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- InnVest REIT Reports Fourth Quarter Results Friday, March 12, 2010 @ 5:08AMTORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 12, 2010) - InnVest Real Estate Investment Trust ("InnVest" or the "Trust") (TSX:INN.UN) today announced financial results for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2009. Unless otherwise indicated, monetary data is in thousands of dollars, except for per unit, average daily rate ("ADR"), and revenue per available room ("RevPAR") amounts. "
- InnVest REIT Reports Fourth Quarter Results Friday, March 12, 2010 @ 5:00AMTORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - 03/12/10) - InnVest Real Estate Investment Trust ("InnVest" or the "Trust") (TSX: INN.UN - News ) today announced financial results for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2009. Unless otherwise indicated, monetary data is in thousands of dollars, except for per unit, average daily rate ("ADR"), and revenue per available room ("RevPAR") amounts. "Our ...
- The Observer Forum: Letters to the Editor Friday, March 12, 2010 @ 4:54AMIn response to "Park Road sidewalk moving forward" (March 9):
- All aboard! New rail travel perk launched for seniors visiting Ireland Friday, March 12, 2010 @ 4:26AMIf you are age 66 or over, free travel on Irish Rail awaits you in the 26 counties of the Republic, thanks to the new Golden Trekker program announced today by Tourism Ireland.
- Van Eck Finally Has Competition as States Street Launches Russia ETF Friday, March 12, 2010 @ 1:54AMInvest With An Edge submits: Thursday (3/11/2010) was the first day of trading for SPDR S&P Russia ETF . The fund follows the S&P Russia Capped BMI Index, which seeks to reflect the performance of investable stocks domiciled in Russia. RBL will compete mainly with Market Vectors Russia ETF , which until now has been the only way for U.S. investors to get pure Russia exposure in an ETF. Launched ...
- Ambond And Ambon Islam Funds Declare Income Distributions Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 11:54PMKUALA LUMPUR, March 12 (Bernama) -- AmMutual's AmBond and AmIslamic Funds Management's AmBon Islam have declared income distributions for their respective unitholders.
- March Interest Rates Decrease Slightly For GRATs, Sales To Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans And Split ... Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 11:31PMThe March applicable federal rate ("AFR") for use with estate planning techniques such as CRTs, CLTs, QPRTs and GRATs is 3.2%. The rate for use with a sale to a defective grantor trust, SCIN or intra-family loan, with a note of a 9-year duration (the mid-term rate, compounded annually), is 2.69%. These are slight decreases from February's rates.
- Paying for Mrs. Fuller Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 11:09PMBy Keith Yost STAFF COLUMNIST In 1935, Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act, an insurance program designed to cover against what were then considered the greatest financial risks in American society: disability, unemployment, loss of spouse or parents, and, most notably, old age. At the time, the poverty rate among the elderly was over 50 percent — the Great ...
- City Council considers Magoffin-area park Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 11:08PMEL PASO -- The low-income Magoffin neighborhood may soon get a small park.
- Man doesn't remember buying $1,500 worth of subscriptions Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 8:05PMThe magazine company insists the pastor bought them and forces him to pay.
- San Francisco tourism spending dropped in 2009 Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 7:50PMSan Francisco's revenue from tourism dropped nearly 8 percent in 2009 amid global financial uncertainty.
- Tourist spending dropped 7.8 percent in 2009 Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 5:45PMSan Francisco's revenue from tourism dropped nearly 8 percent in 2009 amid global financial uncertainty, according to a report released this week. The report, an annual estimate of the economic impact of the tourism industry in San Francisco was released by the Convention & Visitors Bureau, a...
- Report: SF Tourist Spending Dropped 7.8 Percent In 2009 Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 5:32PMSACRAMENTO, Calif. -- San Francisco's revenue from tourism dropped nearly 8 percent in 2009 amid global financial uncertainty, according to a report released this week.
- Essential Energy Services Trust Announces 2009 Fourth Quarter and Year End Results Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 4:24PMCALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - March 10, 2010) - Essential Energy Services Trust (TSX:ESN.UN) ("Essential" or the "Trust") announces 2009 fourth quarter and year end results. H
- Nielsen: "New Normal" Impacts Alcohol Beverages Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 3:35PMFebruary 08, 2010 - NEW YORK -- While there are recent signs that the U.S. economy has righted itself and is on a path to recovery, the road ahead faces significant headwinds that will make a true reversal protracted.
