ProLogis (PLD), one of the leading global providers of distribution facilities, has recently signed an agreement with Marks & Spencer, a premier retailer in the U.K., to lease about 382,000 square feet of space in the country. The leased facility is located at ProLogis Park Store in Stoke-on-Trent city, which is approximately an hour from the Birmingham city center. The site has easy access to the highways, and offers better flexibility and efficiency for the supply chain operations of Marks & Spencer. ProLogis owns and manages interests in over 2,500 distribution facilities, service offices, and properties spanning 475 million square feet (including properties under development) of space. As of Jun 30, 2009, the company had 200.5 million square feet of direct-owned industrial properties -- 81.5% of which was located in North America, 14.2% in Europe, and 4.3% in Asia. With approximately 18.5 million square feet ...

Expect more pain in the housing market next year, says Don Miller. Rising unemployment will keep the foreclosures coming. And as the backlog of inventories swells, Don says homebuilders still look ripe for shorting in this environment.

This from Money Morning:

The U.S. housing market is already being pounded by the “perfect storm.” And the outlook for the New Year is for the stormy weather to continue – and probably to get worse.

As if a locked-up credit market and tidal waves of foreclosures weren’t already enough, we’re now watching unemployment climb and consumer confidence plunge.

But even when the housing market is taking on water, there are ways to stay afloat. Indeed, investors nimble enough to maneuver can even make money.

The watchword on this market, though, is caution.  If an investor decides to test the waters, beware of the extraordinary financial undertow.

Here’s a look at what’s happening now, and

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SkyPostal Networks Incorporated, formerly known as Omega United Incorporated, is a large private mail network in some emerging areas of the world. SykPostal started off delivering exclusively to the Latin America – Caribbean region, but has expanded further into North America and Europe as well. Although it is still growing and developing as a company, it has some key distinctions and advantages over its established competitors such as UPS, Federal Express and DHL.

SkyPostal has found a niche in the market for delivery in often difficult locations that the larger companies consider undesirable areas. They feature the ability to deliver in areas that are hard to access, and in some cases not even addressable or on the map. In these situations, SkyPostal is the only reliable delivery option, and especially for the delivery of periodicals and advertisements, SkyPostal can truly take packages

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