baltimoresun.com - Money & Spending

Dream home: City girl, country boy compromise

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Baltimore County house close to shops, green space

When they became engaged last year, Ed Stone, a Perry Hall native and Kathy Merz, who lived downtown in Federal Hill, began to look for a home. They wanted a new place where they could start their life together.

All the right moves

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Michael Jackson wowed audiences with his singing and dancing, but his best performance may have been the handling of his will, which he nearly got perfect

D espite the high drama over Michael Jackson's estate, the late pop singer did many things right when it came to end-of-life planning.

Area condo sales are on the rise

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Sales of new condos in the Baltimore area are on the rise as prices drop, but the recovery still has a ways to go

P atrick Turner can tell when a prospective home buyer is probably not a Silo Point buyer.

At Work: Shreya Hessler, licensed psychologist

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Shreya Hessler, licensed psychologist, Bel Air

Age: 34

QE2 owner considers opening a floating hotel

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:44:00 -0400

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The cash-strapped Dubai owner of the QE2 is weighing plans to open the British ocean liner as a floating hotel elsewhere in the Middle East or Africa rather than in the struggling Persian Gulf sheikdom.

Investors looking to companies' 2Q revenue growth

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:31:00 -0400

NEW YORK (AP) — Investors want to see some new math in companies' quarterly reports.

Australia wants evidence from China

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:36:00 -0400

BEIJING (AP) — Australian officials said Sunday that China has not given them any evidence to support its detention of an Australian mining executive on spying charges and warned that the affair could discourage foreign companies from doing business there.