NEW YORK, March 26- U.S. single-family home prices rose in January, starting the year with the biggest annual increase in six-and-a-half years in a fresh sign the housing market recovery remains on track, a closely watched survey showed on Tuesday. All of the 20 cities showed gains on a yearly basis, with New York rising for the first time in over two years.
NEW YORK, March 26- U.S. single-family home prices rose in January, starting the year with the biggest annual increase in six-and-a-half years in a fresh sign the housing market recovery remains on track, a closely watched survey showed on Tuesday. All of the 20 cities showed gains on a yearly basis, with New York rising for the first time in over two years.
March 26- Standard& Poor's on Tuesday released its Standard& Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index for January. NOT SEASONALLY SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ADJUSTED.
*Revel to reduce debt by more than 82 pct* Revel secures $250 mln in DIP financing* Expects to emerge from Chapter 11 by early summer* Expects normal operations to continue By Tom Hals and Jonathan Stempel.
LONDON, March 22- 888 could launch an online gaming offering in Nevada, home to gambling centre Las Vegas, as soon as May, a source said after the group won the first ever U.S. license to be awarded to an internet betting firm.
Suppliers like T. Boone Pickens' Clean Energy Fuels, Royal Dutch Shell and China's private ENN Group are scrambling to build natural gas fueling stations along U.S. highways, while Cummins-Westport Inc will begin later this year selling a 12- liter natural gas engine able to power the biggest trucks on the road.
LAS VEGAS/ LOS ANGELES, March 19- A judge in Nevada on Tuesday ruled against Las Vegas Sands Corp's effort to throw out a case against it by a businessman who says he is owed millions of dollars for helping the casino firm get an operating license in Macau.
WASHINGTON, March 19- The U.S. Air Force on Tuesday marked the start of operational testing of Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 stealth fighter at an air base near Las Vegas, but one of four initial jets to be tested remained in Texas after an unscheduled landing en route to the base last week.
*Cyprus crisis fuels worry about contagion in euro zone. *Parliament in Cyprus rejects tax on bank deposits. NEW YORK, March 19- U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday on uncertainty about how Cyprus will avoid a bankruptcy and possible reverberations in the euro zone as the region struggles to emerge from economic crisis.
WASHINGTON, March 18- Lockheed Martin Corp, the Pentagon's largest supplier, has named Orlando Carvalho the new head of aeronautics in place of Larry Lawson, the defense contractor said on Monday.
March 17- Walt Disney Co's "Oz the Great and Powerful" worked more box office magic in its second weekend, following up its strong debut a week earlier with $42.2 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales.
By Lisa Richwine and Chris Michaud. March 17- Walt Disney Co's. "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone," a new comedy featuring Steve Carrell and Jim Carrey as dueling Las Vegas magicians, finished the weekend in third place.
March 17- Walt Disney Co's "Oz the Great and Powerful" reigned over movie box offices in its second weekend, following up its strong debut a week earlier with $42.2 million at U.S. and Canadian theaters. "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone," a comedy featuring Steve Carrell and Jim Carrey as dueling Las Vegas magicians, finished the weekend in third place.
March 17- Walt Disney Co's "Oz the Great and Powerful" reigned over movie box offices in its second weekend, following up its strong debut a week earlier with $42.2 million at U.S. and Canadian theaters. "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone," a comedy featuring Steve Carrell and Jim Carrey as dueling Las Vegas magicians, finished the weekend in third place.
MANILA, March 16- Big casino operators will be scrutinising the Philippines' debut as Asia's newest top-end gambling destination this weekend to see if Manila can deliver on promises of better profit margins and lower costs than global betting capital Macau.
MANILA, March 16- Big casino operators will be scrutinising the Philippines' debut as Asia's newest top-end gambling destination this weekend to see if Manila can deliver on promises of better profit margins and lower costs than global betting capital Macau.
The projects, to be built mostly on federal lands in California and Nevada but funded privately, were announced by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar at a press conference in San Francisco.
The National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems' leadership did make the decision to hold their 2013 annual conference at a luxury resort in Hawaii before the financial crisis struck, hammering public pension funds' investments and leaving them with a funding gap of at least $770 billion.
SINGAPORE/ HONG KONG, March 7- Malaysian casino operator Genting Bhd envisions red and gold pagodas and a panda exhibit on the 87- acre plot of Las Vegas land it bought this week, a new gambling playground for rich Chinese moving their money overseas.