| The most expensive on-campus housing: Living in the lap of luxury
Although Cambridge House no longer has maids or room service, the residence hall still offers students a bit of hotel luxury unavailable elsewhere on campus.
The hall's 110 students enjoy private bathrooms and carpeting.
That's why Cambridge House, attached to the Michigan Union and West Quad, is the most expensive residence hall on campus, University Housing spokesman Alan Levy said.
For the first 60 years of its existence, Cambridge House was part of the Michigan Union Hotel, Levy. said.
After the hotel closed in 1979 the University decided to turn the building into a residence hall.
Room and board in a deluxe single at Cambridge cost $10,692.00 this past school year, while a smaller traditional single cost $10,332.
A User's Guide to Investing in "the Real Russia"
In this post, Vladimir Kuznetsov, director of equity finance at the Finam Investment Company in Moscow, notes that foreign investors now have access to more information about investing in Russia's long-neglected regions thanks to a new investment guide issued by the Marchmont Capital Partners firm in Nizhny Novgorod. Mr. Kuznetsov also rounds up the news from this week in Russian financial markets. -The Editors About six month ago I met a rare paragon of entrepreneurship - an American businessman who does not live in Moscow, but in the detached city of Nizhny Novgorod. This week Kendrick White, managing principal of the Nizhny Novgorod-based firm Marchmont Capital Partners, announced the publication of the first ¬volume of the Marchmont Investment Guide. This book is part of a very promising effort to open the "riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma" of Russia's regions.
Commercial Real Estate Expert Offers Helpful Insight into the ...
CHICAGO - The world of commercial real estate is thriving. According to the National Association of REALTORS, more than half of its 25,000 members surveyed in 2006 had an annual gross income of $75,000 to $249,000, with five percent grossing over $500,000 or more. However, many people who want to enter this growing field are unsure of how to get started, and the lack of guidance and information, especially in comparison to the residential real estate industry, can make breaking into this field very difficult. In her new book, The Insiders Guide to Commercial Real Estate, author and real estate expert Cindy Chandler provides a complete guide and step-by-step advice on how to enter and build a successful career in commercial real estate. It also is helpful to investors who want to make intelligent investment decisions.
Home Business Guild of Blades Publishing Offers Gift Certificates
April 7, 2007 ( PowerHomeBiz ) DAVISON, MI --- The Guild of Blades Publishing Group is please to be able to offers its customers its new Gift Certificate program. As a leading publisher of adventure and strategy board and role playing games, the Guild of Blades would frequently be contacted customers inquiring about ideal gifts to purchase as presents for their friends or family. (news continued below)
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Wall Street mixed in cautious trade
NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street was narrowly mixed Thursday, pausing after its recent gains and before Friday's release of key employment figures used to gauge the overall economy. Investors traded cautiously since the stock market is closed on Friday for the Easter holiday. The pullback followed three straight days of gains. There was little reaction to a Labor Department report that first-time claims for unemployment benefits rose to their highest weekly level since March 3. Instead, Wall Street remained focused on the government's March jobs report -- released on a day where there is no trading, which sets up Monday as a possibly critical day for stocks. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 20.73, or 0.17 percent, to 12,509.32. Broader stock indicators were mixed.
Study Shows that Affluent Investors Prefer Dow Jones News
NEW YORK, March 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ) today released the results of its Affluent Investor Study conducted by Beta Research. The study revealed that affluent investors trust, value and make investment decisions more frequently and more confidently with Dow Jones News and news products than with any other source. Among other highlights, the study showed that The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires ranked first and second, respectively, in terms of familiarity among financial news sources and as the sources that affluent investors rely on when making investment decisions. Additionally, the study found the Dow Jones family of products, including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Barron's, SmartMoney and MarketWatch, was ranked as most credible and the preferred financial news source by more than 50% of the survey respondents.
Planning for April 15, 2008
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