- /C O R R E C T I O N -- Cogdell Spencer Inc./ Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 2:59PMFeb-2010 by Cogdell Spencer Inc. over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations table, the Net income for Dec. 31, 2009 should read "1,956" rather than "" and Net income attributable to Cogdell Spencer Inc. for Dec. 31, 2009, should read "1,556 " rather than "" as originally issued inadvertently.
- Zargon Energy Trust Announces 2009 Fourth Quarter And Full Year Results Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 2:11PMCALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - March 10, 2010) - Zargon Energy Trust (TSX:ZAR.UN) (TSX:ZOG.B) ("Zargon" or the "Trust") today announced its operating and financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2009. H
- Standard Parking Corporation Reports Solid 2009 Results; 2010 Guidance of $1.10 - $1.20 EPS and $20 - $25 Million Free ... Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 2:03PMCHICAGO -- Standard Parking Corporation , one of the nation's leading providers of parking management, ground transportation and other ancillary services, today announced full year 2009 earnings of $0.90 per share, which reflects a $0.12 per share charge attributable to the tentative settlement of two California labor code violation cases and a $0.07 per share charge for costs incurred in ...
- WITHOUT A BIG BANG Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 1:12PMSeveral commentators on the various television shows after the budget used practically the same words to describe the Union budget for the next fiscal year.
- Universal Hospital Services, Inc. Announces 2009 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 1:05PMEDINA, Minn.----Universal Hospital Services, Inc. , a leading medical equipment outsourced solutions company, today announced financial results for the quarter and twelve months ended December 31, 2009.
- Study: Shopper Behavior to Change Permanently Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 10:40AMBaby boomers led the U.S. out of a downturn in the last two recessions, but this time around, it will be Gen Xers and millennials paving the way to economic recovery, according to a new report issued by PricewaterhouseCoopers today (Tuesday).
- US Secretary of Labor testifies before House appropriations subcommittee on fiscal year 2011 budget [03/10/2010] Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 10:06AMSecretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies. Secretary Solis presented the department’s fiscal year 2011 budget request and highlighted why the funding is vital to the nation’s ongoing economic recovery.
- Defaults on student loans rising Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 7:19AMEvery year, tens of thousands of college students and graduates stop making payments on their student loans. For more than a decade, that loan-default rate was in decline because the federal government toughened penalties for schools with high shares of defaults.
- Game has changed for Atlantic City Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 1:51AMCasino industry analysts had predicted gaming revenues in Atlantic City would decline to the tune of 3 to 5 percent a year for a couple of years after the introduction of slot parlors in Pennsylvania.
- Defaults on student loans rising Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 1:15AMAdvocates cite tuition, loose lending, low wages.
- Financial Sense: Rethink tax refund loans Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 12:07AMYou've probably heard the pitches for "refund anticipation checks" or "quick tax loans." The official name is refund anticipation loans, or RALs. They're marketed primarily to cash-poor taxpayers who use their annual federal and state tax refunds as a piggy bank for discretionary items or thanks to a struggling economy, essentials such as food and housing. In tough times, these high-cost loans ...
- Money Help Desk: Satisfaction after survey wrecked my bid to buy flat Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 4:30PMFOLLOWING your story ("Dreams dashed by home survey", 15 November 2009) about my attempt to buy a flat, which failed because the mortgage lender's surveyor
- A positive drive for auto sector Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 11:04AMThe Union Budget 2010 or the Aam Aadmi Budget, as christened by the Finance Minister, seeks to sustain demand in the economy by increasing the disposable income in the hands of the aam aadmi.
- Letters to the Editor published Saturday, March 6, 2010 Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 10:35AMThis letter is a reply to Gary Del’Abate’s letter (Pilot, Feb. 27). O si yo (hello) Gary, to hi tsu (how are you). I too am native American and I too am saddened that our ancestors were killed and driven from their homelands.
- Drinking sugar-sweetened beverages daily linked to diabetes Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 12:55AMMore Americans now drink sugar-sweetened sodas, sport drinks and fruit drinks daily, and this increase in consumption has led to more diabetes and heart disease over the past decade, researchers reported at the American Heart Association's 50th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention.
- Dicks picked to chair powerful defense-budget panel Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 5:23PMIt took three weeks — or three decades, depending how you count it — but Rep. Norm Dicks finally got tapped for the job he's always coveted: chairman of the House subcommittee that controls the Pentagon's purse strings.
