Atrium Mortgage Investment Corp to Issue Monthly Dividend of $0.07 (AI)

Atrium Mortgage Investment logo Atrium Mortgage Investment Corp (TSE:AI) announced a monthly dividend on Thursday, December 28th, TickerTech reports. Investors of record on Friday, January 12th will be paid a dividend of 0.0733 per share on Friday, January 12th. This represents a $0.88 dividend
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Inc. increased its holdings in American International Group by 9.8% in the 2nd quarter. Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. now owns 88,877 shares of the insurance provider's stock worth $5,557,000 after buying an additional 7,963 shares in the last quarter. AXA increased its holdings in American International
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Senior Life Insurance Company continued its annual holiday tradition this year in support of the Salvation Army of Thomasville. The company's home office employees rang the Red Kettle bell at Publix and donated money to participate in the company's annual “Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest.”
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This twilight period between December 25 and the new year is a funny time, a fug of nostalgia, indigestion and drooping Christmas trees. It's also when experts like to get out their crystal balls and make predictions for the year ahead — and the housing market is no exception. Property prices have risen
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Eddie Hearn, promoter of IBF, IBO, WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (20-0, 20 KOs), hopes to cut away any loose strings and finalize a deal in the coming days for a unification showdown with WBO king Joseph Parker (24-0, 18 KOs). The two sides, after weeks of negotiations, finally reached
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Family Bank has laid off 150 employees sending the number of bankers out of work this year to 2083, the worst turnover in recent years. The lender, which let go about 100 staff across its branches in December last year, through voluntary early retirement, attributed this to depressed economic
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WilLiam Masvinu once believed taking part in a contest to choose the “ugliest man” in Zimbabwe was his only ticket out of poverty. He had made the Mr Ugly title his own since he took part in the competition for the first time in 2012. However, five years later, the heavily built father of three remains a
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We suspect the risk is lower due to the economic stagnation in recent months, and uncertainties stemming from the domestic housing market and the US (including NAFTA). The US dollar broke out of the consolidative range that persisted since late October. The sell-off saw it approach the 50%
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For young white-collar worker Ada Shen, it did not take her long to get familiar with the new “intelligent” teller machine at an Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) branch in the downtown Jingan district. The 31-year-old rarely visits bank branches nowadays, and even when she goes, she
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Lloyds Banking Group logo Lloyds Banking Group (LON:LLOY)'s stock had its “sell” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Goldman Sachs Group in a research note issued to investors on Tuesday, December 5th. They currently have a GBX 53 ($0.71) price objective on the financial services provider's stock.
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The number of new home loans taken out dropped to a 15-month low last month, according to the UK Finance trade association. … The EY Item Club, a leading economic forecaster, expects 2018 to be “a very challenging year for the housing market, with activity likely to be lacklustre and house price
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Capstead Mortgage logo BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA lifted its stake in Capstead Mortgage Co. (NYSE:CMO) by 43.8% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 60,783 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock after
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This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners. Yes, I know, some of you will say that the United States is a republic, not a democracy. Sorry: For most practical purposes, we should treat the terms as synonyms, and then specify what kind of
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The year 2017 has had its ups and downs. Mathematically, however, one thing is certain: The entire year has been prime time. For a math geek like me, the properties of numbers are a source of excitement and fun. In that spirit, it's a joy to point out that 2,017 is a prime number — that is, an integer only
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For those who resolve every new year to get in shape, it could spare the expense of a pricey gym membership. Scientists have discovered a tiny skin patch that can reduce body fat by almost a third. It turns energy-storing 'bad' white fat into energy-burning brown fat over four weeks, using hundreds of
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“One of the big wild cards for next year is there's going to be a real escalation in terms of U.S.-China trade tensions, and I don't think the market's pricing that at the moment,” Nordvig said in a Bloomberg Television interview Thursday. “The North Korea issue has delayed the U.S.-China issue really
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Mortgage rates were unchanged again today, keeping them at the same stronger levels achieved on Wednesday afternoon. Wednesday's gains were much-needed as they went a long way toward erasing the damage from a quick spike that took rates to the highest levels in months last week.
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It is often the senior citizens' heirs who do not like the reverse mortgage. This is because sometimes (not always), the equity in the senior citizen's home is diminished by the reverse mortgage over time, leaving the children feeling as though they have been disinherited or cut out of something that was
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The 13 institutions violated lending rules by helping China Guangfa Bank to conceal bad assets, the China Banking Regulatory Commission said on Friday. The regulator said it confiscated a total of 661 million yuan in illegal income and handed out same amount of fines, bringing the total sanction to
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Washington, D.C. – Nationally, interest rates on conventional purchase-money mortgages increased from October to November, according to several indices of new mortgage contracts. The National Average Contract Mortgage Rate for the Purchase of Previously Occupied Homes by Combined Lenders
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