Archive for November, 2008

Walmart Stores to Provide 70 Million Meals per Year to Families in Need

Wal-Mart Foundation Also Donates $2.5 Million to Purchase New Trucks and Help Feeding America Food Banks Improve Warehouse Capacity With the Thanksgiving season upon us, Walmart today announced that its Supercenters and Neighborhood Markets will partner with Feeding America, the nation’s largest charitable hunger-relief organization, to provide an estimated 90 million pounds of food annually [...]

Optimism in U.S. and World Economies Fall to New 16-Year Low Among CEOs of Fastest-Growing Private Companies

International Marketers Outpace Domestic Counterparts, Yet Concerns over Profitability, Cash Flow Rise for Domestic and International Companies PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Trendsetter Barometer tracks the business issues and standard industry practices of privately-held U.S. growth businesses. It incorporates the views of 245 CEOs: 113 from companies in the product sector and 132 in the service sector, averaging $72.2 [...]

Generation Mortgage Offers Additional Peace of Mind to Senior Home Owners

New Government Regulations Increase Lending Limits Nationwide The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD recently implemented new regulations for the HECM (Home Equity Conversion Mortgage) loan, increasing the federal insurance of that product. As a result, the FHA now will be insuring their reverse mortgage loans at a higher loan limit than before. [...]

Home Prices Rise in Some Metros, Buyers More Active in Other Areas

Four out of five metropolitan areas recorded lower home prices in the third quarter from a year earlier, while existing-home sales fell in 32 states from the second quarter, according to the latest quarterly survey by the National Association of Realtors(R). In the third quarter, 28 out of 152 metropolitan statistical areas(1) showed increases in [...]