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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

12/10/08 The Raw Greenwich Business News Feed For Wednesday




Eyecare Business


For the past several years, the luxury sector has grown faster than most other areas at retail. Due to the current economic turmoil, those days may just be gone....


... "We're surviving on our repeat business with good clients," says Eddy Mamelok, owner of Greenwich, Conn.-based 20/20 Optical. "People that have money still have money, so it's also important to keep your inventory up-to-date."...


The Raw Greenwich Business News Feed Continues.....


Congress Should Swiftly Adopt Legislation to Close Current Tax...
MarketWatch
... Congress to move swiftly towards adoption," Mr. Berkley concluded. In addition to W. R. Berkley Corporation of Greenwich, CT, the Coalition For A Domestic Insurance Industry includes: AMBAC Financial Group, Inc., New York, NY; American Financial ...

T-Bill Yields Go Negative
CrossingWallStreet.com
... began selling the debt in 2001. a oeIta s the year-end factor,a said Chris Ahrens, an interest-rate strategist in Greenwich, Connecticut, at UBS Securities LLC, one of the 17 primary dealers that trade directly with the Federal Reserve. a oeEveryone ...

UPDATED: Creditor Files to Liquidate Equity Media, Claims Company Cannot Meet Payroll Obligations
ArkansasBusiness.com
... repeatedly acted in their own self-interest rather than in the interest of creditors. Silver Point Finance LLC of Greenwich, Conn., filed the foreclosure suit and conversion motion, seeking to recoup about $41.5 million the private equity firm ...

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

11/04/08 The Raw Greenwich Business News Feed


More than just a hobby
Seacoast Online
... dolls and antique collectors items with price tags of up to $1,000. Diane Drake, owner of Diane's Doll Shoppe in Greenwich, Conn., said her highest priced dolls sell for around $2,500 and many antique doll collectors will pay more than $10,000 for a ...


Weaver Leather sells majority interest to private firm
The-Daily-Record.com
Weaver Leather has sold a majority interest to Capital Partners, a small Greenwich, Conn., private equity firm, to "ensure the long-term stability of the company," officials said in a release.


High-end U.S. markets show cracks in the foundation
The Real Deal
... $360,000, and in Beverly Hills, the median home price has plunged to $930,000 from $1.8 million the year before. Greenwich, Conn., with its manicured green lawns and pristine beaches, may have seemed immune to the real estate slump, but median ...


Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation's (MMRF) Annual Gala Raises More ...
Earth Times
NORWALK, Conn. - The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation raised over $1.5 million at its 12th annual "Friends for Life" Fall Gala held on November 1, 2008 in Greenwich, Conn.


Boeing jet production will be slow to restart
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
... in 2009, which had been the plan. In a report Monday, Peter Arment of American Technology Research, based in Greenwich, Conn., said the strike and other factors probably have delayed first flight to at least February or March, with deliveries ...


Genesee & Wyoming Q3 results top projections
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen
... er, coal, coke and ores, metals, farm and food products, minerals and stone, and petroleum products. Shares of the Greenwich, Connecticut-based company closed at $33.35 Friday on the New York Stock Exchange.


Rivals snatch AIG staff as uncertainty lingers
Business Insurance
... teams of AIG executives have moved to other insurers. For example, W.R. Berkley Corp. has picked up two teams. The Greenwich, Conn.-based insurer created a worldwide property unit for energy risks and named former AIG executive Frank Costa as its ...


Emerging markets face financing crunch
Globeinvestor.com
... the face of a continued refinancing freeze," Alan Ruskin, chief international strategist at RBS Global Banking in Greenwich, Connecticut, wrote clients. "Nowhere is this more acute than the foreign currency financing in the emerging world, where ...


Thursday, January 31, 2008

01/31/08 - Greenwich News Wire For Thursday


Featured News Articles About Greenwich

Greenwich doctor’s death tied to drugs, arrest made
Greenwich Post - Greenwich,CT,USA
A Stamford man is under arrest after what police are calling the drug-related death of former Greenwich Hospital plastic surgeon Ian Rubins. ...

Arrest made in connection with body found in Greenwich
Stamford Advocate - Stamford,CT,USA
By Martin B. Cassidy GREENWICH - Police have charged a Bridgeport man with plotting to kill a 49-year-old Bronx, NY, resident found shot to death on a ...

Wreckers Upset Greenwich, 71-65
Westport-News - Westport,CT,USA
The Staples High boys basketball team, who entered Friday's home game as a 20-point underdog to Greenwich High, had no business jumping out to a 19-point ...

