Restaurant chain Chick-fil-A plans to open 102 new locations across the country in 2013, including 78 stand-alone, one drive thru, four in-line and two mall restaurants to go along with 17 licensed locations. The company continued to grow in 2012, increasing the number of new restaurants initially planned for the year and reporting a record-setting annual […]
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For the seventh time in 5 years, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) raised its mortgage insurance premium (MIP) schedule for FHA-insured borrowers on April 1, 2013. As of June 3, HUD revised the FHA minimum time a borrower must hold mortgage insurance and rescinded the automatic cancellation of annual MIP. FHA was a critical player
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Foot Locker announced that it will buy Runners Point Warenhandelsges, a German athletic store chain with more than 200 stores for approximately $94 million as it expands in Europe. Sears Holdings has formed a new unit to market space from Sears and Kmart stores for data centers, disaster recovery space and wireless towers. Ubiquity Critical
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