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Learn about oil and gas exploration investing and the tax breaks.
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Analyze and evaluate oil & gas investment opportunities before you invest.
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Investing Guide
Profit from rising energy prices. Get your Drilling Rig Investing Guide.
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Analyze and evaluate drilling rig investment opportunities before you invest.
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Investing Guide
Premium financing provides life insurance for high net worth seniors with no out-of-pocket costs. Also known as "free insurance".
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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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Investing Guide
Return on investment up to 50%, and it`s low risk because the return is guaranteed by the government.
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See the potential return on investment before you purchase a tax lien certificate.
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Investing Guide
Get up to speed quickly with the step-by-step process and the common questions to ask before investing in Commercial Property.
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Make sure the property is profitable before you buy it.
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Investing Guide
Learn how to grow wealth with art investments. Art can appreciate quickly - a great opportunity to make a profit.
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Analyze and evaluate art investments before buying and selling at auction or galleries.
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Oil prices fluctuate; gas prices slow to follow (The Conroe Courier)
Montgomery County drivers expressed frustration last week with gas costs that didn’t seem to drop in unison with the price of a barrel of oil.
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Oil prices fall below $90 amid financial crisis worries (USA Today)
Oil prices fell to an 8-month low below $90 a barrel on speculation that the spreading financial crisis will exacerbate a global economic slowdown and cut demand for crude oil.
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Oil`s down so why not gas prices? (WPTV West Palm Beach)
Oil prices are way down, but local gas still averages $3.66 a gallon. Why?
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Gas Prices Down (WHSV Harrisonburg)
Most Valley residents are seeing dropping gas prices at the pumps. The price of crude oil is down to $93 per barrel, which is more than a $10 drop from last week.
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Congress` boost to Amtrak fueled by high gas prices, too much traffic (Chicago Tribune)
Chicago would be hub of nine-state, high-speed network Highway congestion, high fuel prices, dependence on foreign oil, pollution and global warming are creating perfect conditions for reforming stagnant transportation policies.
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Will oil companies invest in N.C. coast drilling? (The Charlotte Observer)
Forty-five miles off Cape Hatteras, Chevron USA said a decade ago, lay a colossal gamble that sounds sweet today. The oil company reckoned only a 7 percent chance of striking oil or gas more than 11,000 feet under the sea floor. The potential reserves, however, could become the largest found since Alaska`s Prudhoe Bay, the biggest oilfield in North America. A federal official called the Manteo ...
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PdVSA Services Unit Says It Now Runs 172 Oil Rigs, Seeks More (Nasdaq)
PUERTO LA CRUZ, Venezuela -(Dow Jones)- Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PdVSA, now runs a total of 172 oil rigs, all on-shore, through a new oil services unit, a company official said Friday.
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Pioneer Drilling Appoints Two New Directors (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Pioneer Drilling Company announced today that it has appointed John Michael Rauh and Scott D. Urban to serve on its Board of Directors.
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Debate over oil drilling continues at tourism summit (Bay News 9 Tampa Bay)
DESTIN (Bay News 9) -- As sky-high gas prices continue to hit consumers hard at the pumps, the battle over offshore drilling is heating up in Florida.
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Brazil`s offshore no challenge to Gulf oil producers (MENAFN)
Brazil`s offshore no challenge to Gulf oil producers
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Briefly in Tompkins (The Ithaca Journal)
The 400 block of Elm Street (east bound lane) will be closed between 7:30 a.m. today until approximately Wednesday, Oct. 8, for sanitary sewer flow monitoring station access modifications.
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Harold Pollack: Health reform when your life depends on it: Seven essential principles from the Multiple Sclerosis ... (HuffingtonPost)
Multiple sclerosis is a challenging illness that raises difficult issues in every area from basic stem cell research to insurance reforms, to disability policy, to...
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Robert Peston (BBC News)
Why the markets are calling time on Iceland
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Joyce: Sports in the real world of recession (ESPN)
Are sports recession-proof? As much as we`d like to hope they are, the current financial crisis is blowing an ill wind around the games we watch. Business as usual? Hardly.
