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Tampabay.com
April 27, 2018
William March: Tom Lee frees up PAC money for Congress run, but could he use it? ... Lee filed papers Thursday disbanding the committee, without saying where the money will go. ... Mikosky said Spano will give donors pro-rated refunds of the remaining money in his campaign and committee accounts.
Quartz
April 27, 2018
Years ago, I tutored homeless women about how to manage their money. I may be an expert in optimal saving theory, but it was quickly apparent I did not have much to offer the women. Living in poverty, especially if you're homeless, requires financial skills they don't teach economists. One day, severalÃâà...
HuffPost
April 27, 2018
While we couldn't verify those claims, we aren't surprised by them. And we do know this: Many people ― even casual or non-binge drinkers ― would be shocked to figure out how much they're actually spending on alcohol. And like the two Redditors, drinking could be coming between you and your abilityÃâà...
CNBC
April 27, 2018
The head of HSBC's FX research team has said he has completely altered his outlook to back a dollar bull run in the coming weeks. "We have changed our view. We were very wishy-washy, the dollar's kind of going sideways. It worked well but we think we are now in breakout time," David Bloom toldÃâà...
CBS News
April 27, 2018
DENVER — Colorado teachers are protesting this week for higher salaries and increased money for schools, prompting questions about why the state's booming marijuana sales have not fixed the funding problems. The 2012 voter-approved constitutional amendment that allowed adults to buy marijuanaÃâà...
CNBC
April 27, 2018
The NFL draft turns some college football players into pros ... and millionaires. When newly eligible players are selected to play in the National Football League, lucrative contracts go hand-in-hand with big bonuses and a sizable benefits package, including a 401(k) plan match, disability and life insurance,Ãâà...
Entrepreneur
April 24, 2018
In 2016, $104 million was invested into esports businesses. That number more than tripled to $386 million in 2017. And at the rate money is coming in this year, we are on pace to see $1 billion dollars invested in esports businesses. The best part? Some of that money went to me. As the founder of anÃâà...
Irish Times
April 24, 2018
Money, including monthly salaries, has been disappearing from the accounts of Ulster Bank customers since the weekend prompting the bank to launch "an urgent investigation". The bank has told impacted customers, who find their accounts overdrawn as a result of the problems, that they will not be out ofÃâà...
Quartz
April 24, 2018
On Sunday, April 22, a retired health worker named Ashok Pathak went to a United Bank of India (UBI) ATM in the Subhash Nagar neighbourhood of Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, to withdraw some money. But among the notes totaling Rs4,500 that the counter dispensed was one very convincing fake Rs500Ãâà...
CNBC
April 24, 2018
Arguing about money can be a strong predictor for divorce, research has shown. To avoid spats over spending, Janine and Dom Detore — stars of CNBC's "Staten Island Hustle," who have been married for 27 years — say there is a simple mindset couples can cultivate. They would know — with seven kidsÃâà...
MarketWatch
April 24, 2018
Although there's no way to guarantee you can live like a king forever, I've learned enough in the past half-century to know that it's eminently possible to live well in retirement with only minimal (if any) risk of running out of money. How do you get to this wonderful place? A great deal of it depends on what youÃâà...
New York Times
April 24, 2018
LONDON — For more than a year, Finland has been testing the proposition that the best way to lift economic fortunes may be the simplest: Hand out money without rules or restrictions on how people use it. The experiment with so-called universal basic income has captured global attention as a potentiallyÃâà...
CNET
April 24, 2018
I'll be the first to admit I don't know much about managing money. I'm 24 and fairly new to the world of health insurance, loan payments and 401(k) savings accounts. I've yet to come to terms with how much taxes eat away at each paycheck. And despite my personal pep talks, I'm prone to splurge on fancyÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
April 16, 2018
A currency war — the use of monetary policy to devalue a currency to gain an advantage in international trade by making exports cheaper, also known as competitive ... In the 1930s, countries ditched the gold standard to lower their currencies to nudge ahead of the competition during the Great Depression.
RadioFarda
April 16, 2018
Under new government guidelines, exchange bureaus no longer have the right to buy, sell, or transfer foreign currencies, and the central bank will no longer ... drain the state's dollar reserves, as companies and people would scoop up as much as possible because of their lack of trust for the local currency.
Livemint
April 16, 2018
The Indian government reported last week that the trade deficit with the rest of the world nearly doubled in the financial year ended 31 March. The US Treasury Department said a few hours later that it would be adding India to the list of countries that it considers as potential currency manipulators. All thisÃâà...
ABC News
April 16, 2018
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday he has instructed his finance minister to begin talks with Kinder Morgan to "remove the uncertainty" hanging over the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project that would nearly triple the flow of oil from Canada's oil sands to the Pacific Coast.
