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March 9th, 2010 by voiletadams

Source: SYS-CON Media (press release) (Original Article)

NEW YORK, March 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Despite recent volatility in global markets, commodities markets continue to react positively to signs of ongoing economic recovery.

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Andrew Karsh, Co-Lead Portfolio Manager for the Credit Suisse Total Commodity Return Strategy said, “While markets continue to remain reactionary to news which creates uncertainty, such as recent concerns surrounding the debt crisis in Greece, the trend towards stability and continued growth in the consumption of raw materials is undeniable. Additionally, increased government infrastructure projects financed by the global stimulus programs should continue to drive demand for commodities over the short to medium term.”

Co-Lead Portfolio Manager, Christopher Burton, added, “Price dynamics for each commodity tend to be unique based on harvest cycles, mining capacities or even weather patterns; therefore, when combined with changes in demand for products such as food, infrastructure development, or the energy required to produce both, a broad-based investment in commodities markets can provide thematic exposure to the benefits of this unique asset class.”

Although commodities are still down year-to-date, the market rebounded in February with the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Total Return gaining 3.71% for the month. All sectors were up for the month with Industrial Metals leading the way, up 6.06% due to Nickel’s strong performance. Nickel gained 14.27%, due to increased production of stainless steel from Asian countries in conjunction with lessened supplies of the metal from Canadian mines. Crude Oil was the strongest of all Energy components, posting a gain of 8.49%, while Cotton finished up 17.54% as a result of increased imports from China.

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March 6th, 2010 by voiletadams

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U-Store-It CEO to Present at the Citi 2010 Global Property CEO Conference

February 28th, 2010 by voiletadams

Source: SYS-CON Media (press release) (Original Article)

WAYNE, PA — (Marketwire) — 03/01/10 — U-Store-It Trust (NYSE: YSI) today announced that company CEO Dean Jernigan is presenting at the Citi 2010 Global Property CEO Conference in Palm Beach, Florida on March 2, 2010 at 8:25 a.m.

The presentation is accessible to the public by dialing 877-211-0500 and using the Passcode 9533980.

About the Company
U-Store-It Trust is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. The Company provides self-storage solutions across the country. U-Store-It owns and or manages 374 facilities across the United States, and operates the U-Store-It Network, which consists of approximately 725 additional self-storage facilities. The Company’s self-storage facilities, storage space and storage solutions are designed to offer affordable, easily accessible, secure, and in most locations, climate-controlled storage space for residential and commercial customers, as well as boat storage and mini storage. According to the 2009 Self Storage Almanac, U-Store-It Trust is one of the top four owners and operators of self-storage facilities in the U.S. For more information, visit www.ustoreit.com.

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February 16th, 2010 by voiletadams

Source: Seeking Alpha (blog) (Original Article)

Seeking Alpha editors Eli Hoffmann and Jason Aycock contributed to this post.

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‘Glacier’ ice rink opens

February 10th, 2010 by voiletadams

Source: The Age (Original Article)

MELBOURNE’S new $58 million ice sports complex at Docklands will open today with a free night session for the public.
The complex, in Docklands’ Waterfront City area, will boost the beleaguered precinct following the breakdown last year of the Southern Star observation wheel.
Developers of The Icehouse, ING Real Estate, say it is Australia’s only complex with two rinks.
It will be home to the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia and have seating for 1000 spectators.
At 7200 square metres, The Icehouse has been designed by Cox Architects to resemble the melt line in a glacier. It will be Melbourne’s second ice rink, after the long-established Oakleigh Ice Skating Centre.
The official unveiling is at 11.45am, , when hundreds of school children will watch figure skating, short-track speed skating, ice hockey and curling.
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Frugal living isn’t the same as being cheap

February 6th, 2010 by voiletadams

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune (Original Article)

Frugality. That’s been the buzzword of the Great Recession.

Sliding home values, stumbling stock portfolios and a shaky job market brought with them a consciousness about spending that many of us misplaced during years of consumer overindulgence. Americans responded to the crisis by buying less, clipping coupons more and increasing savings to 4.8 percent of disposable income in December, up from near zero before the recession.

In the past year, blogs about frugality went viral. Everyone from Oprah to President Obama joined the frugality parade.

Now a new term is marching through the blogosphere: Frugality fatigue. But I’d argue that if frugality is done right, there should be no such thing.