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Asian Money Rates Surge on Concern Bank Failures May Spread (Bloomberg)
Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Asian banks` borrowing costs rose to the highest levels in at least nine months after the collapse of lenders in the U.S. and Europe deepened a global credit freeze.
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The ins and outs of life settlements (Bankrate.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Before cashing in that life insurance policy you no longer need, make sure you understand life settlements.
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Life Settlements -- a More Valuable Option Than Ever, Says Life Insurance Settlement Association (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
A Major American Insurer often runs ads that talk about how rapidly life can change. The Life Insurance Settlement Association, the voice of the industry, has always been aware of this fact. This is part of the reason it has so vigorously resisted efforts by insurers and some regulators to constrain consumer rights for a fixed period in the settlement market based on ";indicative circumstances"; ...
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Payday lending supporters appear to be push polling (The Plain Dealer)
Sheryl Harris writes this column in The Plain Dealer on Saturdays.Previous columns onlineCONSUMER WISEA weekly column about consumer affairsSupporters of payday lending apparently are conducting a telephone ";push poll"; to sway voters on Issue 5. Push polls sound like...
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Landmark Norfolk Victorian to become entertainment venue (Republican-American)
NORFOLK -- The new owner of the landmark, elegant green Victorian along Route 44 is preparing its latest incarnation as a restaurant and entertainment destination.
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Sponsored By: (Fernandina Beach News-Leader)
IN THE JUVENILE COURT OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TENNESSEE AT CLARKSVILLE No. 138-116; 138-117 STATE OF TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN`S SERVICES PETITIONER vs.
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LEGAL NOTICES 10-2-08 (Drummer)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default has occurred in conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: July 18, 2007. MORTGAGOR(S): Scott A. Steenerson and Mildred R. Steenerson, husband and wife.
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Public Notices (Columbia Star)
NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED VEHICLES/PUBLIC SALE The following vehicles are subject to towing, repair and/or storage liens; are declared to be abandoned pursuant to Section 56-5-5810,
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Louisiana Business: GE, ProBono Gala, Mortgage Aid, Road Home, DEQ (Bayou Buzz)
October 1, 2008
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German Stocks Fall to Lowest Since 2006; Hypo Real Estate Drops (Bloomberg)
Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- German stocks fell the most in eight months, sending the DAX Index to the lowest since July 2006, as the deepening credit crunch forced the country`s financial industry to double a credit line for Hypo Real Estate Holding AG and the government to guarantee personal savings accounts.
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Real estate firm falls to earth (BizJournals)
Heaven Investments Holding Corp., a Sacramento company that promised its investors strong returns with fractional investments into real estate, is seeking bankruptcy court protection while it reorganizes.
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Commercial real estate feels pinch (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Concerns mount for income-producing properties. Tightened credit has slowed the market and cut into refinancing.
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Real Estate Live (Washington Post)
Welcome to Real Estate Live, an online discussion of the Washington area housing market with Post Real Estate editor Maryann Haggerty and columnist Elizabeth Razzi.
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School property search no easy task (The Longview News-Journal)
People in the real estate and education fields say there`s more than one way of finding property for new schools.
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Meghan McCain visits Art Museum (Philly.com)
Wearing a star tattoo on her foot and election-themed jewelry, 23-year-old Meghan McCain took a tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art yesterday.
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';Just like realty and gold, investment in art is a wise option'; (IE via Yahoo! India News)
From Mumbai to Ludhiana and from diamonds to selling art, Sukhvir Singh has done it all.
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Winner of NZ’s biggest women only art exhibition (Scoop.co.nz)
Masterton’s Taren Wood won the top prize at the New Zealand women’s art exhibition which has just ended in Gisborne.
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Regions first green campus in Malabe (Daily News)
Entrepreneur and former owner of Asha Central Hospital Dr. Neville Fernando would be investing over Rs. one billion to put up South Asian Institute of Technology and Management (SAITM) at Malabe.
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Where Wall Street learned the high art of deception (Austin American-Statesman)
Here`s your quiz question for the day: Who is the biggest liar of them all?
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