The Asian property sector started slowing down sometime in 2007 and remained weak in 2008 due to the slowdown in the global economy and the cautious state of investors after the crash of the United States housing market.

The meltdown resulted in the collapse of several large banking and financial institutions in the United States and [...]

NTPM Holdings profits surged, handily beating our forecast earnings in FYEAprO9 by 15.5% despite 4Q being a seasonally slow quarter. 4Q’s low 18% effective tax rate helped. The low share price volatility and the previous 8% dividend growth promised this to be a stock for the medium to long term.
As it continues to notch up [...]

Born    : August 17, 1944 in Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Occupation      : Co-founder and CEO, Oracle Corporation
Salary              : $500.0 million USD (2008)
Net Worth       : Below $22.5 billion USD (2009)
Spouse(s)         : Adda Quinn (m. 1967–1974), Nancy Wheeler Jenkins (m. 1977–1978), Barbara Boothe (m. 1983–1986), Melanie Craft (m. 2003–present)

Oracle Corporation, one of the major companies developing database management systems (DBMS), [...]

It should be remembered that greed always sells. Rationality or rational behavior does not sell. A harsh reality today is that getting wealthy in real terms is not as easy as it used to be.  It could take as long as five years for asset managers around the world to recoup the US$ 10 trillion [...]