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  • The women who spent £300,000 on diets..but who can't keep slim (Daily Mail)

    Victoria Wills is horrified when she adds up how much she's spent on slimming over the years. The 31-year-old former management consultant estimates she has wasted an astonishing £200,000 since going on her first diet at the age of 11
    2008-01-01 04:32:17
  • 5-K Run Helps Cerebral Palsy Patients (WSMV Nashville)

    Nearly a thousand people shrugged off the cold weather for a 5-K race downtown as a way to help people with disabilities.
    2008-01-01 04:32:22
  • Deal to Buy Mortgage Company Collapses (New York Times)

    In a sign of continuing mortgage industry woes, PHH, one of the largest originators of residential home loans, said it is scrapping a planned $1.8 billion sale.
    2008-01-01 04:33:28
  • Sales of Existing Homes Rise, but Prices Keep Falling (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)

    Sales of previously owned homes nudged up in November, but that was not enough to improve the broader picture of a market racked by record-high foreclosures.
    2008-01-01 04:37:48
  • Edward Brennan, Who Led Sears at Its Peak, Dies at 73 (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)

    Mr. Brennan became chief executive at Sears in 1986, when the company was the nation’s largest retailer.
    2008-01-01 04:37:48
  • Customers, Not Brokers, Profited in an Odd 2007 (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)

    The brokers’ customers did reasonably well. The brokers did not. How could that happen?.
    2008-01-01 04:38:35
  • House price tide turns for new year (Daily Telegraph)

    Though some analysts say property prices will plunge 10pc, there are still not enough houses, reports Sophie Brodie
    2008-01-01 04:45:19
  • Giving credit card debt the heave-ho (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

    Relief from a self-imposed financial burden helps lift a couple's holiday spirits.
    2008-01-01 04:46:19
  • Experts: Factors such as job growth affect housing doldrums (Siskiyou Daily News)

    AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES - Would-be buyers and frustrated home sellers across the nation have one thing in common: They want to know when the downtrodden housing market will finally hit bottom.
    2008-01-01 04:55:14
  • Canadian stocks outlook

    Globe and Mail - Vasic believes that commodity prices will ease from current levels but remain relatively high as global growth ... But those negative influences on valuations will be offset, he expects, by gradually declining interest rates and the inflow of ...
    2008-01-01 09:23:00
  • Hope Dim For Nuclear Power In State

    Hartford Courant - ... faces when it comes to electricity, from some of the country's highest rates to a ... It would certainly be in Connecticut's best interest to get in line," said Steward ... and whether consumers would see benefits on their bills under the current market ...
    2008-01-01 01:33:00
  • S&P's 2008 Election Outlook

    MSN MoneyCentral - ... victory, we would likely become neutral on the defense sector vs. our current ... and, 2] at the state level, general increases in sales and corporate tax rates ... Ironically, we may see renewed interest in opening up areas for domestic drilling ...
    2008-01-01 11:53:00
  • House price tide turns for new year

    Daily Telegraph - Much depends on how quickly the Bank of England cuts interest rates and whether banks, bloodied from the credit crisis, follow ... Ongoing supply shortages will underpin current valuations. The Government's target of building 3m new homes by 2020 is ...
    2008-01-01 03:57:00
  • After 11 percent loss in 2007, Tokyo shares to remain under pressure ...

    Forbes - They are more wary of the pressure a prolonged period of low interest rates will put on the earnings of Japanese banks. Analysts ... to enter into a recovery phase in the fiscal year to March 2009, although their share prices may rebound from current ...
    2008-01-01 03:42:00
  • StanChart wants the wealthy

    Hong Kong Standard - ... five to 10 new branches in 2008, raising the total number of Hong Kong outlets to about 80 from the current 72. "With sufficient capital, local investors would like to make more sound investments, especially facing negative real interest rates," said ...
    2008-01-01 11:32:00