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- Home prices projected to increase 3.9 percent annually over next five years, following a 7.3 percent rise in 2012 IRVINE, Calif., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CoreLogic(®) (NYSE: CLGX), a leading residential property information, analytics and services provider, today released an analysis of home price trends in more than 380 U.S. markets based on the CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indexes(®). The indexes are owned and generated by CoreLogic, supplemented with data from the Federal...
First National Innovation Brokers Providing Unprecedented Swap and Liquidity Solutions for the Argentina retail market. The collapsing peso has savers scrambling for solutions offered only by FNIB. Wilmington, DE (PRWEB) May 03, 2013 The hedge fund prime broker and forex retailer First National Innovation Brokers (FNIB) is financing real estate acquisitions in Argentina. The firm offers innovative solutions to the liquidity needs of buyers in opaque markets that lack traditional...
PARIS, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- - Sales prices prove resilient: up 0.9%. - Significant impact of harsh winter weather and fewer working days (-3.7%) on sales volumes: down 6.3%. - Robust organic growth in the US, driven by businesses related to residential construction (CP Sector). - Return to growth in Asia and emerging countries: up 1.5% like-for-like. Continued slowdown in Western Europe, exacerbated...
Watch the video "Bitcoin Risk: An Empirical Study" Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The bank failures that resulted from the 1929 stock market crash took many people’s life savings with it, and some say the same thing could happen – a albeit on a much smaller scale at least – to those who invest heavily in Bitcoins. According to a new study from Southern Methodist University in Dallas and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, the virtual cyber currency...
TORONTO, April 11, 2013 /CNW/ - The C.D. Howe Institute's Monetary Policy Council (MPC) today recommended that the Bank of Canada maintain its target for the overnight rate, the very short-term interest rate the Bank targets for monetary policy purposes, at 1.00 percent at its next announcement on April 17, 2013. The Council further called for the Bank to hold the target at 1.00 through to April of 2014. The MPC is a panel sponsored by the C.D. Howe Institute to provide an...
Hyperinflation in the U.S.? Future Money Trends Newsletter Makes the Case in New Documentary LOS ANGELES, March 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- FutureMoneyTrends.com is pleased to release our new documentary that compares the United States to previous empires, specifically the Weimar Republic. Use this link to watch the micro-documentary today. http://www.futuremoneytrends.com/index.php/videos/documentaries/426-fall-of-the-fourth-reich-empire-of-debt-micro-doc The number of...
Slight Increases in Labor Rates Contribute to Overall Lift in Construction Costs NEW YORK, March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Turner Construction Company announced that the First Quarter 2013 Turner Building Cost Index - which measures costs in the non-residential building construction market in the United States - has increased to a value of 849. This reflects a 1.19% increase from the Fourth Quarter 2012 and a 3.41% increase from the First Quarter 2012. "The increase in private...
WASHINGTON, March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Planck space mission has released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe, revealing new information about its age, contents and origins. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO ) Planck is a European Space Agency mission. NASA contributed mission-enabling technology for both of Planck's science instruments, and U.S., European and Canadian scientists work...
Reece Freeman, of ChooseWhat.com, introduces why a "Living Wage" makes more sense than "Minimum Wage" for small businesses after President Obama's call to raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour. Austin, TX (PRWEB) March 19, 2013 At this year’s State of the Union address, President Obama laid out a series of plans for the first year of his second term. One of the most controversial ideas introduced was the plan to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9.00 per hour...
BEIJING, March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Conference Board Leading Economic Index(® )(LEI) for China increased 1.3 percent in February to 257.5 (2004 = 100), following a 1.3 percent increase in January and a 0.4 percent increase in December. Five of the six components contributed positively to the index in February. Says Andrew Polk, resident economist at The Conference Board China Center in Beijing: "The Leading Economic Index for China maintained its pace in February, a sign...
Latest Inflation Reference Libraries
Quintessence (Dark Energy) -- Quintessence or dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy postulated to exist in order to explain observations of an accelerating universe. This energy would act like a vacuum pressure, pushing things apart. Other attempts to explain these recent observations involve a non-zero cosmological constant, which has the same effect. Indeed, sometimes quintessence is said to result in a non-zero cosmological constant, and conversely a non-zero cosmological...
Cosmological Constant -- The cosmological constant (usually denoted by the Greek capital letter lambda: Λ) is a value occurring in Einstein's theory of general relativity. The units of Λ are 1/second2; its value is unknown but believed to be positive based on recent observations. The constant is proportional to the energy density of the vacuum Ï, where Ï€ is Pi, G is the gravitational constant and c is the speed of light in vacuum. The term can be postive, negative, or...
Inflation -- Inflation is the idea - first proposed by Alan Guth (1981) - that the nascent universe passed through a phase of exponential expansion that was driven by a negative vacuum energy density (positive vacuum pressure). This expansion can be modelled by a non-zero cosmological constant. As a direct consequence of this expansion, all of the observable universe is posited to have originated in a small, initially causally-connected region. Quantum fluctuations in this microscopic...
Accelerating universe -- In the late 1990s, observations of type I supernova produced the unexpected result that the expansion of the universe appears to be accelerating. These observations appear more firm as new data has appeared. This means that the speed with which a distant galaxy recedes from us increases over time. If this trend continues, eventually we won't be able to see any other galaxies any more. This new theory of the end of the Universe has been called the Big Rip....
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) -- The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) was launched on June 30, 2001 at 3:46 p.m. EDT at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA. The goal of WMAP was to map out minute differences in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation which would help test theories of the nature of the universe. On February 11, 2003, the public relations group from NASA made a press release regarding the age and composition of the universe....
