LONGWOOD, Fla. - Emerson International recently negotiated six lease renewals totaling more than 25,000 square feet at its 100,000-square-foot Sanlando office development in Longwood.

Political candidates are being held responsible for leftover campaign signs found on public property along roads and sidewalks in one North Carolina city.

The Guilford County Sheriff's Department is trying to figure out who tied up and robbed a real estate agent at Tate Real Estate on Golf House Road last month.

More than half of real estate agents who responded to a survey believe that the national real estate market will hit bottom sometime in the beginning of 2009, according to the Campbell Communications marketing ...

General Growth Properties Inc. shares plummeted Tuesday after the mall owner warned it faces solvency trouble and may be forced to file for bankruptcy if it can't refinance or extend nearly $1 billion in debt ...

By Matt Carter , Friday, November 14, 2008. ForSaleByOwner.com may be helping homeowners put listings on Realtor.com, but don't call them "for-sale-by-owner" listings, site operator Move Inc.

Like all illegal immigrants, Lorenzo Jimenez knew the knock on the door from immigration agents could come at any time.

What will it take to get consumers off the sidelines to buy more houses and help stimulate the economy? How about a mortgage at 2.99 percent fixed rate for 30 years for anyone who purchases a home before next ...

Nov 17, 2008 8:22 pm US/Central LOS ANGELES Realtor John Occhi doesn't bother dressing up anymore.

The FBI is investigating several companies that allegedly bilked Native Hawaiian homeowners out of more than $300,000 by offering bogus foreclosure rescue bonds.

The homeowners were charged between $2,500 and $10,000 to attend seminars or counseling sessions on avoiding foreclosure. They were told they would receive bonds worth $1 million ......

The federal government keeps bailing out the financial industry, but some working in that world seem reluctant to do their part, even if that could help stem the financial system's meltdown.

Superintendent Lloyd P. LaFountain, III announced on Monday that recently completed analysis of 2008 second quarter data by the Bureau of Financial Institutions shows a continuing slow increase in home ...

Little was accomplished at the much-hyped summit of world leaders last week besides passing the buck to incoming president Barack Obama.

Washington - In his first interview as president-elect, Barack Obama called for help for the ailing US auto industry and for homeowners facing foreclosure amid the ongoing financial crisis.

Seven New Hampshire housing agencies will share a $300,000 federal grant for counseling programs aimed at keeping people in their homes.

Lawmakers complained Friday that the Bush administration is ignoring the will of Congress and slighting homeowners on the verge of foreclosure in its latest approach to spending $700 billion in economic rescue ...

Money used to be like religion or sex: It wasn't talked about in polite company.

Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford wants to drop a lawsuit the city filed this week against mortgage lenders, because he didn't authorize it.

Asian stock markets sank Tuesday after Wall Street retreated and global financial firms announced another round of massive layoffs, adding to gloom about the world economy. European markets traded lower.

Tokyo's Nikkei 225 stock average fell 194.17 points, or 2.3 percent to 8,328.41, a day after confirmation Japan, the world's second large......

Better to be a broker than a baron on Wall Street if you're expecting a big bonus this year.

The decision by top Goldman Sachs executives to forgo bonuses in 2008 is forcing other investment bank bosses to consider following suit. But thousands of lower-tier brokers will still collect hefty bonuses as firms try to keep their top talent fro......

Citigroup, widely seen as the sickest Wall Street bank, will make some of the most severe cuts in the history of U.S. business _ 53,000 jobs _ as it tries to slash costs and get back to basics before it's too late.

The cuts, which will leave Citi about 20 percent smaller, are the latest step in a stunning remaking of the American banking l......

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Citigroup Inc said on Monday it plans to cut about 50,000 jobs as souring economies and global credit conditions cause the U.S. bank with the farthest reach worldwide to retrench.

Citigroup's chairman is hinting the banking giant will announce more job cuts Monday, and isn't ruling out the possibility executives will follow peers at Goldman Sachs and forgo bonuses.

Various reports have suggested Citi may be looking to shed thousands of jobs through layoffs and attrition.

Speaking briefly to the AP after a spee......

Switzerland's largest bank plans to delay the bonuses it pays to senior managers to discourage the kind of risky short-term behavior that has cost it more than 45 billion francs ($40 billion) over the past year, according to a newspaper report Sunday.

Swiss weekly Sonntag reported that UBS AG will freeze the bonus payments for three years,......

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein and six other top executives at the bank will not be receiving cash or stock bonuses for 2008, a spokesman said Sunday.

The decision was made by the seven executives themselves, said spokesman Lucas Van Praag, and approved Sunday by the Wall Street firm's compensation committee. The executives m......

The Teacher Retirement System of Texas has seen about a $25 billion market value drop since Sept.

Federal auditors have concluded the Rev. Al Sharpton's 2004 campaign owes the government nearly $500,000 for illegal donations and other financial improprieties.

Latin American stocks slipped slightly Monday on continued signs of a global recession.

Brazil's benchmark Bovespa index closed down 0.2 percent at 35,717, Mexico's IPC was off 0.8 percent at 19,562, the Argentine Merval slid 3.3 percent and Chile's IPC fell 0.8 percent to 2,432.

Losses for big Brazilian companies Monday followed con......

Oil prices rose above $58 Monday as cold weather heading into the East drove up heating oil and natural gas futures and a government report showed a surprise jump in U.S. industrial output.

The economy fell into a recession last spring and will contract sharply this quarter as more than 200,000 workers per month are added to the rolls of the unemployed, a survey said on Monday.

The selling on Wall Street continued Monday as investors digested more signs of economic weakness, including a huge round of layoffs in the financial sector.

After a turbulent week that sent the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 340 points, investors found little solace in the latest news.

In a sign that banks are still struggling in......

Investec's Papasavvas says weak Pound is buying oppurtunty; Euro falls on speculation ECB will signal rate cuts; Investec's Papasavvas sees Euro at 1.20 to 1.35 by year-end; Analysis by Thanos Papasavvas of ...

Asian stock markets were narrowly mixed Monday as confirmation Japan had slipped into recession emphasized the gloomy outlook for the world economy.

A weekend meeting of world leaders in Washington to discuss reform of the stricken global financial system provided a symbolic show of unity between rich and emerging nations but produced few ......

SHANGHAI, China Chinese shares rose Monday for a fourth day in active trading on confidence in the government's economic stimulus package.

Plenty of beaten-down stocks appear to be attractively priced nowadays relative to their earnings.

By Jeremy Gaunt, European Investment Correspondent LONDON, Nov 16 - Investors enter the week surrounded by unrelentingly poor global economic news, fading hopes of a significant end-of-year stock market ...

Jack Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group, reminded me recently that one of his "prime rules of investing" can be summed up in two words: Don't peek.