by Susanne Dwyer | Jun 27, 2010 | For Your Clients, Marketing, News |
RISMEDIA, June 28, 2010—(MCT)—Ending more than two weeks of often-contentious negotiations, House and Senate lawmakers reached agreement on the most far-reaching rewrite of financial rules since the Great Depression. The final details, including creation of an agency...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jun 27, 2010 | For Your Clients, News |
RISMEDIA, June 28, 2010—(MCT)—Call it nostalgic neckwear if you must, but any way you twist the trend, bow ties are back. Sales of the ties, dismissed for years as a quirky accessory for your old chemistry professor or oddball uncle, are up. Even as sales of...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jun 26, 2010 | For Your Clients, Marketing, News |
RISMEDIA, June 26, 2010—(MCT)—When the going gets tough, the houses get smaller. Or at least that’s what data from the U.S. Census Bureau are suggesting. The average size of a new single-family house shrank significantly from 2008 to 2009, the census figures...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jun 26, 2010 | For Your Clients, News |
RISMEDIA, June 26, 2010—Got a hundred bucks and a free weekend? Then you’ve got what it takes to invest in some yard care improvements. “Some of the best upgrades to your yard can be done with a few dollars and a few hours,” says Trey Rogers, Ph.D.,...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jun 24, 2010 | For Your Clients, Marketing, News |
RISMEDIA, June 25, 2010—(MCT)—Sales of newly built U.S. homes collapsed in May 2010, the government said recently, falling to a record low and stirring concerns among some economists that the housing market would stumble again now that a popular federal tax credit for...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jun 24, 2010 | For Your Clients, Marketing, News |
RISMEDIA, June 25, 2010—(MCT)—Taking aim at homeowners who are able to pay their mortgage but decide it’s not worth it, Fannie Mae plans to go after them in court and to limit their access to home loans for seven years. The government-controlled mortgage giant...