Shares of Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) closed the previous trading session at $66.91, experiencing a change of 0.22% with 1,837,362 shares trading hands. The stock holds an average trading capacity of 3.17M shares for the past three months. When we compare its current volume with average
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Dar es Salaam â Growth of the mortgage market slowed down last year despite an increase in the number of players, a new report shows. The annual growth rate in Tanzania last year was six per cent, down from 16 per cent in 2016, according to the latest Tanzania Mortgage Market update by the Bank
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ARRIS International logo ARRIS International plc (NASDAQ:ARRS) CEO Bruce William Mcclelland purchased 1,500 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, February 22nd. The shares were bought at an average cost of $24.72 per share, with a total value of $37,080.00.
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Not only will first-time buyers face fierce competition in a tighter and pricier housing market, the quality of available starter homes appears to have diminished. Today, starter homes are less likely to be move-in ready with fixer-uppers making up 11.2% of the market, up from 10.3% in 2012. Most notably
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – A gauge of U.S. mortgage applications to buy a home climbed to a six-week high as 30-year home borrowing costs lingered at four-year … The interest rates on 30-year fixed-rate conforming mortgages, or loans with balances of $453,100 or less, averaged 4.68 percent last week.
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Before taking my current position, I spent my nights and weekends teaching pre-licensing class to aspiring real estate agents. It always struck me as noteworthy how many in my classes were not fresh out of high school or even college. Most of my students were in their 30s, 40s and 50s, with real estate
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The average rate on a five-year Treasury-indexed adjustable-rate mortgages is currently about 3.67 percent, according to Freddie Mac. ARM rates are modified annually, so a 0.25 percentage point increase in the rate in March wouldn't have an immediate effect. But when it does kick in, it could add up to
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Lending at Maine's 56 credit unions grew by $355 million to $5.5 billion in 2017, an increase of nearly 7% over 2016, according to a year-end tally released by the Maine Credit Union League on Tuesday. Combined assets grew by more than $265 million to $7.55 billion. Maine's credit unions also
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Cross-industry coordination around response and recovery mechanisms are essential to mitigating the systemic consequences of a large-scale cyberattack, according to a white paper published today by The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). DTCC, which released the paper on 20
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BEIJING, March 21 (Reuters) – China has named Guo Shuqing as the head of the newly formed regulator for the banking and insurance sectors, financial publication Caixin reported on Wednesday without citing a direct source. Guo had been the head of the China Banking Regulatory Commission,
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Local existing home sales and listings remain on upward trend despite pockets of limited inventory, the Winston-Salem Regional Association of … Michael S. Clapp & Associates, a local real-estate research firm, said in its March 13 report that 1,353 homes were sold in the first two months of 2018, up 3.5
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The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said completed sales transactions of pre-owned single-family houses, condos, townhomes, and … “Mortgage rates are at their highest level in nearly four years, at a time when home prices are still climbing at double the pace of wage growth,” said Yun.
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Sales of previously owned homes rose more than expected in the first gain in three months, indicating that job gains and tax cuts are supporting demand despite low supply, National Association of Realtors data showed Wednesday. Contract closings increased 3% month-over-month to a 5.54 million
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The 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 4.44 percent last week, not too far from a four-year high of 4.46 percent, according to mortgage finance agency Freddie Mac. With the Federal Reserve expected on Wednesday to raise interest rates to prevent the economy from overheating, against the
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Anna Marrs, Standard Chartered's CEO for Commercial & Private Banking, poses FILE PHOTO – Anna Marrs, Standard Chartered's CEO for Commercial & Private Banking, poses for a picture at the Reuters Wealth Management Summit in Singapore, June 14, 2016. REUTERS/Raj Narwani.
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A.M. Best said AmTrust Financial Services, Inc.'s Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of âbbbâ was unchanged by the closing of the sale of a 51 percent interest in a … Earlier this year, the families who own a significant share of AmTrust proposed buying the company's outstanding shares and going private.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) â Standard Chartered PLC's chief executive of private and commercial banking is leaving the bank to join another financial services company in London, the emerging markets-focussed lender said on Wednesday. Anna Marrs, who is also StanChart's chief executive
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For the Sowers, Highland Hills was the beginning of an empire; nearly every family member since has been involved in some facet of the real estate business. To understand the Sowers' involvement with creating this historic neighborhood, we interviewed Mark Sowers, president of Oakbridge Corp. and
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Sycamore's $6.8 billion purchase of Staples was the largest U.S. leveraged buyout of 2017. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. By. Khadeeja Safdar and. Khadeeja Safdar. The Wall Street Journal. BiographyKhadeeja Safdar · @khadeeja_safdar · KhadeejaSyedaSafdar · Google+
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LIMA, Peru (AP) â The revelation of secretly shot videos allegedly showing attempts to buy a lawmaker's political support has roiled Peru's political establishment two days before a scheduled impeachment vote against President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and amid a bitter feud between two powerful
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