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Gonzaga’s most surprising achievement isn’t getting to the Final Four. It’s the sizable profit its men’s basketball team scored while playing in a small conference.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he didn’t mean to promote the Lego Batman movie.

SpaceX just made history by launching the same rocket into orbital space for a second time. And the jaw-dropping news did not stop there.

BBG, one of the largest independent valuation, assessment and advisory firms in the U.S., has acquired Integra Realty Resources (IRR) affiliate offices in San Francisco and Sacramento, bolstering the Dallas-based firm’s presence in the West with its second California acquisition within a week.

The acquisition, which follows BBG’s March 24 acquisition of Los Angeles-based appraisal firm Abergel & Associates, includes a combined 32 employees in…

It’s time to update those contact managers with CoStar’s People of Note, reporting news on significant new CRE hires and promotions. This week’s issue includes the following markets: New York City, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Philadelphia, East Bay, Phoenix / Tucson, Toronto, Atlanta, Denver, Jacksonville, South Florida, Boston, Baltimore and Dallas / Ft…

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Once an overlooked niche, the student housing sector is attracting increased attention from major investors, who see the sector as offering less rental growth volatility and a recession-resistant hedge to conventional apartments.

Meanwhile, strong levels of US college enrollment and the diminished capacity for cash-strapped public universities to fund new dormitory development due to state budget cuts are creating more opportunities in the student…

High-profile politics in South Africa has slammed the country’s currency.

It worked!

U.S. debt is likely to double as a share of the economy over the next 30 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

There’s seemingly more opportunities than ever for writers in Hollywood, between movies, TV and new digital services. But if the Writers Guild of America is not able to agree to a new contract before May, it all could come to a screeching halt, nearly a decade since the union’s last strike that lasted 100 days and carried a billion-dollar price tag.

Things have looked brighter for Lululemon and its brand of luxury athletic wear.

While owners of shopping malls have been grappling with department store closings for several years, the pace of closings has recently accelerated, marking a turning point in the speed of the fundamental changes reshaping the traditional mall sector.

Chains such as Sears, Macy’s and JCPenney are no longer closing a handful of underperforming stores at a time…

It’s busy season for immigration lawyers. On April 3, people can start submitting H-1B visa petitions for the new fiscal year.

Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. (NASDAQ: BWLD) has retained restaurant and franchise investment banking firm The Cypress Group to manage the restaurant chain’s portfolio optimization initiative.

Cypress will be marketing roughly 10% of the 620 Buffalo Wild Wings company-owned restaurants as the first phase of what the Minneapolis-based company called an ongoing portfolio optimization process…

President Trump’s temporary SEC chief has already taken steps to curb the agency’s ability to go after financial crime.

Newmark Grubb Knight Frank (NGKF) is rolling out a national valuation and appraisal service to support ambitious plans for its investment-sales platform. After recruiting Cushman & Wakefield’s former global appraisal and valuation chief, John D. Busi, last summer to lead the effort, NGKF has hired four other senior valuation execs to round out a leadership team tasked with growing NGKF’s North American valuation and advisory business line…

President Donald Trump is taking aim well-paying jobs with attractive benefits at the nation’s largest employer — the federal government.

USA Hockey will field a women’s team in the upcoming world championship games — with or without the current members of the women’s national team.

More agents along the border, but a hobbled PBS. A bigger military, but less chance of getting a decent lawyer if you’re poor.

Sean Hannity is surrounded by jackasses.

A joint venture of Chicago-based student housing developer The Scion Group, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and Singapore wealth fund GIC have purchased three U.S. student housing portfolios for about $1.6 billion.

Scion Student Communities LP’s acquisitions include a total of 29 properties in three portfolios, including the closing this week of the $640 million purchase of 11 properties in university markets across the U…

Janet Yellen has a message for Americans: It’s finally safe to “feel good” about the U.S. economy.

With the quarter-point interest rate hike a done deal as of today, the Federal Reserve is signaling that the US economy is another step closer to full health after its slow recovery from the depths of the Great Recession.

In addition, today’s rate increase is not expected to be the last we see this year…

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Despite promises from people in high places, tax reform will not happen by August. In fact, it very well may not happen this year.

The outlook for industrial real estate couldn’t be better, despite uncertainty regarding potential changes in federal trade policies and the large amount of new warehouse/distribution space currently under construction.

Recent outlooks cite several sources for continued demand in the warehouse/distribution sector, including healthy-enough consumer spending, growing demand for ecommerce space, and dare we mention it, demand from the growing medical…

Mario Burgos certainly isn’t anti-immigrant. His father was born in Ecuador. His maternal grandparents immigrated from Europe.

In one of the largest office leases in Oakland on record, Blue Shield of California will move its corporate headquarters into 200,000 square feet at 601 City Center, a project finally under development by Shorenstein Properties and MetLife Inc. after being stalled for several years.

The health plan said the move aims to reduce administrative costs and provide upgraded office surrounding for about 1,200 employees…

The White House press briefing is usually a forum for reporters and the public to learn new information about the president and his administration.

The U.S. election may have awakened “animal spirits” on Wall Street, but the bears definitely didn’t get the wake-up call. They’ve been hibernating for an unusually-long period.

Add Gordmans Stores Inc. (NASDAQ: GMAN) to the growing list of department store chains throwing in the towel. The Omaha, NE-based chain filed for bankruptcy and plans to enter into an agreement with Tiger Capital Group and Great American Group to handle the liquidation sales of its store inventory and other assets…

Facebook now explicitly prohibits companies and organizations from using its services for surveillance.