Real Estate Weekly -- Jan. 27With so much focus on the health of the housing market, the commercial real estate arena has fallen under the radar. But the fact is that offices, hotels, apartments, malls and warehouses have, for the most part, remained an attractive investment for several years, at least as measured by standout performance of the real estate investment trusts that own and manage those properties.
Personal Finance Daily -- Feb. 7Employees of the largest mutual-fund firms were feeling awfully generous in the election year of 2004, boosting their political contributions nearly 250% from the previous presidential election cycle in 2000. But it wasn't George W. Bush or John Kerry that got them to open their wallets.
