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COLUMN: BUSINESS BRIEFS TELEGRAM & GAZETTE Bloomberg Index Central Massachusetts +0.16 171.86 Volume: 114,370,130 Up: 12 Down: 10 Unchanged: 7 Gainer: Waters Corp. $61.05 +$1.34 (Volume of...

2 credit unions open new branches.
Byline: Joe Mosley The Register-Guard Don't tell local credit unions that the building boom has slowed - two of them have opened new offices in Eugene-Springfield in the past couple months. Eugene-based Oregon Community Credit Union opened its 14th branch - its ninth in Lane...

EXPANDING HOUSING MIX.
Byline: Andrea Damewood The Register-Guard Two new federal grants - and one more potential award - will give homeless veterans and low-income families a big lift and help St. Vincent de Paul add to its rapidly expanding affordable housing programs, officials announced Monday. The Federal...

Be a patriot, buy a home: re-imagining Home owners and Home ownership in early 20th century atlanta.
In a 1945 review of John Dean's Homeownership: Is It Sound?, real estate analyst Helen Monchow observed that Dean had set himself an unpopular task in examining "an institution so long established, so deep seated, and so widely accepted as a principle or ideal of the so-called American way...

P/$ rate closes at P48.93 to $ 1.
The peso rate closed higher at P48.93 to the US dollar yesterday at the Philippine Dealing System of the Bankers Association of the Philippines from P49.030 the previous day. The weighted average rate depreciated to P49.049 from P48.983. Total volume amounted to $ 386.1 million. FCDU deposits...

Bank lends homeless a hand.
SOUTHBRIDGE - Southbridge Savings Bank has lent its financial support to Ed's Place, a 30-acre working farm in Oakham operated by the South Middlesex Opportunity Council's People In Peril shelter in Worcester. SMOC is dedicated to the mobilization and utilization of resources, both public and private, to...

RCBC corporate loans up 42% to P45.6 B.
Byline: James A. Loyola Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation's (RCBC) Corporate Banking Group (CBG) revealed its corporate loan portfolio has grown by 42 percent to P45.6 billion in the first eight months of the year from P32.1 billion in the same period in 2006. The bank...

P/$ rate closes at R41.28/$1.
The peso exchange rate appreciated yesterday to P41.28 against the US dollar at the Philippine Dealing & Exchange Corp. (PDEx) from P41.60 the previous day. The weighted average rate depreciated slightly to P41.411 from P41.401. Total volume amounted to $ 503.700 million. FCDU loans dip 11% to...

Market efficiency and financial markets integration in India *.
Abstract The paper tries to explore the impact of economic reforms on the integration of various segments of the financial market in India through the time series tools during the period from March 1993 to March 2005. The major findings ate: (i) various segments of the financial...

ABA Financial Marketing Awards: eight-one entries honored.
Eighty-one banks and marketing agencies have been honored by the 2007 ABA Financial Marketing Awards. The awards were presented in September during the ABA Marketing Conference in Baltimore. The competition, which is sponsored by the ABA Marketing Network, recognized outstanding bank marketing creative work in 10 categories:...