Greenwich sets goals to go green
Greenwich Post - Greenwich,CT,USA
Making good on her campaign pledge to focus on the “green” in Greenwich, Selectwoman Lin Lavery officially announced the formation of the town’s ...

Greenwich family sues town, pool maker after son drowns
Greenwich Post - Greenwich,CT,USA
The parents of a Greenwich boy who drowned last year after his arm became caught in a swimming pool suction drain are suing the pool maker and the town. ...

Greenwich mission
Connecticut Jewish Ledger - West Hartford,CT,USA
Seventeen members of the Greenwich Jewish community capped off 2007 by spending 10 days soaking up the sights, sounds and culture of Israel. ...

Featured Blog Posts About Greenwich

DNA of Leadership
The Library and the YWCA of Greenwich co-sponsor the program. Glaser is an executive coach and CEO/President of Benchmark Communications, Inc. Free and open to the public. Reservations not required.
Greenwich Library | Today's Events - http://www.greenwichlibrary.org

Greenwich Attorney License Suspended in Computer Porn Destruction
A Greenwich attorney convicted of destroying a laptop computer containing child pornography has agreed to give up his law license for a year. Philip Russell destroyed a computer that belonged to a music director at a prominent Greenwich ...
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STATE-OF-THE-ART COMMUNITY CARE | Greenwich Hospital
At Greenwich Hospital, a 174-bed community teaching hospital located minutes from I-95, I-684, I-287, and the Merritt/Hutchinson Parkway, you'll find a beautiful, state-of-the-art f.
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Police Make Arrest In Greenwich Investigation
Investigators said police agencies as far away as Washington DC have helped with the investigation.
- http://video.wnbc.com/player/?id=0


The Raw Greenwich News Feed
News Articles And Blog Posts That Are About Or Mention Greenwich

  1. Connecticut lawyer who destroyed evidence in child pornography case to give up license

    International Herald Tribune

    GREENWICH, Conn. : An attorney convicted of destroying a church music director's computer containing child pornography has agreed to give up his law license for a year, attorneys said.


  2. MARKETS: U.S and European stocks rise after bond insurer's outlook improves

    International Herald Tribune

    ... firms and markets. "There's MBIA and Ambac reversing," said Steve Goldman, market strategist at Weeden, in Greenwich, Connecticut. "MBIA's coming out and saying it's not as bad as everyone thought it would be." Meanwhile, U.S. government data ...

  3. Look Who's Making Coin Off The Credit Crisis
    Forbes
    ... directly marketing to people. They're finding us now." Business is so good that hedge funds are piling in, too. Greenwich, Connecticut-based Patriot Group owns a stake in Merchant Cash & Capital, for example. Other players rumored to be investing in ...


  4. Google Call Options Climb on Speculation Before Today's Quarterly Earnings

    Bloomberg.com

    ... of spinning like a whirling dervish on earnings announcements and market momentum,'' options strategists at Greenwich, Connecticut-based Interactive Brokers Group Inc. wrote in a research note. Options traders expect as much as a 9 percent ...


  5. Pedestrian killed in morning accident

    Norwalk Advocate

    A town woman was struck and killed by a garbage truck on Havemeyer Place early this morning as she walked across a driveway heading towards Greenwich Avenue, police said.


  6. Books for Grownups: January 2008

    Publishers' Weekly

    ... in this mystery about a Manhattan bookshop clerk who inherits a fortune from her late father and moves to Greenwich, Conn., where she falls in with a group of smart, bored housewives who gossip, drink too much and sleep around with each other's ...


  7. The testing of long-term Eddie

    The Economist

    ... After all, it is only five years since the billionaire investor was kidnapped in the garage of his office in leafy Greenwich, Connecticut, and spent a weekend tied up in a motel bath-tub before somehow talking his way to freedom. But as far as his ...


  8. Market rebounds after bond insurer comments

    WNED.org

    ... late Wednesday. "There's MBIA and Ambac reversing," said Steve Goldman, market strategist at Weeden & Co. in Greenwich, Connecticut. "MBIA is coming out and saying it's not as bad as everyone thought it would be." Bank stocks turned higher shortly ...


  9. Market set to drop on "shock" jobless data

    Earth Times

    ... indicate significant softening in the labor market," said Michael Darda, chief economist at MKM Partners LLC in Greenwich, Connecticut. Stock futures were down before the data on worries about the credit sector and bond insurers. Credit rating ...


  10. Lawyer who destroyed evidence agrees to give up license

    Hartford Courant

    An attorney convicted of destroying a laptop computer containing child pornography that belonged to a music director at a prominent Greenwich church has agreed to give up his law license for one year, attorneys ...

