Archive for October 2012
Insured losses from Sandy could reach $15 billion
As the East Coast begins picking up the pieces from Hurricane Sandy, insurance experts are making their best guesses as to what insured losses may total.
AIR Worldwide Corp., a catastrophe modeling firm, said late …
Read MoreCar and home loans fueling U.S. economic growth
Iowa Community college enrollment dips for second year
Enrollment at Iowa’s 15 community colleges decreased by 5.2 percent this fall, according to preliminary numbers released today by the Iowa Department of Education.
It’s the second straight enrollment decrease, following a 0.6 percent drop …
Read MoreForeclosures down in Iowa, across the country
Iowa foreclosure activity declined 0.1 percent to 2.1 percent of all outstanding home loans for the year ending Sept. 30, real estate analytics firm CoreLogic Inc. said today.
Lenders completed 3,380 foreclosures over the time …
Read MoreRedefining the American dream
Forty percent of American households rent their homes, and one-fourth of these renters have no intention of becoming homeowners, according to ApartmentList.com, a San Francisco-based apartment-finding search engine.
“The fact that a quarter of renters …
Read MoreWill Sandy raise the price of gasoline?
Concerns that superstorm Sandy may interrupt short-term oil supplies are driving up oil prices, reports MSN Money.
In Europe, those concerns pushed benchmark crude for December delivery up 65 cents to $86.33 a barrel in electronic …
Read MoreSome not-so-scary Halloween statistics
What do Census Bureau workers do for fun on Halloween?
They count things, of course. So thanks to them, here are your essential Halloween census statistics:
Sorry Mitt; that’s the way the cookie crumbles
Mitt Romney may have won the Des Moines Register’s editorial endorsement, but President Barack Obama won the Principal Financial Group’s cookie poll Tuesday.
The president beat Romney, 431-376 cookies. Employees at the company’s downtown campus voted …
Read MoreMacerich reports increase in income, mall occupancy and sales
The Macerich Co., owners of Southridge Mall in Des Moines, reported net income of $43.9 million for the quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with net income of $12.9 million a year ago.
The company, which …
Read MoreD.M. man gets big win for his new BBQ sauce
Marlando “Big Moe” Cason, won second place in the sauce category at the prestigious Jack Daniels World Championship in Lynchburg, Tenn last weekend, according to KCCI.com.
Cason, who has been competing in barbecue contest for six years, said he will begin marketing …
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