This is the third or fourth big fund I can recall being launched in the past month. The newest entrant is a Dutch firm, United Investment Company and SNS REAA. Canyon-Johnson also closed a $1 billion fund. Blackstone has its mammoth $10 billion...

With a handshake, Mr. Kimmel and his friend Milton Cooper started the Kimco Realty Corporation in 1960. Until the corporation went public 30 years later, the partners never saw a need to formalize their business relationship, Mr. Cooper said...

Jordan Crouch has an amusing post with step-by-step instructions for getting a construction loan in today's harrowing lending market. ...

Talbots Inc., the women's clothing chain that lost half its market value in 2007, fell the most in more than 14 years in New York trading after two banks canceled $265 million in letters of credit to the retailer. Talbots plunged $3.85, or 30...