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    Drilling Rigs
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    Premium Financing
  • Investing Guide  Premium financing provides life insurance for high net worth seniors with no out-of-pocket costs. Also known as "free insurance".
    Life Settlement
  • Investing Guide  Sell your unwanted life insurance policy to pay bills today, also known as a "viatical". Learn how life settlements can put cash into your pocket.
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    Tax Lien Certificates
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    Commercial Property
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    Art Investing
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    Oil & Gas Exploration:
    U.S.gas prices rise, buoyed by higher oil (Idaho State Journal)
    BOISE - Weak demand and abundant oil supplies notwithstanding, motorists have seen a steady climb in retail gas prices in the U.S. in the past two weeks, according to AAA Idaho.
    Government blames high gas prices on increasing unemployment; Fort Myers oil company blames government (WINK TV Southwest Florida)
    It`s your money and gas prices are slowly inching toward three dollars a gallon.
    Wednesday`s oil, gas, gold, zinc prices (Anchorage Daily News)
    North Slope oil: $80.34, up $0.60 U.S. natural gas (Henry Hub): $4.44 per million BTU, down
    Oil Prices Rise to Settle Above $82 (ABC News)
    Oil prices head higher again on inventories report and stronger OPEC demand outlook Business - Inventory - Asia - Oil and Gas - Energy
    Oil prices settle above $82 (AP via Yahoo! News)
    Oil settled above $82 on Wednesday after rising as high as $83. Prices got a bump in morning trading following the government`s weekly crude inventory report, which showed a smaller increase in supplies than expected. Prices also got some support from OPEC raising its outlook for world oil demand.
    Drilling Rigs:
    Number of rigs drilling in N.D. oil fields jumps to 100 (Minot Daily News)
    The number of rigs actively drilling in the North Dakota oil fields reached 100 as of Monday. That information is according to the North Dakota Oil and Gas Division Web site, which regularly updates the number of rigs drilling in the state.
    Oil Rigs Top 100 in North Dakota (KQCD-TV Dickinson)
    The number of rigs piercing North Dakota`s oil patch has topped 100 for the first time in two decades. North Dakota Petroleum Council President Ron Ness said 101 rigs are drilling in western North Dakota.
    ND oil rig count tops 100 (San Francisco Chronicle)
    The number of rigs piercing North Dakota`s oil patch has topped 100 for the first time in nearly three decades, the state Department of Mineral Resources said Wednesday. Department director Lynn Helms said 102 rigs were drilling in western North Dakota`s oil... North Dakota - Petroleum industry - United States - Drilling rig - Oil platform
    Baker Hughes: More oil, gas rigs operated last week (American Petroleum Institute)
    The number of oil and natural gas drilling rigs rose this past week as companies ramped up activity amid stronger prices, Bak - More - 
    ND oil rig count tops 100 (AP via Yahoo! News)
    The number of rigs piercing North Dakota`s oil patch has topped 100 for the first time in nearly three decades, the state Department of Mineral Resources said Wednesday.
    Premium Financing:
    Hannover Re posts very pleasing result for the 2009 financial year (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
    HANNOVER, GERMANY--(Marketwire - 03/11/10) - Hannover RE / Hannover Re posts very pleasing result for the 2009 financial year processed and transmitted by Hugin AS. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. * Overall premium growth + 26.5% * Combined ratio in non-life reinsurance: 96.6% (95.4%) * Investment income sharply higher at EUR 1.1 billion (EUR 278.5 million ...
    HFF arranges $85 million acquisition financing for Lantana Media Campus in Santa Monica, California (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
    HOUSTON----The Houston and Los Angeles offices of HFF announced today that they have arranged $85 million financing for the Lantana Media Campus, a 462,429-square-foot Class A office campus in Santa Monica, California.
    11.03.2010 - PRESS RELEASE: Hannover Re posts very pleasing result for the 2009 financial year (4investors)
    Hannover Rück / Hannover Re posts very pleasing result for the 2009 financial year processed and transmitted by Hugin AS. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
    Hannover Re posts very pleasing result for the 2009 financial year (Marketwire)
    HANNOVER, GERMANY--(Marketwire - March 11, 2010) -
    Zargon Energy Trust Announces 2009 Fourth Quarter And Full Year Results (Marketwire)
    CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - March 10, 2010) - Zargon Energy Trust (TSX:ZAR.UN) (TSX:ZOG.B) (";Zargon"; or the ";Trust";) today announced its operating and financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2009. H
    Life Settlement:
    Life settlement funds `need risk warnings` (Investors Chronicle)
    Life settlement funds - which turn US life insurance policies into tradable assets - have been one of the more resilient asset classes through the credit crunch, and have expanded rapidly as investors seek predictable returns that are not linked to the broader market cycle.
