The housing market in the lower Hudson Valley saw another strong year of sales in 2017, according to market analysts at the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors. There were 18,854 residential sales of single-family houses, condominiums, cooperatives and two- to four-family buildings in
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Corporations eligible for the Fortune list were picked from the 1,000 biggest U.S. firms in terms of revenue, combined with foreign Global 500 businesses with revenue over $10 billion. The magazine ultimately narrowed down its list to 680 companies —spread across 29 countries, and prioritized by
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The sale of Libra Terminais — one of the oldest, established private container terminal operators in Brazil — appears to be moving closer with word that Terminal Link, a joint venture between French carrier CMA CGM and China Merchant Holdings International (CMHI), has entered an exclusive
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The 2018 event was no different, with a faculty comprised of some of Chicago's leading commercial real estate firms engaged in an in-depth look at the marketplace, including the trends that took hold in 2017 and the headlines likely to be made in 2018. Danny Nikitas, the managing director of Avison
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India's banking sector has been burdened by nearly $150 billion of soured assets, the bulk of it with the state-backed lenders, crimping new lending. Retail-focused banks such as HDFC Bank and Kotak that have a relatively smaller exposure to the troubled metals and infrastructure sectors have fared
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The government had previously agreed that such corruption was a risk to the UK's international reputation and allowing it to continue ran the risk of helping to keep property prices artificially high. However, no action had yet been taken, which is why the peers had pushed for a timetable to be set by the
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Jon Corzine, who held the reins of MF Global Holdings when it collapsed, is making his comeback with a new hedge fund that's betting the Trump administration will stir up markets. The JDC-JSC Opportunity Fund, which bears the initials of Corzine's late son Jeffrey and his own, will launch this quarter
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Stewart has named Gary Bernier senior vice president of Stewart Title Guaranty Co. and district manager of New England, the company announced. Bernier will be responsible for agency operations in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, Stewart said.
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BURLINGTON, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Laboratory Corporation of America® Holdings (LabCorp) (NYSE: LH), a leading global life sciences company, today announced that it has been named to FORTUNE magazine's 2018 List of World's Most Admired Companies. The annual survey, conducted by
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The devastated fiancee of a footballer who collapsed on the pitch and died has been left struggling to pay off their £60,000 mortgage after he was refused life insurance. Mitchell Joseph's family and friends were stunned when he collapsed 30 minutes into his team's game on Saturday. The 33-year-old
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But to say Microsoft emerged victorious for having settled with Justice wasn't altogether right. Thank you to Pallavi Guniganti for pointing this out to me on Twitter. ***. For the 11th consecutive year Apple ranks No. 1 on Fortune's list of World's Most Admired Companies. The full list, published today,
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NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Hunt Mortgage Group, a leader in financing commercial real estate throughout the United States, announced today it provided a Freddie Mac Small Balance Loan to finance the acquisition of a multifamily property located in Tucson, Arizona. The total loan
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Construction and real estate development firm Broccolini announced Friday it had acquired more than 135,000 square feet of property in the heart of Montreal in a $100-million deal the firm says gives it the largest plot of developable real estate in the downtown area. The area, covered now by parking
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Raton, N.M. (AP) — A husband and wife who pushed for political change in Zimbabwe, an adventurous Texas investor and a pair of decorated pilots died in a fiery helicopter crash in a remote area in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Investigators will comb through the charred wreckage in search for clues as
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Home Capital, a lender that underwrites mortgages for people who have trouble qualifying to borrow at Canada's big banks, saw retail investors rush to pull their deposits last year after a regulator said former executives failed to properly disclose that brokers had been falsifying mortgage applications.
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Apple is the world's most admired company, as ranked by Fortune, for the 11th year in a row. Reproduced from Fortune; Chart: Axios Visuals. Show less. Keep reading35 Words. Other highlights: “In less auspicious news, GE plunged from No. 7 to No. 30, as its stock plummeted 45% in 2017. But on the
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Investors Title logo Bank of New York Mellon Corp lessened its stake in shares of Investors Title (NASDAQ:ITIC) by 8.0% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 5,990 shares of the insurance provider's stock
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Investors Title logo Dimensional Fund Advisors LP trimmed its stake in Investors Title (NASDAQ:ITIC) by 0.8% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 153,273 shares of the insurance provider's stock after
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The RE/MAX National Housing Report tells us what most already knew: The median home price rose 8.1% year-over-year, with 50 of the report's 54 … ditech Approved Correspondent Clients: be advised that all mortgage loans secured by a property located in the state of Maine, with a note date on or
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The WhatsApp mobile-messaging app is displayed on an iPhone in this arranged photograph taken in Hong Kong on Feb. 20, 2014. Brent Lewin—Bloomberg/Getty Images. By Kate Samuelson. 8:35 AM EST. Instant messaging service WhatsApp has officially launched WhatsApp Business, a separate
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