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200,000 Residential Properties Return To Positive Equity In 4Q 2012: CoreLogic
Roughly 200,000 residential properties returned to a state of positive equity during fourth-quarter of 2012, according to CoreLogic, a provider of information, analytics and business services. In an ...Fed Holds Firm To Stimulus Plan
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday pressed forward with its aggressive efforts to stimulate the U.S. economy, saying it would take into account risks posed by its policies but also how much work still ...U.S. Senate Approves Funding Bill To Avert Government Shutdown
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved legislation to avert a government shutdown next week, freeing Democrats and Republicans to spend the next few months arguing over deeply divided strategies to ...Impact Of ‘Sequester’ Budget Cuts On U.S. Jobs May Be Exaggerated
Deep government spending cuts are unlikely to weigh on U.S. employment as heavily as initially feared, with most of the impact reducing hours worked rather than payrolls, according to economists. The ...
One-Click Vote Button Vanishing From Proxy Sites; Reaction To SEC Concerns
Pressured by regulators, websites that help collect shareholders' votes have removed a button that set all votes as recommended by boards of directors—a controversial design that seemed to give an ...
High Court Hears Arguments In Generic Drug Maker Case
The Supreme Court seemed skeptical Tuesday of allowing generic drug manufacturers to be sued in state court for a drug's design defects if federal officials approved the brand-name version the ...
Louisiana’s Assumption Parish Sinkhole Growing
A sinkhole in swampy Assumption Parish grew to 12 acres over the weekend, and officials said Monday they are monitoring the threat that another area nearby could liquefy into muck. Lawmakers on the ...
Supreme Court Blocks Bid to Bypass Federal Court on Class Actions
A plaintiff seeking class action status for a claim may not bypass federal court for a friendlier state court by agreeing to cap damages below the $5 million threshold for cases federal law says ...