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...Gawthorn won’t reveal how many of the 644 new homes at Camden Goods Yard have sold (203 of which are classed as affordable housing)....
...Home Depot agreed to pay $9.1bn for its former subsidiary HD Supply 13 years after it disposed of the business....
...Among the New York properties that Fannie Mae has helped finance is 456 Washington Street, which overlooks the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan....
...More than half of the 41 US companies that are that large, including JPMorgan, General Electric and Home Depot, saw their shares decline by 10 per cent or more on August 24....
...Staples fell nearly 14 per cent after the US antitrust regulator said it would challenge a proposed $6.3bn acquisition of rival office supplies retail Office Depot....
...Adobe’s fourth-quarter profits, adjusted for certain items, rose to 34 cents a share, topping Wall Street forecasts of 30 cents, thanks to a 28 per cent climb in Creative Cloud subscriptions....
...The regulation, known as Regulation SCI, came a day after Home Depot became the latest flash crash victim in the US equity market....
...(Financial Times) Home Depot, the largest DIY chain in the US, is looking into a possible theft of customer data, the latest in a growing chain of data breaches by hackers to hit US retailers and banks....
...US: Dell, Home Depot, JC Penney. “The Justice Department is investigating whether J.P....
...Among retailers, Office Depot rose 5.5 per cent to $12.53, Limited Brands added 3.3 per cent to $17.72 and Kohl’s gained 3 per cent to $43.88. The consumer discretionary sector advanced0.7 per cent....
...The private equity firms buying Home Depot Supply from its parent in August were also able to extract guarantees on $1bn of debt from Home Depot itself as part of a renegotiation of that deal....
...“He has manipulated the press and the law to disparage many other decent people for years,” said Ken Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot who came under fire from Mr Spitzer while he was a director of the...
...The Nasdaq Composite fell 1.1 per cent at 2,644.32....
...Ongoing unease over credit also hit Wall Street investment banks....
...Home Depot reported an expected 14.8 per cent decline in its quarterly earnings as sales declined and warned that the home improvement market would remain tough into 2008....
...Wall Street stocks closed lower on Thursday, with markets giving up their early gains as uncertainty over the extent of losses from the subprime mortgage crisis continued to dominate sentiment....
...Home Depot has named activist investor David H. Batchelder to its board, reports the Wall Street Journal. Mr....
...Robert Schiller, MacroMarkets LLC chief economist, said the decline in the residential property market “shows no signs of slowing down”....
...Following lower-than-expected results from Wal-Mart and Home Depot on Tuesday, Macy ’s results cast a shadow over retailers....
...Shares in Wall Street were mixed on Tuesday, as blue-chips vaulted further into record territory, while losses in technology weighed upon broader benchmarks....
...Wall Street rebounded from an interest rate pothole this week and a strong weekly performance left the S&P 500 and blue chips testing record territory once more....
...Wall Street posted sharp losses this week as investors worried aboutelevated long-term bond yields, higher oil prices and the exposure of financial stocks to hedge funds....
...Trading on Wall Street was languid on Monday as stocks were dragged down by weaker oil prices and lingering worries over the US housing market....
...By early 2000, companies such as Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Dell and Microsoft were trading at absurd multiples, with price/earnings ratios well above 50....
...Wall Street finished the week lower on Friday, as investor relief over the Federal Reserve’s decision to leave interest rates unchanged was countered by fresh evidence of slowing economic growth....
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