The global financial system remains ``fragile,'' with sovereign debt
posing a risk to markets and substantial losses expected from
commercial real estate, the International Monetary Fund said.

Banks
may ne...

Key Asian markets sank lower Tuesday. Both China's Shanghai Composite
Index and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index tumbled 2.4%. The Shanghai
Composite closed at 3,019 and the Hang Seng ended the day at 20,109. In
Japan, the Nikkei 225 In...

A lawyer for the woman accused of killing Linda Stein, a former real
estate agent and punk-rock manager whose clients included the Ramones,
conceded on Monday that his client was guilty, but not of murder.

The lawyer, John C...

LONDON (Dow Jones)--BNP Paribas Real Estate, the independent
property services arm of BNP Paribas S.A. (BNP.FR), won a contract to
manage International Business Machines Corp.'s (IBM) entire property
portfolio in the U.K. and Irel...

Mexico has big ambitions. The government wants its infrastructure to
be one of the best in Latin America by 2012 and hopes to be in the top
20 countries in the world by 2030. These goals are being matched by
increased infrastructur...

NEW YORK, Jan 22 (Reuters) - China's IFM Investments Ltd's
initial public offering could suffer because of mounting fears
about a slowdown in China's booming real estate market.

IFM h...