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With a flip of a switch, one New York State school figured out a way to save $2 trillion. A recent study from the Smart Lighting Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) found that if all the world's light bulbs were replaced with new, super energy...

National Restaurant Association -- "Driven by improving same-store sales and customer traffic levels as well as growing optimism among restaurant operators, the outlook for the restaurant industry improved in February. The National Restaurant Association's Restaurant Performance Index (RPI) – a...

According to Citi, Apartment Investment and Management (NYSE: AIV) is an attractive relative 2Q trading opportunity. Citi reported that it is upgrading AIV to Hold (2H) from Sell (3S) as it believes there is an attractive relative trading opportunity in AIV's shares heading into 1Q results as the...

UDR, Inc. (NYSE: UDR) today announced that the company has entered into a new “At The Market” Equity Offering Program through which it could sell up to twenty million common shares. The shares would be offered from time to time through BofA Merrill Lynch, Citi, Credit Suisse and J.P. Morgan who...

Citigroup has upgraded Apartment Investment and Management Company (NYSE: AIV) from Sell to Hold and has raised the price target from $22 to $27.50.

Analysts at Citigroup upgrade Apartment Investment and Management Co (NYSE: AIV) from “sell” to “hold.” The target price for AIV has been raised from $22 to $27.50. AIV shares gained 1.38% to close at $24.99 yesterday. More Analyst Ratings here

MAA (NYSE: MAA) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Verandas at SouthWood, a 300-unit gated apartment community located in Tallahassee, Florida. The joint venture will assume an existing loan and MAA will fund its share of the net purchase price through common stock issuances...

In a Form 4 filed earlier today, Camden Property Trust (NYSE: CPT) COO, Malcolm Stewart, reported that he sold 13,432 shares of CPT on March 24th-28th for an average price of $55.37. The transaction totaled $743,741. Mr. Stewart owns 227,580 direct shares of CPT. Source: The Washington Service

NPS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: NPSP) today reported that Nycomed, a global pharmaceutical company, headquartered in Switzerland, has submitted a Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for clearance to market teduglutide (Revestive®) as a once-daily...

Market Vectors Egypt Index ETF (NYSE: EGPT) led the decliners among the ETFs on Tuesday, with a decrease of 5.67%. EGPT closed at $16.65, and it had a volume of 392K traded shares. Powershares DB Crude Oil Double Short ETN (NYSE: DTO) lost 4.52% as crude oil traded higher. DTO closed at $44.59,...

Associated Estates Realty Corporation (NYSE: AEC) announced today that a quarterly dividend of $0.17 per share has been declared on the Company's common shares, payable May 2, 2011 to shareholders of record on April 15, 2011.

Stan Choe, AP Business Writer Stocks are mixed after a three-day rally Stocks trade mixed in morning trading, putting three-day rally at risk NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks were mixed in morning trading Tuesday following a strong three-day rally. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 2 points to 12,039....

I've spent quite a bit of time the past few months dissecting the variances between U.K. inflation and U.S. inflation figures, as reported in other posts.  While some of the cost pressures are due to the British tax system - namely the VAT (which was hiked recently) - the biggest difference is...

Citi released a report today which gives an outlook for UDR, Inc. (NYSE: UDR) in light of Citi's 2011 Global Property CEO Conference. UDR owns and manages apartment communities in the U.S. and is expected to enjoy strong growth due to an increasing number of young renters, a fractured housing...

Citi is out with its report today on BRE Properties (NYSE: BRE), maintaining Hold. In a note to clients, Citi writes, "Going forward, BRE is most concerned withboth the rate of job growth and wage growth. In addition, while higher gas prices could impact the ability to push rents, most of BRE's...