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Archive for March 17th, 2006
Friday, March 17, 2006 Private equity is all the rage By Ian Mylchreest Barely a day goes by without some company or another receiving an offer to be taken private and there's been talk of $100 billion funds and private equity companies going public. All of which means it's the new hot thing on Wall Street, reports USA Today.
Except as the paper points out, it's not that new. [...]
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Friday, March 17, 2006 Podcast pushes real estate By Ian Mylchreest Incline Village-based realtor Diane Cohn has started posting her sales pitches on the Web as podcasts, reports the Reno Gazette-Journal. The podcasts are available at her site, www.dianecohn.com.
The main targets are Bay Area residents seeking to buy in Northern Nevada. "It's just another piece of the online puzzle," Cohn tells the paper. "The Internet is [...]
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Friday, March 17, 2006 It's getting harder to pay the mortgage By Ian Mylchreest The national picture is not good, reports the Associated Press. Late payments climbed to a 2 1/2 -year high in the final quarter of 2005 mainly because of the problems in the Gulf Coast region. Elsewhere, rising energy prices also squeezed homeowners, say observers.
The Mortgage Bankers Assn., in its quarterly mortgage survey, reported [...]
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Friday, March 17, 2006 The news just gets worse for GM By Ian Mylchreest General Motors has revised it loss figures upwards, adding another $2 billion in costs to scale back its American operations and to bail out parts maker Delphi, reports the New York Times. And the company is sitting on its annual report until it can check accounting going back five years and iron out "irregularities" at [...]
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