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European central banks act boldly to thaw interbank lending
The European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Swiss National Bank are offering commercial banks unlimited dollar loa -More
Capital Markets
U.K. to pump £37 billion into 3 banks
Under terms of the U.K.'s bank-rescue plan, Lloyds TSB, HBOS and Royal Bank of Scotland will not be allowed to pay dividends  -More
Capital Markets
Fannie, Freddie to start buying underperforming mortgage bonds
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been telling bond traders that they will each start buying $20 billion in underperforming mor -More
Capital Markets
Financial institution leaders discuss crisis, resolution
Stephen Schwarzman, chairman of Blackstone Group; Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock; Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs; Jamie  -More
Capital Markets
Sovereign-wealth funds hoard cash as markets plunge
Some of the largest sovereign-wealth funds, including funds in Kuwait and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, have been increasi -More
Investment News
Storage, apartment REITs still bucking broader trends
Storage and apartment REITs are still faring better than the broader sector.  -More
Investment News
Health care REITs pursue IPOs despite financial crisis
The market for initial public offerings, which has been decimated by the financial crisis, is finding some relief from health -More
Investment News
Host Hotels' results beat analysts' expectations
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Investment News
ProLogis ranked No. 1 in Carbon Disclosure Project Index
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Investment News
Despite downturn, group confident in real estate fund
Federal Capital Partners recently raised $230 million to invest in real estate -- a move that seems to fly in the face of con -More
Real Estate Marketplace
California's budget problems could spread to CRE
The financial crisis in California is expected to spread to the commercial real estate sector.  -More
NAREIT News
Register today for NAREIT's Annual Convention
NAREIT's 2008 Annual Convention will be held Nov. 19 to 21 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego.  -More
NAREIT News
Track performance of U.S. and global real estate markets
Updated daily, the FTSE NAREIT U.S.  -More
Policy Watch
European leaders agree to bank-rescue plan
European leaders pledged to not allow any large financial institutions to fail as part of a rescue plan for the region's bank -More
Policy Watch
FASB issues clarification on "fair value"
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has published a clarification on the application of "fair value" accounting where th -More
Policy Watch
Faith in regulators, government in doubt
Since the credit crunch and ensuing financial crisis began last year, regulators and other government officials have routinel -More
Policy Watch
Soros: U.S. Treasury must recapitalize banks carefully
George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management, writes that the recapitalization of U.S.  -More
SmartQuote
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer and philosopher
Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus. -More