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Real estate tycoon Donald Trump is considering whether to either buy or manage Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village housing complex in Manhattan, the New York Post reported.
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Foreclosures hammer Sun Belt states
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Las Vegas, Cape Coral and Merced among hot spots
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NEW YORK—The New York State Insurance Department is again modifying its producer compensation disclosure rule, Insurance Superintendent James Wrynn told a group of insurance agents.
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International Business Times UK Jan 30 2010 4:16AM GMT
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NEW YORK (Reuters)—A controversial regulatory filing detailing the federal bailout of American International Group Inc.
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Aging Buyers Want Easy, Comfortable Homes with First-Floor Master Bedroom
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By the time you read this sentence of my column, another baby boomer will have turned 50 years old–it happens every seven seconds. The Baby Boomer generation makes up about 28 percent of the population and has some interesting statistics. According to BabyBoomerMagazine.com, this group has greater wealth than any other, controls 70 percent of the total net worth of American households, and accounts for 40 percent of total consumer demand.
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Most fairytales have a catch word or phrase that, when repeated, makes all the danger and pain magically — "poof!" — disappear into thin air: "Rumpelstiltskin," "Beetlejuice," "There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home." Today, the mainstream financial world lives in a fantasy where such a word exists, too; that word is "different."
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U.S. President Barack Obama lunched on Tuesday with executives from a range of industries to discuss the economy, according to a White House official.
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Breast cancer patient battles insurer; recession burdens charity clinics
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News outlets report on a patient’s struggle to get coverage for cancer treatment and over-burdened charity clinics. The New York Times has a ‘Neediest Cases’ series profile. “Rashidam Shakirova moved from Atlanta to New York in 2008 so she could earn
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Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc. to Release 4th Quarter 2009 Financial Results
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LANCASTER, Pa., Jan. 29 LANCASTER, Pa., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ –Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: EIHI) announced today that it plans to release financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2009, following the close of
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