Author: InvestAdvocate

Access Bank to reward shareholders with 30Kobo dividend for year 2010 end

  ACCESS BANK PLC 22 March 2011 Audited Year Ended (December) 2010 Profit and Loss Information Turnover 10 N91.142b 09 N84.980b Profit Before Tax 10 N16.168b 09 (N3.481b) Taxation 10 (N5.100b) 09 (N920.601m) Profit After Taxation 10 N11.068b 09 (N4.402b) Balance Sheet Information Fixed Assets 10 N380.071m 09 N1.170b Treasury […]

Summary Box: Fixed mortgage rates rise this week

The Associated Press – Thu Mar 24, 2011 RATES EDGE UP: Freddie Mac said the average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage rose this week to 4.81 percent from 4.76 percent the previous week. The average rate on the 15-year fixed mortgage increased to 4.04 percent from 3.97 percent. STILL ATTRACTIVELY LOW: […]

New home sales slowest in at least a half-century

By DEREK KRAVITZ, AP Real Estate Writer – Wed Mar 23 2011 WASHINGTON – Home construction in the United States is all but coming to a halt. Americans are on track to buy fewer new homes than in any year since the government began keeping data almost a half-century ago. Sales are […]