8 Sep 2008 at 5:09am The cut-rate prices of foreclosed homes were too good for Bill Mills to pass up, so he and a neighbor started buying houses together as investments in the spring of 2007. They have bought 16 and are about to close on the 17th. Their model: Pay cash ...
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8 Sep 2008 at 1:56am Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The following companies may have unusual price changes in Germany. Stock symbols are in parentheses and prices are from the previous close. DAX Index futures expiring in September rallied 181, or 3 percent, to 6,304 as of 8:25 ...
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8 Sep 2008 at 1:20am NEW YORK - When Honora Wolfe and her husband moved to the outskirts of Boulder, Colo., she wanted an environmentally friendly way to commute to her job as a bookshop owner in the city. Wolfe, 60, found her solution about a month ago: an electric ...
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7 Sep 2008 at 11:40pm GLENDALE ? Economic factors have created a deep funk in sales along Glendale?s Brand Boulevard of Cars, mirroring a national downturn in automobile purchases as customers continue to feel the pinch of an enduring housing slump, a pervasive credit ...
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4 Sep 2008 at 7:54pm Soaring fuel costs can potentially save us real money on our next vacation - if not in the short term, then down the road. The effects are already being seen across the board: hotel rooms, car rentals and counterintuitively, even airline tickets.
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3 Sep 2008 at 7:48pm Electricité de France is moving closer to a deal to buy British Energy , the nuclear generator, after talks with some of the UK company?s biggest investors have begun to bear fruit. The French utility, whose £12bn (?14.8bn) bid was rebuffed by ...
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2 Sep 2008 at 7:57pm The Wall Street Journal , aside from the Sarah Palin maelstrom, devotes its lead coverage to the plummeting fortunes of oil , even as the dollar and the battered stock market rebound. Future contracts for crude fell $5.75 to $109.71 yesterday?that ...
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