At 12noon (AEST), the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.9372/77, down from Friday’s close of $US0.9421/25.
During the morning, the local unit traded between a low of $US0.9377 and a high of $US0.9423.
The housing finance data came in well below expectations and pushed the Australian dollar below a key support level of $US0.9380, Easy Forex senior [...]
The housing slump continues to deepen, gathering pace across new and existing home sales; something investors will have to keep in mind as they assess the Westpac move on St George.
Housing finance is the safest and most profitable form of bank lending, especially with all the added services for personal banking like credit cards, personal [...]
Agilysys, Inc., a leading provider of innovative information technology and hospitality software solutions, announced today that Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville, La. has selected Agilysys to provide a wide range of software solutions for the 531-room property, which recently completed an expansion that added an eight-story atrium and more than 200 guest rooms.
Paragon Casino Resort [...]
Poor Allegra. She’s a writer with a novel already under her belt. She’s good-looking. A free spirit, she lives in a rent-controlled apartment in New York City, unbound by traditional social constraints. But she’s just been dumped by Samantha, her girlfriend of nine months, who has decided she wants a long-term commitment. Since Allegra is [...]
NativeEnergy Travel Offsets is pleased to announce their partnership with the Association of Travel Marketing Executives in offsetting the carbon emissions associated with this year’s ATME Annual Conference in recognition of the important leadership role the travel industry is poised to take on in the fight against global warming. ATME values and supports efforts to [...]
NativeEnergy Travel Offsets is pleased to announce their partnership with the Association of Travel Marketing Executives in offsetting the carbon emissions associated with this year’s ATME Annual Conference in recognition of the important leadership role the travel industry is poised to take on in the fight against global warming. ATME values and supports efforts to [...]
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. announces today that The Westin Roco Ki Beach & Golf Resort is on schedule to open in May 2008. Destined to become one of the world’s most spectacular luxury properties, the 337-room resort will be located directly on a dedicated four-mile stretch of white sand beach in Punta [...]
Starwood Capital Group today announced that the recently launched “1†Hotel and Residences, the world’s first luxury, eco-friendly global hotel brand, will open New York City’s first five-star green hotel on West 40th Street in Manhattan, across from Bryant Park. The “1†Hotel and Residences will be part of a proposed 31-story mixed-use green tower [...]
The Grand Rotana Resort & Spa Sharm El Sheikh has triumphed as ‘Best Middle East & North Africa Resort of the Year’ at the DEPA Hotel Awards beating 26 participants although it has been open for less than 2 years.
The awards, attributed by live ‘Interactive Voting System’, were presented during a glittering ceremony at Dubai’s [...]
Pond View Village, a heralded experiment at turning a former industrial site into 124 units of heavily subsidized affordable and market-rate housing, has been unable to sell condos in a glutted market and has defaulted on its main lender.
It teeters at the brink of foreclosure.
Cape Ann Housing Opportunity, the community-based nonprofit organization that last year [...]
The Fairbury City Council will move forward with a federal grant application that ultimately could lead to a hotel or motel.
“The city conducted an economic study about 10 years ago and it indicated a motel or hotel was a high priority, said city superintendent Leroy McPherson. “It was on a list of projects the city [...]
In 1997, when Joseph Healy bought a $500,000 condominium on West Cooper Avenue, he put girlfriend Carmen Brannen’s name on the deed. They’d just attended the Food & Wine Classic, and he was feeling romantic. He gave her a card: “Sweetheart, our first purchase together. How exciting.”
Healy said he meant it as a “confirmation of [...]
