BRIEFCASE.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services CB Richard Ellis CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. NYSE: CBG is a multinational real estate corporation currently based in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.. On December 20, 2006, the corporation, also known as CBRE, completed acquisition of Trammell Crow Co. in a transaction valued at $2. adds to holdings CB Richard Ellis Group Inc. said Wednesday that it will buy all of the remaining outstanding shares of its 10 percent-owned Irish affiliate, CB Richard Ellis Gunne, for $24.6 million in cash. The deal gives CB Richard Ellis a leading position in the rapidly growing real estate market in Ireland, the company said. Headquartered in Dublin, CB Richard Ellis Gunne is a full-service commercial real estate services companies. It employs 105 people in Dublin and Belfast. With a domestic economy growing at more than 5 percent per year, Ireland has one of the healthiest leasing and investment markets in Europe, the company said. Pod2Mob feeds podcast (iPOD broadCAST) An audio broadcast that has been converted to an MP3 file or other audio file format for playback in a digital music player or computer. The "pod" in podcast was coined from "iPod," the predominant portable, digital music player, and although podcasts are growth A California company is hoping to tap into the growing podcasting Recording a non-music audio broadcast (news, sports, discussion, etc.) in the MP3 format for playback in a digital music player. See podcast. craze with software that enables mobile phone users to stream audio files directly from their home computer. Podcasts are recorded audio files downloaded over the Internet. They can be stored on computers or transferred to digital music players Hardware or software that plays audio files encoded in MP3, AAC, WMA or other audio formats. There are several software-based music players that play audio files in a desktop or laptop computer, including iTunes, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player. like Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod. The software from Los Angeles-based Pod2Mob promises to enable mobile phone users to hear podcasts on their handsets, too. Currently available for free as a ``beta'' test download, the software runs on Windows and Mac OX computers. The software relays the audio to a mobile phone. An applet, or small computer program, that must be loaded on the handset allows users to control which podcasts they want to hear. The address is www.pod2mobile.com Storm concerns boost oil prices Oil prices surged to a new high above $67 a barrel Wednesday on concerns about a storm that could hit production sites in the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east and a U.S. government report that showed a decline in the nation's gasoline supply. Natural gas futures also rallied on the storm fears - even though forecasters anticipate a weak hurricane - as traders recalled the months-long disruption to oil and gas production in the region following last year's Hurricane Ivan This article is about the Atlantic hurricane of 2004. For other storms of the same name, see Tropical Storm Ivan (disambiguation). Hurricane Ivan was the strongest hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season. . After climbing as high as $67.40 per barrel, crude oil for October delivery settled at $67.32, an increase of $1.61 on the New York Mercantile Exchange New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) The world's largest physical commodity futures exchange. , topping the front-month contract's previous closing high of $66.86, set Aug. 12. Home sales high, factory orders low WASHINGTON - Sales of new homes shot to a record high in July, while U.S. factories saw orders for costly manufactured goods manufactured goods npl → manufacturas fpl; bienes mpl manufacturados manufactured goods npl → produits manufacturés drop by the largest amount in 18 months. The mixed-message reports released Wednesday by the Commerce Department dramatized the vibrancy of the housing market and also the occasionally erratic pace of recovery from the 2001 recession in manufacturing. Taken together, though, the reports still pointed to an economy that is moving ahead at a decent clip. New-home sales in July soared to a seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Mathematically adjusted by moderating a macroeconomic indicator (e.g., oil prices/imports) so that relative comparisons can be drawn from month to month all year. annual rate of 1.41 million units. That represented a 6.5 percent increase from June's pace of 1.32 million units, which had been the previous record. |
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