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The great mortgage dilemma
REAL ESTATEYou've got some extra cash each month that you can't decide how to invest. Should you put it in the stock market, or use it to pay down your mortgage? The folks at Consumer Reports decided to put that question under the microscope. They found that, in most cases,...
Tags: Benefits, Consumer Reports, FINANCE, Investment, microscope, Mortgages, payoff
Research articles 2008-03-21
Ring-card girl: De La Hoya or Leonard
A fan-friendly wager between two of boxing's most magnetic figures is attracting interest in the undercard of the WBC super featherweight bout Sept.15 between Juan Manuel Marquez (47-3, 35 KOs) and challenger Rocky Juarez (27-3, 19 KOs). Oscar De La Hoya, head of Golden Boy Promotions,...
Tags: ESPN, Forbes, payoff, superstar, TVs
Research articles 2007-09-07
Executive payoff causes French election storm
PARIS AFP — An 8.5 million euro severance payment given to a French aerospace executive caught widespread flak Wednesday with presidential election candidates calling it a scandal. Socialist contender Segolene Royal called on Airbus to withdraw its proposed 10,000 job cuts across Europe following revelations of the money paid...
Tags: aerospace, Airbus S.A.S., FINANCE, Manufacturing, payment, payoff
Research articles 2007-04-11
Dream opportunity; Woodward businesses use cruise to show off.(Woodward Dream Cruise)
Byline: Sherri Begin Businesses are capitalizing on the Woodward Dream Cruise by hosting customer and employee parties or ticketed events for the public rather than renting out their cruise route property. For some, the events will bring in immediate revenue, but most...
Tags: Audi AG, car, dealership, Manufacturing, payoff
Research articles 2006-08-14
Air Force: how much fuel can it save?(Washington PULSE)(Brief article)
As the largest consumer of petroleum products in the U.S. military, the Air Force has been contemplating whether replacing the engines of hundreds of aging airplanes could help curtail fuel costs. A study currently under way at the Air Force Materiel Command is probing the potential...
Tags: Air Force, payoff
Research articles 2006-08-01
European dominant position and American monopolization: a unifying approach from basic game theory*
Aggressive behaviours against competitors of major companies in situations in which they control a large share of the market have been alternatively characterized, on both sides of the Atlantic, as anticompetitive actions or manifestations of healthy competition. Symmetrically, antitrust authority interventions to contrast such behaviours has been praised as brave...
Tags: antitrust, European Court, Games, payoff, SECURITY, Strategy
Research articles 2006-06-01
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THE SCANDAL THAT STRUCK the New York Post--in which a gossip columnist allegedly offered to refrain from writing about a particular billionaire in exchange for a $220,000 payoff--reminded us of an e-mail we received recently from a correspondent we won't identify: "I'm an extremely private individual and although I...
Tags: billionaire, columnist, E-mail, New York Post, payoff
Research articles 2006-04-17
Payoffs of E-Development projects are huge when risks are well managed; The World Bank urges both developed and developing countries to learn from past lessons to increase the impact and sustainability of e-development projects.
M2 PRESSWIRE-10 November 2005-WORLD BANK: Payoffs of E-Development projects are huge when risks are well managed; The World Bank urges both developed and developing countries to learn from past lessons to increase the impact and sustainability of e-development projectsC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10112005...
Tags: E-government, FINANCE, Government, payoff, Strategy, sustainability, World Bank
Research articles 2005-11-10
Jury weighs whether photographer guilty of Cameron Diaz topless snaps
LOS ANGELES AFP — A photographer who tried to sell Hollywood star Cameron Diaz topless pictures taken of her when she was an unknown model is a "con artist" who had hoped for a "quick payoff," prosecutors said. A jury in Los Angeles began weighing photographer John Rutter's guilt...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, payoff, prosecutor
Research articles 2005-07-22
Italian stallion's payoff to mystery punter is 864,000 dollars
PHILADELPHIA, United States AFP — Cinematic boxer Rocky Balboa might be the most famous "Italian stallion" from Philadelphia, but a longshot horse named Giacomo has been the most profitable for an unknown bettor. Someone making a one-dollar wager here at the Turf Club on 50-1 Giacomo in last Saturday's...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, payoff, Philadelphia, PRODUCTIVITY, U.S.