CBS News
April 16, 2018
It's one of life's eternal questions: Can money buy happiness? Susan Spencer went searching for answers... In 2000, fresh out of college, Cristian Hinojosa took a juicy job as an investment banker, getting paid big bucks. "You're making six figures at 21 years old," he said. "You have a car service at yourÃâà...
CBS News
April 16, 2018
Curing your child's disease at any cost is a promise not a lot of parents are in a position to make. Tracy Smith introduces us to a couple who are determined to give it their all: From the looks of it, the McDowell family has it made. They have a beautiful home with a front lawn big enough to keep horses, on aÃâà...
Business Insider
April 16, 2018
Business Insider spoke with Dharsh ini David, economist, broadcaster, and author of "The Almighty Dollar." David talked about why the Euro hasn't challenged the Dollar as an international currency, despite being used by more people than the American currency. She also talked about how the Yuan couldÃâà...
Business Insider
April 16, 2018
"Gone are the days of noisy Brexit headlines stirring sharp – and almost sentimental rather than fundamental – knee-jerk moves in the currency," ... Higher interest rates are, broadly speaking mean higher currencies — so if the BoE does raise rates from 0.5% to 0.75% on May 3, the pound should benefit.
MarketWatch
April 14, 2018
A deluge of uncertainty from the U.S.-China trade spat to threat of U.S.-led military action in Syria is gripping currency markets, overshadowing economic fundamentals and leaving currency traders in wait-and-see mode. With so many competing narratives, discretionary trading is subdued, marketÃâà...
MarketWatch
April 4, 2018
And it has reached currency-swap agreements with dozens of foreign central banks, in the hope that the yuan will become a new global reserve asset. Meanwhile, China achieved a major milestone in 2015, when the International Monetary Fund agreed to include the yuan in the basket of currencies thatÃâà...
Project Syndicate
April 4, 2018
Last month, Donald Trump personally announced a series of import tariffs and other measures to restrict the flow of Chinese goods and capital into the United States. Clearly, Trump views China as a significant economic threat, so it may be only a matter of time before he sets his sights on the renminbi asÃâà...
MarketWatch
April 4, 2018
Lula was previously convicted on corruption and money laundering charges. Should the court rule against Lula, he could go to prison more or less immediately, effectively ending his campaign for a third term in office. The Lula ruling, which is expected later Wednesday, will likely determine the near-termÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 4, 2018
Bitcoin dropped below US$7,000 on Wednesday as the price of several major digital currencies fell. The world's largest cryptocurrency by market value fell as low as US$6,870, according to data from industry website CoinDesk, which tracks the price across a number of exchanges. Mati Greenspan, seniorÃâà...
Variety
April 4, 2018
“Dark Money” looks at how the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision has unraveled nearly a century of relatively clean politicking in Montana, clouding the Big Sky state with an influx of corporate-funded smear campaigns and legislation of dubious pedigree. It's a case study all too applicable to theÃâà...
Financial Post
April 4, 2018
“In almost every instance, that 3-year-old car is going to save you so much money it wouldn't make any financial sense” to choose new, Drury said. About 4 million vehicles are coming into the used market from leases this year, many of them cars that can be bought cheaply because buyers are moreÃâà...
Money Magazine
April 4, 2018
Someone with a significant amount of money to play with could invest in the Bitcoin Investment Trust, for example. Run by Grayscale Investments, it comes with some pricey caveats, like a 2% expense ratio and a $50,000 minimum investment. You also need to show you make at least $200,000 in income aÃâà...
MarketWatch
April 3, 2018
Money avoidance is prevalent among American families. Here's why that can have dangerous consequences for their finances. Posted April 3, 2018. Latest from SectorWatch. Play All. Only 4% of families talk regularly about money - and that's a problem. Posted April 3, 2018 Ãâ÷ How a digital wardrobe can fuel the $18 billionÃâà...
CNBC
April 3, 2018
Walmart is launching a global money transfer service called Walmart2World in a partnership with MoneyGram International. The move expands on its domestic money service, launched roughly four years ago to serve America's unbanked population. Walmart2Walmart, the U.S.-based platform, allowsÃâà...
MarketWatch
April 3, 2018
Further, Chinese assets, including its currency are subject to capital controls, which prevent money from leaving China too quickly if things go south. On top of all that, one thing that has ensured the dollar's continuous spot as the global currencies over decades and decades is that a lion's share of globalÃâà...
Refinery29
April 3, 2018
So my interest was piqued when I found out about a new study which claims the language used to speak to men and women about money is very different indeed. Starling Bank, one of the new wave of smartphone-based, millennial-focussed banks, has analyzed the difference between how male andÃâà...