Being frugal doesn’t mean being stingy, miserly or downright cheap. The true spirit of frugality is to be mindful of how you use your limited resources. To be prudent with your money. To buy the best of what you need but no more. To avoid waste.

That’s why the new frugality aligns so well with the growing interest in living green, argues American Public Media’s economics expert Chris Farrell in his new book, "The New Frugality."

"A sustainable sensibility both saves money and does good," writes Farrell, who also writes a column for the Star Tribune.

The new frugality also means embracing a "margin of safety" in your money life, he says. Spend less than you make. Have months’ worth of salary set aside in a savings account. Never charge anything you can’t afford to pay off at month’s end. That’s the new frugality.

But even more than smart saving and spending, to me the new frugality is freedom. By saving money and keeping life simple, a job loss or a drop in income doesn’t create an immediate catastrophe. Low expenses mean having the freedom to take a needed break after a layoff, or to choose a job with more than compensation in mind. The fewer expenses you have, the more you can spend on cheap domstic flights from Kalgoorlie to Perth things that matter to you — family, …continue reading

Singapore’s richest man dies

February 1st, 2010 by voiletadams

Source: Earthtimes (press release) (Original Article)

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Former Ritchie HQ for sale

January 29th, 2010 by voiletadams

Source: Kansas.com (Original Article)

Hale Ritchie’s happy being the landlord of one of northwest Wichita’s most visible Class A office buildings.

But if there’s a buyer out there for the former Ritchie Paving corporate headquarters on Ridge Road near 29th North, Ritchie’s willing to sell.

The 45,610-square-foot, fully leased building at 2872 N. Ridge Road, built in 1994, carries an asking price of $4.975 million and is being marketed by its largest tenant, J.P. Weigand & Sons.

“I don’t really care if we do or don’t sell it,” said Ritchie, who’s overseeing Rainbows United’s emergence from bankruptcy.

“But it’s a good building, we’ve got it leased up, and if we can find a buyer who’ll pay a good price for it, that’s fine.”

Ritchie and his cousin, Tom Ritchie, have been divesting themselves of businesses and real estate for the past several years. The headquarters has been part of that sale effort, he said.

Ritchie Cos., in Wichita since 1917, sold its concrete, aggregates and paving companies in 2006 to Lafarge North America.

The plant just east of the Ridge Road building was sold to Atlanta-based Quikrete Cement and Concrete Products.

Patrick Ritchie, Hale’s son, is marketing the building with Marty Gilchrist for Weigand.

Weigand moved its west office to the building in early 2007 and now occupies more than half of it with 24,000 square feet.

The company intends to remain there, said Jerry Gray, Weigand’s commercial general manager.

Other tenants include Tect Aerospace, eServ and United Bio Energy, the longest tenured tenant.

Patrick Ritchie said the building is 100 percent leased long-term, which should make it attractive to investment buyers.

“Once the family started the divestiture, we were looking for strong lease terms with market rates,” he said. “It was something we were lacking because the building was owner-occupied for so long.”

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Cooper Industries Plc. Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

January 26th, 2010 by voiletadams

Source: Seeking Alpha (blog) (Original Article)

Cooper Industries Plc (CBE)

Q4 2009 Earnings Call

January 26, 2010 12:00 pm ET

Executives

Mark Doheny – Director of Investor Relations

Kirk Hachigian – Chairman, Chief Executive Officer

Terry Klebe – Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

Analysts

Jeff Sprague – Citigroup

Robert Cornell – Barclays Capital

Rich Kwas – Wells Fargo

Scott Davis – Morgan Stanley

Terry Darling – Goldman Sachs

Presentation

Operator

Welcome to the fourth quarter 2009 Cooper Industries earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions) I would now like to turn the call over to your host for today, Mark Doheny, Director of Investor Relations.

Mark Doheny

Welcome to the Cooper Industries fourth quarter 2009 earnings conference call. With me today is Kirk Hachigian, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and Terry Klebe, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

We have posted a presentation on our website that we’ll refer to throughout this call. If you’d like to view this presentation, please go to the investors section of our website, www.cooperindustries.com.

As a reminder, comments made during this call may include forward-looking statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside the control of the company and therefore actual results may differ materially from those anticipated by Cooper. A discussion of these factors may be found in the company’s annual report on Form 10-K and other recent SEC filings.

In addition, comments made here may include non-GAAP financial measures. To the extent that they have been anticipated, reconciliations of those measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are included in the press release and the web presentation.

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