| Should You Consolidate Your Loans?
CREDIT CARDS, student loans, car payments, mortgages. If you go through a box of checks like a flu victim goes through Kleenex, you may be a candidate for loan consolidation. You've got lots of options to choose from, whether it's taking a personal loan from your bank or credit union or rolling your credit-card balances to a low-rate card. The key is to reduce your interest rates � not just your monthly out-of-pocket costs. .
The Other Women to Watch
After radically paring back Xerox's debt, she has leveraged the company's financial strength in the past 18 months to buy three smaller companies that make software for managing legal evidence, mortgage originations and personalized mailings. Ms. Mulcahy, 54 years old, has said she doesn't have any plans for retirement. But this year, the Xerox board named an heir apparent, long-time lieutenant Ursula Burns, to replace Ms. Mulcahy as president. --William M. Bulkeley * * * .
Penthouse buys AdultFriendFinder.com owner
Penthouse Media Group said it has bought social networking company Various and its subsidiaries for $500 million in cash and securities as part of an expansion plan. Boca Raton-based Penthouse Media Group is the parent of adult entertainment publication Penthouse Magazine. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Various operates more than 25 networking sites and lists a member base of more than 260 million consumers, including 1.2 million paying subscribers. Penthouse expects the combined revenue of both companies to be $340 million in 2007. Various' largest Web site is AdultFriendFinder.com, which it says has more than 18 million members and describes itself as a personals site for swingers and sex. However, Various also owns several multicultural personals sites -- such as IndianFriendFinder.com and Amigos.com -- and GuanXi.com, a business networking site for people who want to network to and from Asia; restaurant review site Dine.com; and BigChurch.com, a Christian-focused networking site.
November 2007
The Republican presidential candidate is hoping to celebrate more than Christmas in the Hawkeye State. Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, has surprised many people by pulling into a statistical dead heat with Mitt Romney in polling ahead of the Republican caucuses in Iowa on January 3. But did Huckabee's surge surprise even his own Iowa campaign manager? Eric Woolson took precious days off last week to go snake hunting with his son in Costa Rica. The Washington Post saw this as evidence Woolson never anticipated Huckabee's success — or else he would have stayed put at the office. When an NPR reporter visited Tuesday, Woolson was back at work showing off photos of his snake expedition. He explained that he planned the vacation with his son long before the Iowa caucuses were moved up to January 3.
No hard feelings says Steve Weaver
I have no regrets and I really enjoyed working with Brian Carey for a year. I learnt so much in that time and I owe him a lot," said Weaver."Leaving might be a good thing and I am really looking forward to something new. It might be good for me because you can be at th .
Iverson Drops 38 on His Former Team
Early in the game I started getting a lot of easy lay-ups and then that just started making my jumper feel that much better. I'm in a good rhythm right now, and hopefully that will just continue." The surging Nuggets travel to Phoenix to battle the Suns Monday night in a game that will mark Denver's fourth in five nights. This will no doubt be a tough challenge for Iverson and the Nuggets coming off an emotional win on Sunday. "We know what type of team they are," Iverson said. "It's kind of a measuring stick to see how good we are." Iverson will travel back to Philadelphia for the first time since being traded to Denver on Wednesday March 19th for a game that is sure to be even more emotional than Sunday's contest. .
Carney credits Sydney for career boost
He said after unsuccessful spells in Britain at Everton, Oldham, Halifax and Hamilton he had no regrets about joining Sydney FC before getting that chance to return to England and play for Sheffield United. "I never gave up on myself," he told The Sun. "I knew I had the potential I just wanted someone to put their faith in me. "I was at Everton for three years from the age of 16 but never got a first-team chance. "David Moyes released me but I still remember what he told me as I left. He said sometimes you need to take one step back to take another one forward." After joining Oldham, the club went into administration and Carney did not enjoy his subsequent spells at Halifax or Hamilton. "But back at Sydney, I was alongside better players like Dwight Yorke," he said.
See-through condos
Sales contracts fell through when buyers couldn't get affordable loans. Investors who had hoped to buy in and then resell at a profit pulled out of the market. Buyers who had to sell their current homes first were stuck when they couldn't sell. Others balked at paying prices that had seemed more reasonable during the run-up in home prices.
New condo sales in metropolitan Baltimore fell 37 percent in the first half of this year - the latest statistics available - while new townhouse sales fell 15 percent, according to Hanley Wood Market Intelligence. And in the third quarter, as the credit crunch hit the market, there were more contract cancellations than sales in the Baltimore metro market, according to an analysis by Delta Associates, which includes projects that are selling or under construction.
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