Dow's Outgoing Chairman Got $65.7 Million in Pay for Last Year

Andrew Liveris, the outgoing chairman of DowDuPont Inc., nearly tripled his compensation last year to $65.7 million, bolstered by payments related to Dow Chemical's merger with DuPont Co. Liveris' compensation included a $1.9 million salary, $4.17 million annual bonus and equity grants of $16
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The Ohio Residential Mortgage Lending Act (ORMLA) becomes effective on March 23, 2018. Passed in December 2017 (H.B. 199), the ORMLA consolidates the regulation and licensing of first- and subordinate-lien mortgage loans into the statutory chapter containing the prior Mortgage Broker Act (Ohio
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Wheel Of Fortune Host Savages Politically Correct Celebrities With One Tweet. Issued: 2018-03-16. It's no secret that “Wheel Of Fortune” host Pat Sajak is a savage. Not only does he host America's Game, troll competing gameshow hosts like “Jeopardy's” Alex Trebek, and give out incredible family
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We had 35 sales in February, which is 4 sales above our 10-year average of 31 sales. February 2018 looks a little better after a slightly below average January. This up and down pattern has become the norm for the last few years. While our 10-year average sales line approximates a nice sine wave with
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From today Buckinghamshire Building Society's range of specialist mortgage products will be on offer to all intermediaries working in the SimplyBiz mortgage club. Buckinghamshire has joined the lending panel of SimplyBiz Mortgages. Andrew Craddock, chief executive of Buckinghamshire Building
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Steven Schwarz and Jenifer Davis Lunt are both commercial real estate developers and investors. Schwarz, a founding partner of Phoenix-based ViaWest Group, has done some investing in Social Leverage, which provides capital to startups. Davis Lunt, a principal with infill and adaptive-reuse firm
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The production company behind the series recently trademarked American Horror Story: Radioactive. Could that mean that season eight will deal with chemical warfare of sorts, or be set in a place affected by radioactive waste like Chernobyl? The one thing fans do know is when the upcoming episodes
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Walk into your local liquor store and you could be forgiven for thinking St. Patrick's Day was created by Guinness. It's the day for Ireland's favorite beer to shine—and 13 million pints of the stout will be consumed in those 24 hours. There's nothing wrong with Guinness, of course. (It's delicious!)
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Privately owned housing starts dropped by 7% from January's 1.33 million to 1.24 million in February, according to the latest release from the U.S. Census Bureau. This is also down 4% from 1.29 million in February 2017. But this decrease was due to a drop in multifamily building starts, as single-family
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Mortgage rates have been trending higher and have raised investor concern about their impact on the real estate market. Today's economic environment and market position are different than comparable periods, and mortgage rates are still extremely low. Demand for housing should burgeon as the
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After three gruelling London winters and another 12 years living in Doha, Manchester, Toronto, Beijing and Rome events organiser Di Henry has returned home to Sydney buying a terrace in Bondi Junction, which she has packed with retro furniture and objets d'art collected from her global travels.
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Al Petrilli, who was there from the beginning for the Viking Pride Foundation, as a board member, and later served as its chairman for three and a half years, has begun a new venture of his own. Petrilli, has joined NewFed Mortgage as a producing branch manager and opened a branch office in town.
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The lawyer for Stormy Daniels said Friday the former porn star was physically threatened to keep quiet about her claims of an extra-marital affair with Donald Trump before he assumed the presidency. Attorney Michael Avenatti declined to specify who threatened Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie
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Separately, builder confidence in the market for newly-built single-family homes fell by one point to a level of 70 in March from a downwardly revised February reading on the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). The HMI component gauging current
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Complaining about how much easier past generations had it—no smartphones to distract us, no high-fructose corn syrup to poison us—is a beloved pastime. But when it comes to buying a home in San Diego, little has changed. In a 1977 San Diego Magazine article titled “Are You Living Where You
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Hi all, it's Eric. Jim Chanos, the short seller famous for betting against Enron, has said he thinks Tesla Inc.'s stock is “worthless.” Chanos got some new evidence this week that may support his short sales against Elon Musk's car company. A string of executives have headed for the exits, including a
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What impressed me about Archway Homes was because of the volume [of purchases] they have in the KC area, they have a title company that works practically full-time with them, and we had a specific timeline regarding our needs to close.” Taking care of all title company closing work, switching over
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Investors could view the recent signs of softness in the real estate market as a sign of future headwinds for Home Depot. In other words, Home Depot stock could be a leading indicator of housing starts — which, again, are a leading indicator for the broad economy. And if investors are right about Home
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On cancelling banking licence of credit institution Wellton Bank. In accordance with Bank of Russia Order No. OD-635, dated 15 March 2018, the banking licence of the Belgorod-based credit institution Joint-stock Company Wellton Bank or JSC Wellton Bank (Registration No. 1105) was cancelled
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Self-driving cars are still working to master the snow. It turns out that excessive sun can also pose a problem for the coming wave of robot drivers. The threat comes from solar storms, those occasional eruptions of vast amounts of energy that can cause a massive spike in geomagnetic activity and
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