Research articles 2005-05-10
A pricing model for quantity contracts
ABSTRACT An economic model is proposed for a combined price futures and yield futures market. The innovation of the article is a technique of transforming from quantity and price to a model of two genuine pricing processes. This is required in order to apply modern financial theory. It is...
Tags: ASCII, asset, Chicago Board of Trade, expiration, financial, insurance, Iowa, leasing, MARKETING, payoff, Pricing, revenue, strategy, U.S. Department of Agriculture, volatility
Research articles 2004-12-01
New York attorney general sues another insurance broker in payoff probe.
By Pradnya Joshi, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 13--New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued a second insurance broker Friday as part of his investigation into the insurance industry, saying Universal Life Resources Inc. received much of its ...
Tags: FINANCE, Insurance, Newsday, payoff, Spitzer, Viacom Inc.
Research articles 2004-11-13
Curran reaches settlement with Ford Motor Credit Company and Ford and Lincoln-Mercury dealers.
M2 PRESSWIRE-10 June 2004-MARYLAND ATTORNEY GENERAL: Curran reaches settlement with Ford Motor Credit Company and Ford and Lincoln-Mercury dealersC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06082004 Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr. today announced that he and 37 other State Attorneys General have reached...
Tags: Ford Motor Co., Litigation, payoff, settlement
Research articles 2004-06-10
Senior will continue passion for hard work, payoffs of journalism
Editor's note: This is one in a series of profiles concluding May 20. If Jessica Sidman wrote her own beginning for this story, it would start with a scene of her at school after the bell has rung and the sun has set, studying final layouts to...
Tags: biology, journalism, payoff, University of Pennsylvania
Research articles 2004-05-04
U.K. Telecommunications Firm Colt Stumbles.
Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 23--Colt Telecom shares slipped (down 3 1/4 pence at 82 3/4 pence) as Fidelity said it was installing Belgian Jean-Yves Charlier from BT to replace chief executive Steve Akin, who is returning to Boston...
Tags: autumn, British Telecommunications, Fidelity Investments, FINANCE, payoff
Research articles 2004-04-23
The Costs and Benefits of Precommitment: An Appraisal of Omnicare v. NCS Healthcare
I. INTRODUCTIONFor almost two decades, the law of mergers and acquisitions has operated according to a set of dichotomies. Two fiduciary duties, the duty of loyalty and the duty of care, guide director conduct.1 Two standards of review-business judgment deference and enhanced scrutiny-are applied by courts.2 The applicable standard is...
Tags: agreement, Alien, appraisal, benefit, board, director, fiduciary, game, Genesis, merger, payoff, Revlon Inc., shareholder, Time Warner Inc., Unocal Corp., Williams
Research articles 2004-04-01
Arbitrage: The Key to Pricing Options
Arbitrage is the act of simultaneously buying and selling assets or commodities in an attempt to exploit a profitable opportunity. Although the idea behind arbitrage is fairly simple, it is quite powerful because the ability to exploit such opportunities is needed for markets to operate efficiently. Arbitrage ensures, for example,...
Tags: ABC Inc., apple, arbitrage, asset, FINANCE, Investment, payoff, stock
Research articles 2004-01-01
FPIC Insurance Group, Inc. Completes Payoff and Early Retirement of Commercial Bank Credit Facility
Business Editors JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 12, 2003 FPIC Insurance Group, Inc. (the "Company" or "FPIC") (Nasdaq: FPIC) reported today the full repayment and early retirement of its commercial bank credit facility. The Company funded the payoff and early retirement with proceeds from three private placements of trust preferred...
Tags: FINANCE, FPIC Insurance Group Inc., Insurance, payoff, SEC
Research articles 2003-11-12
Smart Firms Bank on Customer Intelligence
With the drop in mortgage interest rates, I jumped on the refinancing bandwagon using my current bank. The following impersonal form letter was sent to me as a follow-up to my refi. I changed the bank's name, supervisor name, and phone number: "Dear Mortgage Customer: ABC Bank has...
Tags: ABC Inc., bank, payoff
Research articles 2003-11-03
Storm Brews over Big Payoff for British Fund Manager.
By Brian O'Connor, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 2--Chris Fishwick - the "Mr Splits" fund manager blamed for hefty losses in split capital investment trusts - is likely to receive a payoff of up to UKpound 1.9 million that...
Tags: Aberdeen Group Inc., Benefits, payoff
Research articles 2003-01-02
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