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Hedge Funds Are Dumping Tanger Factory Outlet Centers Inc. (SKT)

Tanger Factory Outlet Centers Inc. (NYSE:SKT) shareholders have witnessed a decrease in hedge fund sentiment in recent months. In the financial world, there are plenty of methods market participants can use to monitor their holdings. Some of the most useful are hedge fund and insider trading sentiment. At Insider Monkey, our research analyses have shown [...]

Jean-Michel Sévérino: Why Development in the 21st Century Must Be Centered on Nature and Local Communities

The World Bank reported earlier this year that global poverty rates continue to fall. While this is extremely encouraging news at a time of financial...

Final pieces lifted to top of Freedom Tower

2 months agoNews : Field Notes

On a clear sunny day in New York City's financial district, building crews hoisted the final steel spire that will top One World Trade Center, also known as Freedom Tower. The spire, weighing about 758 tons, will crown the building at 1,776 feet when finally installed. Once in pl …

Last pieces of spire lifted to top of One World Trade Center

2 months agoNews : Field Notes

On a clear sunny day in New York City's financial district, building crews hoisted the final steel spire that will top One World Trade Center. The spire itself is about 758 tons, and when finally installed will crown the building at 1,776 feet. Once fully in place and the buildin …

Bitcoin and the Rebirth of Financial Safe Havens

Banks and even entire jurisdictions are feverishly responding to increased government scrutiny from the world's monetary power centers in the name of exposing political corruption, combating terrorism, and preventing tax evasion.

States Fight Back Against MERS Mortgage Fraud

MERS: The Center of the Mortgage Scam A prominent economist said about the 2008 financial crisis: “At the root of the crisis we find the largest financial swindle in world history”, where “counterfeit” mortgages were “laundered” by the banks. The Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems – MERS – was one of the main ways the swindle was done, and the main...Read More

Hedge Funds Are Selling DDR Corp (DDR) – Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), Regency Centers Corp (REG)

DDR Corp (NYSE:DDR) has experienced a decrease in support from the world’s most elite money managers recently. If you’d ask most investors, hedge funds are assumed to be slow, outdated financial vehicles of years past. While there are greater than 8000 funds with their doors open today, we at Insider Monkey look at the masters [...]

Should You Buy Pennsylvania R.E.I.T. (PEI)?: Retail Opportunity Investments Corp (ROIC), Saul Centers Inc (BFS)

Pennsylvania R.E.I.T. (NYSE:PEI) investors should pay attention to an increase in hedge fund sentiment of late. In the financial world, there are plenty of methods investors can use to analyze the equity markets. Some of the most underrated are hedge fund and insider trading activity. At Insider Monkey, our research analyses have shown that, historically, [...]

Amazing recreation of Shanghai World Financial Center and Jin Mao Tower in Lego

3 months agoChina / Shanghai : Shanghaiist

Reader Christof S brings our attention to this awesome Lego recreation of Shanghai's World Financial Centre and the Jin Mao Tower by Spencer Rezkella. Rezkella has also left room for the Shanghai Tower, currently under construction. [ more › ]

Taking Immersive Theater on the Road with Retro Americana

3 months agoArts : Hyperallergic

Third Rail Projects has performed their visually creative pieces in the middle of lunch hour at the World Financial Center, in a former hospital in Brooklyn, and in an opera house in upstate New York, bringing modern dance to an audience who might not usually seek it. Show More Summary

Watch: Extreme cyclist jumps up all 2,754 steps of the Shanghai WFC, breaks world record

3 months agoChina / Shanghai : Shanghaiist

Some world records you have to see to really understand. It took only 1 hour, 21 minutes and 53 seconds for Polish cyclist Krystian Herba to hop up the 2,754 steps of the Shanghai World Financial Center on his bicycle. [ more › ]

New $2.6 Billion Financial Center Will Make Wall Street Look Pathetic

If you go anywhere in Europe, the one country everyone says to watch out for is Turkey. And the capital Istanbul, is one of the hottest cities in the world. The country is incredibly ambitious. It wants to make its economy one of the top 10 largest by 2023. Show More Summary

British Member Of Parliament Explains The Virtues Of A Financial Transactions Tax

There is no evidence that a financial transactions tax, if instituted by the world’s largest financial centers at a modest rate, would have a negative impact on economic growth, according to Christopher Leslie, a member of the British Parliament. That such a tax would limit growth and investment is a common claim of its detractors, [...]

WFC to get food market

It's official, a new food marketplace will be coming to lower Manhattan. Downtown restauranteur Peter Poulakakos has signed a contract to run a 30,000-square-foot marketplace at World Financial Center, according to the New York Post....Show More Summary

NTT expands its IaaS geographies and touts its use of SDN

4 months agoTechnology : GigaOM

More NTT Communications data centers with virtualized networks allow more enterprises around the world to see first-hand the financial and operations advantages of software-defined networking.

NYC-ARTS: Canstruction NYC 2012: Building Awareness and Breaking the Rules for a Good Cause

Every year for the past 20 years, teams of architects and engineers descend upon the Winter Garden at World Financial Center to do what they do best -- build impressive structures. Using only unopened cans of food, some creative planning and lots of ingenuity.

The Aurora Borealis Appears In NYC

A new LED installation by artist Anne Militello lights up the Brrokfield Place World Financial Center.

PHOTOS: Anne Militello’s Light Cycles LED Art Installation Unveiled at the World Financial Center

This year, winter in NYC will be all the more beautiful with this stunning new light installation by artist Anne Militello located in Brookfield Place World Financial Center. Opened just last night, Light Cycles transforms a ten story glass pavilion into a dazzling light sculpture that can be seen sparkling from as far away as New Jersey. We checked [...]

Jefferies becomes latest financial firm to stay put

After months of speculation that Jefferies Group Inc. might move to a new building either on the West Side of midtown or at the World Trade Center site, the investment bank has instead become the latest in a series of such firms to opt to renew its lease and stay put. Show More Summary

A Tale Of Two New York Cities: The Rich And The Hungry

New York's apparent success as a financial and cultural center of the world (and anchor for the liquidity flood of the world's central banks via bank er bonuses) has an ugly side. The inflationary impact of the extremely wealthy is squeezing food prices to the point that many low income families simply cannot afford to eat. Show More Summary

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