trading places The end of the Celtic Tiger has meant it's easier and cheaper to hire plumbers, electricians and carpenters, who must now keep customers happy and reputations intact, writes John Cradden
206,000 mortgages taken out a year This is a substantially higher number than previously estimated. The figures come from a new detailed quarterly analysis of the mortgage market by the Irish Bankers Federation and PricewaterhouseCoopers.read more...
BridgeWater Is About a Fifth the Size Planned for in 1992 read more...
Lee's adds tool rental to services Lee's Building Center is now a complete one-stop-shopping for all your home improvement and building needs.Commentread more...
Thrifty's opening behind schedule Thrifty's Foods will have to demonstrate another virtue, patience, as its Coquitlam home is taking longer than expected to be built.via
WaMu Unveils Mortgage Broker Standards (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Washington Mutual Inc., the nation's sixth-largest home-mortgage lender in terms of volume, is asking mortgage brokers it works with to provide more information to borrowers.read more...
“Remember, in the face of deteriorating earnings in the U.S. last year, robust global earnings saved the day.”
In Roman mythology, Janus is the god of doorways, and January is in turn the doorway of the year. For Wall Street, this first month of 2008 has brought none of the optimism that the myth implies instead, a disappointing stream of economic and earnings reports has investors dreading what’s still to come.
With investors worried that the credit crisis is worsening and that a recession is all but likely, the Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell nearly 10 percent in the first 18 days of 2008. This month is shaping up to be the worst January on record for the well-tracked index since 1970, when blue chips shed 7.65 percent.
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