- Trican 2009 Fourth Quarter and Year End Results Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 4:38PMCALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - March 4, 2010) - Trican Well Service Ltd. (TSX:TCW): /
- Trican 2009 Fourth Quarter and Year End Results Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 4:22PMCALGARY, ALBERTA-- - Trican Well Service Ltd. :
- Slashing the Deficit without Massive Tax Hikes Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 2:49PMPresident Obama has asked a high-level commission to come up with ways to shrink the shortfall drastically by 2015. Doing so won't be painless...but it's possible
- Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Costco Wholesale Corporation, BJ's Wholesale Club Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Big Lots Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 2:00PMCHICAGO----Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets.
- Pembina Pipeline Income Fund reports strong 2009 financial results Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 1:28PMPembina Pipeline Income Fund released its 2009 financial results today reporting year-over-year increases in revenue, net operating income, net earnings and cash flow from operating activities.
- Newfoundland Capital Corporation Limited - Fourth Quarter 2009 - Period Ended December 31, 2009 (unaudited) Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 1:01PMNewfoundland Capital Corporation Limited , one of Canada's leading radio broadcasters, today announces its financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2009.
- 'Hangover Budget' Pleases Few (in News) Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 10:28PMHousing spending up, but Libs draw fire from health, education, environment sectors.
- Salt Lake City budget: 'It's beyond bad' Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 10:23PMSalt Lake City's budget is barren, bleeding and bleak. And now, it includes a record deficit. Two months before Mayor Ralph Becker will present his "balanced" fiscal-year 2011 budget, the city's financial team is projecting nearly a $20 million gap, meaning severe service cuts, employee
- Medical society planning rally to protest state payment delays Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 9:54PMSangamon County Medical Society officials hope Springfield’s medical community turns out in force for a Statehouse rally to protest a growing backlog of unpaid bills for care of state workers and retirees.
- Tories hope spending will get Canadians back to work Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 9:22PMThe federal government will unveil a new economic agenda for Canada, aimed at getting the country’s 1.5 million unemployed back to work with billions of dollars in investments to spur creation of cutting-edge jobs in the knowledge-based economy.
- Five steps to rethinking your retirement plan Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 9:08PMOne year after the start of the crash, your 401(k) or IRA is pretty much back to even, according to some studies at least. Now you can get on with the rest of your life, and with planning your future finances.
- Daylight Resources Trust Reports Year End 2009 Financial and Operating Results-Reserve Additions Replace 600% of ... Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 8:17PMCALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - March 2, 2010) - Daylight Resources Trust (TSX:DAY.UN) Q
- Catastrophe fears cinch belts Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 7:02PMAmericans who shopped till they dropped have stopped. Per capita consumption is down for two straight years, according to Booz & Company's new study of U.S. spending behavior. That hasn't happened since the Great Depression.
- U. Way has cause to celebrate Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 6:02PMMICHIGAN CITY — When the United Way of La Porte County kicked off its 2009 fund-raising campaign, there was cause for concern from multiple corners, not least of all the manufacturing sector.
- Trintech Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2010 Financial Results and an Agreement to Sell Its Healthcare Division Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 4:29PMDUBLIN, Ireland and DALLAS -- Trintech Group Plc today announced revenues of $7.9 million for the fourth quarter ended January 31, 2010, an adjusted EBITDA net income of $1.4 million and net income for the quarter of $910,000 from continuing operations.
- Stephen's announces second bid for 151st District Thursday, February 25, 2010 @ 12:42AMThe owner of a pool supply company calling for the reintroduction of “freedom and personal responsibility in government” recently received the Republican endorsement to challenge U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz, D-13.
- Casino profits fall locally, across state and in Louisiana Thursday, February 25, 2010 @ 12:27AMMississippi’s state-licensed casinos reported January revenues of $193.2 million, up about $8.3 million from December — but down $24.6 million compared to January 2009, a 16 percent decrease.
- Stillwater Mining Reports 2009 Results Wednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 10:50PMCOLUMBUS, MT--(Marketwire - February 25, 2010) - STILLWATER MINING COMPANY ( NYSE : SWC )
- Stillwater Mining Reports 2009 Results Wednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 10:36PMCOLUMBUS, MT--(Marketwire - 02/25/10) - STILLWATER MINING COMPANY (NYSE: SWC - News ) -- PGM prices improve throughout 2009 -- Mine production and cost performance exceed guidance, validating late 2008 operation restructuring plan -- Recycling business steadily strengthening -- Prior production and cost guidance for 2010 maintained -- Completion of second electric furnace increasing processing ...
