves as the largest commercial Read more [...]

Shares of U.S.-Listed Chinese Companies Plunge – MoneyBeat – WSJ

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By Dan Strumpf CONNECT Associated Press Shares of Chinese companies listed on U.S. exchanges have plunged in recent weeks along with the broader Chinese stock market. Scores of Chinese companies trade on U.S. exchanges, often in the form of American Depositary Receipts, or ADRs, which typically represent a bundle of shares that trade on foreign exchanges. U.S.-listed shares that have tumbled in recent weeks include well-known Chinese firms like e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Read more [...]