How Looser Banking Regulations Could Affect Investors

Let's talk first about community banks, because those are a pretty clear winner here. As I mentioned before the break, they've been on the decline. There's been a lot of mergers and acquisitions activity because they've had so much, in terms of regulatory stuff that they've had to respond to, that they've
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“We shared our outlook of the real estate market in the new year and it seems that even two months into 2018 we're already seeing records break,” said RE/MAX CEO Adam Contos. “The February 2018 median sales price of $228,700 marks the 22nd consecutive month of year-over-year price increases.
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After an up and down 2017, experts expect 2018 to bring stability to the real estate market. Brookfield senior managing partner Ric Clark; Laurie Golub, chief operating officer of Square Mile Capital; Jeffrey Levine, founder of The Douglaston Companies and Isaac Zion, SL Green's co-chief investment
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An interactive process, during which the employer and employee discuss how the employee's transition will be handled in the workplace, ensures the best outcome for both the employee, his/her coworkers and the company. We will continue to provide updates as the status of LGBTQ rights under Title
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DENVER — The Mile High City continues to have one of the most competitive housing markets in the country with some of the lowest housing inventory. According to the latest real estate market report from RE/MAX, Denver had about 4,200 active home listings in February. That amounts to about a
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“It's the result of a lot of the work we've done over the last couple of years,” A.C. Gallo, Whole Foods president and COO, told Fortune ahead of the meeting. The area where Amazon has really helped is speed, says Gallo. “Amazon moves very quickly,” he says. “So many of the things we wanted to do
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An old English proverb says “a fool and his money are soon parted.” On Monday, the Trump administration moved to make sure no American investors were foolish enough to part with their money in a way that would help the Venezuelan dictatorship. The new Trump executive order prohibits U.S.
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On my radio program last week, a regular contributor mentioned that a bill to eliminate payday lending had passed the Alabama Senate, and I was surprised. Having dealt with the issue back when I was in office, I think payday lending gets a bum rap out in the mainstream media. These short term loans
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EU President Donald Tusk sought to play down the impact of potential U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports as Europe braces for more conflict with President Donald Trump. Even if the EU doesn't manage to secure an exemption from Trump's tariffs, the impact will only affect about 1.5 percent of
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RE/MAX released their National Housing Report for March on Tuesday, covering the housing market trends for February 2018. This data is based on MLS info in 52 metro areas and shows while a lack of inventory is limiting February home sales, median month-over-month and year-over-year prices are
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Ethical finance advocates have welcomed the launch of a new initiative to promote organisations providing lower-cost loans. Speaking on Tuesday at the Responsible Finance annual conference in Glasgow, actor Michael Sheen declared that “today must be better than yesterday, and tomorrow better
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Kalanick said Tuesday he's buying a controlling stake in a distressed real estate company called City Storage Systems for $150 million and … “There are over $10 trillion in these real estate assets that will need to be repurposed for the digital era,” Kalanick wrote in a tweet announcing the acquisition.
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Contribution limits are waived in Illinois if any candidate gives more than $250,000 to their own bid, meaning there will be no limits to how much can be raised and spent on the governor's race. Pritzker told Bloomberg News in a February 2017 interview that he was willing to spend from his own personal
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Bank of America announced news on Tuesday (March 20) that customers can now add multiple credit and debit cards to their PayPal account without having to use a laptop or desktop computer. In a press release, Bank of America said customers can add cards through the bank's mobile banking app
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In this paper, we develop a dynamic spatial simulation model of coastal land and housing markets and study the competing influences of storm risks and amenities. The model is parameterized to the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, where hurricanes occur relatively infrequently, and then used to
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LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.—By just about every measure, West Virginia has the worst health in the nation. Its population is the country's most obese. The state, which has the highest number of opioid-addicted individuals per capita, is years into a devastating and unabating opioid epidemic. Many of its
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Korea Electric Power logo Silchester International Investors LLP lifted its stake in Korea Electric Power Co. (NYSE:KEP) by 3.4% during the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The fund owned 31,165,495 shares of the utilities provider's stock after
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Google Inc. has finalized its $2.4 billion purchase of the Chelsea Market building. Management company Jamestown Properties announced the sale of the former Nabisco factory on Tuesday. The building sits directly across from Google's New York City headquarters.
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Funding for the CMF, which was established by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, comes from the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the amount varies from year to year. The Local Initiatives Support Corp. (LISC) received the largest award at $7.5
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PrimeLending, a PlainsCapital Company, is a national residential mortgage originator. Since 2012, PrimeLending was been listed as a top 10 mortgage lender in the nation in purchase units.3 Offering fixed-rate, adjustable-rate, FHA, VA, USDA and jumbo home loans, refinancing and relocation
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