Sulzer CEO says has means for acquisitions-paper

ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss engineering group Sulzer is looking for acquisitions and has the financial firepower to spend in the range of 1 billion Swiss francs ($ 1.06 billion), the company's chief executive was quoted as saying on Sunday. "We have sufficient means to ca
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Malls Compete Harder as Economy Recovers, Says Moody’s

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European Debt Crisis Impacting Global Home Price Index, Weakest Performance Since 2009 Says Knight Frank

According to Knight Frank’s latest Global House Price Index, worldwide home prices recorded their weakest annual performance since the depths of the recession in 2009, recording only 0.9% growth in the year to March 2012. Doubts over the Eurozone’s future, coupled with the
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Fed stands pat but says will act if needed

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday said U.S. monetary policy was “more or less in the right place” even though the central bank would not hesitate to launch another round of bond purchases if the economy were to weaken. In a sta
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U.S. Housing Market Has Begun Nascent Recovery, Says Freddie Mac Report

Frank Nothaft According to Freddie Mac’s U.S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook for March, there are signs the U.S. housing market is awakening from its depression-like condition of the past few years and beginning, though slowly, to make a nascent recovery. Frank Nothaft, Fre
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Fractional Ownership to Go Mainstream within Two Years, Says AIPP CEO

Mark Sharp Mark Sharp, the chief executive of the Association of International Property Professionals (AIPP) claims that fractional ownership will take its place in the real estate mainstream as whole ownership vacation homes become less accessible due to the ongoing global economic c
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