Spain Finance&Business - Monday January 21 2008
Archive Photo of the Madrid Stock Market - EFE Markets panic over concerns of a recession in the United States It's turning into a black Monday on the Spanish stock market today with the IBEX 35 index down by …

[Sounding Bored] Bless You: Ten Percenters Needed To Make Toxic Loans Work
January 20th, 2008 by Jonathan J. Miller Sounding Bored is my semi-regular column on the state of the appraisal profession.

Ricardo Scarpino was shot dead Saturday night in downtown Vancouver.
A week after he was released from prison, gangster Ricardo Francis Scarpino was shot to death Saturday night as he arrived at his own engagement party at an upscale Vancouver restaurant.

Pre-report forecast sees December home sales down
Sales of existing homes in the U.S. probably fell in December, capping the biggest yearly slump in almost a generation, economists said before a report this week.