Money Magazine
April 3, 2018
Now 26, Lily is working to ensure that she—and any future children she might have—will never experience poverty again. She and her husband, Jared, save $150,000 a year and project they'll become financially independent by 2029. That is, they'll have enough money so that they won't have to work.
Kiplinger's Personal Finance
April 3, 2018
To help you avoid that, let's look at three extremely common misconceptions that even people who are pretty good with money tend to believe — and then, we'll bust these money myths once and for all.
New York Times
April 2, 2018
Centra raised $32 million last summer and fall in a so-called initial coin offering, a method of fund-raising in which companies sell custom virtual currencies. The Centra team said at the time that the Centra token would give investors access to a new virtual currency exchange and a virtual currency debitÃâà...
Accounting Today
April 2, 2018
The tax implications of cryptocurrency have become increasingly important as the Internal Revenue Service and other government agencies step up their scrutiny of transactions involving bitcoin or other forms of virtual currency. Despite the fact that the IRS said everything it planned to say about the taxÃâà...
Bitcoinist
March 28, 2018
Unlike Coinbase, which acts as a more traditional cryptocurrency exchange, Uphold specializes in buying and converting different currencies, as well as safely storing them in a “cloud money vault.” The platform also allows its users to send currencies to other members internationally. Uphold claims itÃâà...
Seeking Alpha
March 28, 2018
One of the best Easter egg hunts shaping up is trying to find the elusive US dollar narrative. Outside of the dollar-yen, the market was distinctly bearish to open the week, but then the likely combination of month-end/quarter-end and Easter holidays whetted into context and the dollar tore through G-10Ãâà...
The Guardian
March 28, 2018
Tugendhat has been leading the calls on Tory benches for the British government and prosecuting authorities to clamp down on Russian money laundering and, in particular, oligarchs close to Putin with major assets in the UK. During the evidence session, Oliver Bullough, a journalist and author of booksÃâà...
The Hill (blog)
March 28, 2018
The National Rifle Association (NRA) said it has received money from foreigners in the past but denied ever using the funds for election-related purposes, NPR reported Tuesday. Federal investigators are currently looking into the role the NRA might have played in Russia's meddling in the 2016Ãâà...
BaltimoreRavens.com
March 28, 2018
Where is all their cap money already being spent? According to Spotrac.com, the Ravens currently have $9.26 million in cap space remaining, which ranks 24th most in the league. Many assume quarterback Joe Flacco takes up a chunk of the cap space, and he does with a reported $24.75 million cap hitÃâà...
Investopedia (blog)
March 28, 2018
The analysis hits the assumption at the core of bitcoin's working mechanism – bitcoin mining. (See also, How Does Bitcoin Mining Work?) The FT report's argument starts with the concept of “narrow money” - a category of money supply that includes all physical money such as coins and currency, demandÃâà...
Scientific American
March 28, 2018
Linda Kenney, a professor of microbiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, says something has to be done about the “dumbing down of science” by politicians. After reading about a group called 314 Action working to elect scientists to public office, it did not take much for KenneyÃâà...
ABC Online
March 28, 2018
So you've found “The One”, you're moving in together, and planning on saving for a house. When's the best time to mention you've got a 5k credit card debt or have a slight problem with online shopping? Negotiating money in a relationship is probably as awkward as you imagine, but it's a necessaryÃâà...
The Merkle
March 25, 2018
He commented that cryptocurrency could very easily become the go-to form of money in the future, and that banknotes and physical coins could “shrink” ... Perhaps the biggest reason for the jump comes out of Africa, where bitcoin and related virtual currencies have remained hugely popular despite severalÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 25, 2018
The trading range for the local currency is HK$7.75 to HK$7.85 per US dollar. This month its value has teetered at HK$7.8337. However, behind this dip, the city's Exchange Fund has trillions in fiscal reserves. The fund is used to buy or sell Hong Kong dollars to influence the value of the currency.
Khaleej Times
March 25, 2018
Two persons, including a woman, have been arrested by DRI officials at the Kolkata airport for allegedly trying to smuggle out foreign currency by hiding it in their body cavities, according to an official statement issued today. Acting on intelligence, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officialsÃâà...
Money Magazine
March 24, 2018
Like Santana, Sarah Maiellano, a 32-year-old living in Philadelphia who is expecting her first child in May, told MONEY the rewards program was the dominant feature that brought her to Babies “R” Us over other registry options. She registered for more expensive items with the expectation of a $344 giftÃâà...
MarketWatch
March 24, 2018
The Japanese yen has rallied 7% against the U.S. dollar, from a high of almost ÃâÃÂ¥113 to just its lowest level since November 2016, when the buck shot up following the result of the U.S. presidential election. But the yen rally could be far from over, said Ashraf Laidi, head trader and strategist at InterMarketÃâà...
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