Commercial Property Bucks Gloomy Trend In Housing Market

The media are bombarding us with bad news stories about the residential property market.
For example, it was reported the Nationwide Building Society’s latest survey showed house prices recorded their largest monthly fall since 1991.
Prices dropped 2.5 per cent in May and are apparently now 4.4 per cent lower than a year ago, a fall of [...]

Time To Put Investment Banking Back In Its Box: Mark Gilbert

The rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed,” U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt told a Depression-blighted nation in his 1933 inauguration address. “There must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing.”
Fast-forward three-quarters of [...]

Downgrades Top Us Investment Banks

Chennai, June 3 International rating agency, Standard & Poor’s (S & P) has lowered its ratings on a number of top investment banking companies in the United States. S & P has downgraded Lehman Brothers Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., and Morgan Stanley.
According to a press release issued by S & P, it has [...]

Is Canada Recession Bound

Canadian growth shrank 0.3% in the first quarter, as a wrenching restructuring in the manufacturing sector hobbled an economy half-way in recession.
It was the first decline in annualized growth in nearly five years and the weakest in the Group of Seven, behind the United States, Britain, Europe and even Japan.
“This is a bitterly disappointing and [...]

First Quarter Growth Faster Than Expected

The economy grew at an annualized rate of 5.4 percent in the first three months of the year, racing ahead of the gloomy growth outlooks issued by the Bank of Israel and the Finance Ministry.
“The positive data is an indication for how well the Israeli economy can cope amid a global financial crisis,” Finance Minister [...]

Investment Advice Experts

Brewin Dolphin is the only UK investment management firm to have its investment banking division headquarters outside London. Francesca Craggs speaks to Graeme Summers, who heads the Newcastle-based operation.
THINK investment banking and the City of London or Wall Street probably springs to mind. Not many people may know the North East can boast its very [...]

April 26, 2008 Precious Metal Stock Review

It’s funny how Gold was smashed down so strongly just before options expiry. Investment Opportunity It seems the shorts lured in as many longs as possible with Gold over $950 and looking strong not too long ago just to be taken down below $890 on expiry day. If Gold had closed above $890 many longs [...]

Announces Stable Earnings And Assets Reaching $900 Million

Eagle Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) EGBN, the parent company of EagleBank, today announced net income of $1.7 million ($0.17 per basic share and per diluted share) for the three months ended March 31, 2008, compared to $1.7 million ($0.18 per basic share and $0.17 per diluted share) for the three months ended March 31, 2007.
“We [...]

Tuesday Newspaper Review Irish Business News And International Stories

Typically internet users don’t need 25mps or anything like it but speeds of this magnitude would be a boon to Irish industry and would give us a real leg up when it comes to fighting for inward investment.
Investment Opportunity It is understood that Eircom has promised that if the Government signs up to its proposals [...]

Stocks rebound from sharp sell-off

Stocks had wobbled in the early going Thursday after the Labor Department said the number of newly laid off workers filing for unemployment benefits rose last week by a more-than-anticipated 22,000 to 378,000. That level is the highest in nearly two months.
But Wall Street found reason to buy back into stocks when the [...]