    FSA warns over traded investments in life policies (Guardian Unlimited)
    FSA says trade in life policy settlements contains `major flaws` in its marketing and it has taken action against several firms The Financial Services Authority has warned that it has ";significant concerns"; about the way an increasingly popular type of high-yielding investment is being promoted in the UK and has told independent financial advisers that it will closely monitor sales. Traded life ...
    FSA raises concerns over traded life settlements (Money Marketing Online)
    In a speech today at the European Life Settlement Association trade mission in London, FSA head of investment policy Peter Smith said the regulator had concerns about the quality of marketing literature from providers in the traded life policy investment market and it would be monitoring this area closely.
    FSA sets out concerns about Traded Life Policy Investments (UK Financial Services Authority)
    Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for inviting me to speak today on regulatory priorities for the life settlement industry. I would like to start with some thoughts about the FSA’s general approach to regulation, in particular of the retail investment market.
    Insurance settlement options vary (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
    When a life-insurance policy turns into a death benefit, it is usually paid to the primary beneficiary in a lump sum. But not always. Insurers usually make available a number of alternative ";settlement options."; This column will discuss some of those alternatives.
    Tax Lien Certificates:
    Deadline for 2009 Property Taxes Approaches (Clearwater Gazette)
    CLEARWATER - Pinellas County Tax Collector Diane Nelson reminds residents that all 2009 tax payments for real estate and tangible personal property taxes must be received by March 31 to avoid interest charges.
    Gila County property tax lien sale is Friday (Arizona Silver Belt)
    GLOBE — Open bidding begins Friday morning for Gila County’s annual property tax lien sale. The auction, conducted by Gila County Treasurer Debra Savage, gets underway at 9 a.m. in the board of supervisors’ hearing room at the Gila County Courthouse in Globe.
    Commercial Property:
    Apollo Management Said to Buy Citi’s Property Unit (Update1) (Bloomberg)
    March 9 (Bloomberg) -- Apollo Management LP agreed to buy Citigroup Inc.’s real estate investment unit, according to a person with knowledge of the deal.
    Apollo Said to Triple Property Assets With Citi Unit Purchase (Bloomberg)
    March 10 (Bloomberg) -- Apollo Management LP agreed to buy Citigroup Inc.’s real estate investment unit in a move that will more than triple the value of the private-equity firm’s property assets, a person with knowledge of the deal said yesterday.
    Bluestone America’s CEO, Charles Nam, Announces the Opening of Bluestone Holdings as its Commercial Real Estate ... (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
    Charles Nam anounces the opening of the Bluestone Holdings New Commercial Brokerage division to be part of the Bluestone Preferred Wealth Center.
    Real estate investors sue developer for $390M (Crain`s New York Business)
    James Comtois - Real estate investors David Workman and B. Tuckey Devlin are suing developer Related Companies for $390 million.
    A plan to save commercial real estate (CNN Money)
    Economists have long been predicting commercial real estate could be the next day of reckoning for the financial markets, with a wave of defaults looming as billions of dollars in troubled loans come due in the coming months.
    Art Investing:
    Emaar Industries & Investments celebrates opening of new state-of-the-art plant by Dynergy Technologies (Zawya)
    Emaar Industries & Investments Ltd (EII), a member of Emaar Properties PJSC, celebrated the opening of a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant for low voltage and medium voltage switchboards of its subsidiary Dynergy Technologies in TechnoPark, Dubai.
    Medavia investing €10.5m on new hangar (Times of Malta)
    Aircraft maintenance company Medavia is investing €10.5 million on a new hangar and environmentally-friendly office block, the Prime Minister was told this morning during a tour of the company`s premises in Safi.
    Tire and wheel assembly company will bring jobs to Greer (The Greenville News)
    GREER — A Florida-based company that will provide tire and wheel assembly for BMW`s next generation of the X3 sports activity vehicle is investing $9 million to launch its site here and will bring about 50 contract jobs, at first, with an eye to an additional 100 in the future.
    Union Railway in UAE marks the beginning of an era of long-term investment : Al Nowais (Zawya)
    Washington DC, 11th March 2010 (WAM): The development of the 1,500-kilometer Union Railway in the UAE marks the beginning of an era of long-term investment in building state-of-the-art rail networks across the nation and the region as a whole,a senior UAE transport official has said here.
    SuccessFactors (SFSF) Viewed As Dream Stock For Investing In The Cloud Computing Space; BizX Chief Reason (Wall Street Transcript via Yahoo! Finance)
    67 WALL STREET, New York - March 9, 2010 - The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Business & Application Software Report offering a timely review of the sector to serious investors and industry executives. This 119 page feature contains expert industry commentary through in-depth interviews with public company CEOs, Equity Analysts and Money Managers. The full issue is available by ...
     
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