  11. Genesee & Wyoming Inc. to Present at BB&T Capital Markets 2008 Transportation Conference

    PR Newswire

    ... also performs contract coal loading and railcar switching for industrial customers. Corporate headquarters is in Greenwich, Conn. For more information, contact Michael Williams, Director of Corporate Communications, Genesee & Wyoming, 203-629-3722. ...


  12. Habitat to hold gala

    Minuteman

    ... County will hold its ninth annual Hearts & Hammers Gala on Saturday, Feb. 9, from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the Greenwich Hyatt Regency Hotel in Old Greenwich. Habitat for Humanity of Coastal Fairfield County is based in Bridgeport and serves communities ...


  13. Michelle Obama campaigns in Greenwich, Stamford

    Norwalk Advocate

    ... sure people see our faces and here our voices,' Obama said in an interview between campaign events in Stamford and Greenwich. Obama, 44, an Ivy League-educated lawyer and mother of two, made appearances in two quite different settings yesterday. ...


  14. Signature Flight Support Contracts for PASSUR(R) FBO System

    PR Newswire

    GREENWICH, Conn., Jan. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Megadata Corporation announced today that Signature Flight Support, the world's largest fixed base operation and distribution network for business aviation ...


  15. Weekly jobless claims surge

    6 hrs ago | Reuters

    ... here's headline shock in a number like 375 (thousand)," said Michael Darda, chief economist at MKM Partners LLC in Greenwich, Connecticut.


  16. Wyeth's 4th-quarter earnings up 17 pct.

    The Philadelphia Inquirer

    ... solid net revenue growth is driven by Enbrel and Prevnar," said Barbara Ryan, an analyst with Deutsche Bank in Greenwich

    , Connecticut, in a note to clients. "But over the longer term, growth will moderate given the modest commercial prospects for ...

  17. Michelle Obama visits Connecticut ... Barack on the way

    My Left Nutmeg

    Michelle Obama spent time talking to people at a diner in Stamford, CT, and then attended a fundraiser in Greenwich hosted by Ned Lamont.


  18. Mortgage bonds vulnerable to bank selling

    Reuters

    ... poor investment decisions and dealing with more write-downs," said Pankaj Jha, head of mortgage strategy at RBS Greenwich Capital in Greenwich, Connecticut. "Heavy bank selling is one of the major concerns to the agency MBS market right now," he ...


  19. Sully's Sports

    Minuteman

    ... Bowling league (CIBL) is flourishing. There are 12 teams from the county in the league including, Fairfield Prep, Greenwich, Fairfield, Platt Tech, Bunnell, Harding, Notre Dame, Bridgeport Central, Bassick, Saint Joseph, Joel Barlow and Stratford. ...

  20. Local man charged in Greenwich homicide

    Connecticut Post

    Greenwich detectives have arrested a Bridgeport man in the slaying of a 49-year-old Bronx, N.Y., resident found shot to death on a private backcountry road early this month, Greenwich Police Chief David Ridberg ...

  21. Wyeth Net Climbs 17% on Higher Sales of Pneumonia Vaccine, Arthritis Drug

    Bloomberg

    ... solid net revenue growth is driven by Enbrel and Prevnar,'' said Barbara Ryan, an analyst with Deutsche Bank in Greenwich, Connecticut, in a note to clients. ``But over the longer term, growth will moderate given the modest commercial prospects for ...


  22. $1.25 million house in Redwood City - with revenue opportunities

    Burbed.com

    On Monday, we showed you what a $1.295 million dollar house looks like in Greenwich, CT where the income regularly tops $500k. Let's look a house in that price range here in the Bay Area: MLS-2.com: Property ...


  23. Wyeth sees big gains

    Daily Record

    ... solid net revenue growth is driven by Enbrel and Prevnar,'' said Barbara Ryan, an analyst with Deutsche Bank in Greenwich, Connecticut, in a note to clients. ``But over the longer term, growth will moderate given the modest commercial prospects for ...


  24. Interested in emerging markets and freight shipping stocks? Read this.

    TheStreet.com

    ... indicator of commercial traffic," says Michael Darda, director of research and chief economist at MKM Partners in Greenwich, Conn. "Shipping rates are viewed as a measure of demand and they are looked at the same way other commodity prices are." ...


  25. Scholastic Roundup: GHS swimming breezes by Fairfield

    Norwalk Advocate

    The Greenwich High School boys swimming and diving team showed off its depth and wealth of young talent with an easy 123-62 victory over a co-operative Fairfield squad.


  26. GSO resurrects old favorites 'Diaries of the Soul' to feature soloist Stephanie Chase

    Norwalk Advocate

    When the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra announced its season calendar in the fall, Music Director David Gilbert said the GSO would mark the company's 50th anniversary with performances of favorite and well-known ...


  27. Arrest made in connection with body found in Greenwich

    Norwalk Advocate

    GREENWICH - Police have charged a Bridgeport man with plotting to kill a 49-year-old Bronx, N.Y., resident found shot to death on a backcountry road earlier this month.


  28. Drug addict fights charge

    Norwalk Advocate

    The attorney for the pool worker accused of failing to call 911 while a Greenwich plastic surgeon was dying last week plans to ask a judge to dismiss manslaughter charges.

  29. The holiday season may be over, but many are still in need

    Norwalk Advocate

    The Advocate and Greenwich Time Giving Fund provides assistance to needy families in lower Fairfield County.


  30. Strike a balance with capital spending

    Norwalk Advocate

    Keeping a tight rein on municipal spending in Greenwich is a sound idea, especially in light of economic difficulties that have emerged nationwide affecting government revenue as well as taxpayers' personal ...


  31. Homeless data cited in push for housing, veterans care

    Norwalk Advocate

    ... Department of Housing and Urban Development. For the second year, Connecticut communities, including Stamford, Greenwich and Norwalk, will conduct the counts during the same time and using the same methodologies. 'It's a more systematic ...


  32. Legislators urged to boost efforts to fight poverty

    Norwalk Advocate

    ... have to be on the streets to qualify,' he said. CTE Inc. is federally designated to reduce poverty in Stamford, Greenwich and Darien, and serves about 5,000 low-income people each year through educational, social and employment programs. ...


  33. Michelle Obama Brings A Message To Stamford Diner

    The Day

    ... swing through Connecticut was intended to be lucrative and productive. Before an evening fundraiser scheduled in Greenwich at the home of former Senate candidate Ned Lamont, the Obama campaign convened its meeting of the candidate's wife and ...


  34. in Search of the Homeless

    The Day

    ... a "snapshot" of Connecticut's homeless population. Last year the survey showed that nearly 4,000 households, from Greenwich to Hartford to New London, were homeless on the night of Jan. 30, 2007, according to survey organizers. The Day followed ...


  35. Massive deer slay only way to stop Lyme disease?

    LymeBlog News and Personal Stories

    ... come," Scholl said. "There's nothing that's been attempted that has successfully reduced Lyme disease." Reducing Greenwich's deer herd could be complicated, though. To begin with, it's unclear how many deer are here. A survey done seven years ago ...

  36. Wreckers Upset Greenwich, 71-65

    Westport News

    No one had, really, ever seen anything like it. The Staples High boys basketball team, who entered Friday's home game as a 20-point underdog to Greenwich High, had no business jumping out to a 19-point lead in ...


  37. do You Know: Kristen McMullen

    The Post and Courier

    Edward C. Fennell/The Post and Courier Kristen McMullen BIRTH DATE AND PLACE: July 1966, in Greenwich, Conn.


  38. Bridgeport man accused in killing of man found near Westchester border

    Journal News

    GREENWICH, Conn. - A Bridgeport man is accused of killing the Bronx, N.Y., man whose body was found earlier this month on a private country road near the Westchester County line.

  39. Bridgeport man accused in killing of man found near Westchester border

    Journal News

    GREENWICH, Conn. - A Bridgeport man is accused of killing the Bronx, N.Y., man whose body was found earlier this month on a private country road near the Westchester County line.


  40. Greenwich

    Westine Report

    Browse thousands of exclusive Greenwich real estate listings from Weichert Realtors.

  41. Michelle Obama stumps Connecticut

    Connecticut Post

    ... sure people see our faces and hear our voices," Obama said in an interview between campaign events in Stamford and Greenwich. Obama, 44, an Ivy League-educated lawyer and mother of two, made appearances in two quite different settings Wednesday. In ...

  42. Consumer Spending in U.S. Probably Weakened, Intensifying Recession Risk

    Bloomberg

    ... to be, the worse the drag heading into the current quarter,'' said Stephen Stanley, chief U.S. economist at RBS Greenwich Capital Markets in Greenwich, Connecticut. The Commerce figures may also show the index of core prices, which excludes food and ...


Saturday, December 29, 2007

12/29/07 - Several more lawsuits are pending against former Greenwich Resident Martin Frankel and others. About $126 million has been recovered.

State gets cut of Frankel assets

Sunherald.com

Mississippi will share in $72 million of assets seized from Martin Frankel, a former financier convicted of stealing from insurance companies....

... that he was investing the companies' assets, but instead stole the $200 million to pay for a two-house compound in Greenwich, Conn., luxury cars and several girlfriends, prosecutors said. Frankel fled the country in May 1999 shortly after a meeting ...

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