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Forbes reported Monday that former NBA superstar Michael Jordan has failed for the 29th straight year to become the richest person in the world. – No word from Jordan’s financial…
HVIDOVRE, Denmark — At first, Eva Christiansen barely noticed the number. Her bank called to say that Ms. Christiansen, a 36-year-old entrepreneur here, had been approved for a small business…
LONDON — The Lloyds Banking Group said on Friday that it returned to a profit in 2014 as it prepared to pay its first dividend since the lender was bailed…
and never disclosed receiving a single gift on his financial disclosure form. Read the whole story at Politico
Asians have similar financial habits to whites, in terms of investing and borrowing. Both groups are more likely than blacks and Hispanics to invest in stocks and privately-owned businesses and…
On Thursday, Australia’s national carrier announced an after-tax interim profit of A$206 million (US$161 million) for the second of half of 2014. The airline group “is now targeting A$675 million…
The airline group “is now targeting A$675 million of transformation benefits in financial year 2015, up from the previous target of A$600 million,” according to a Qantas statement. The fast…
WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Wednesday peppered Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, with pointed questions about the central bank’s stimulus campaign and its responsibilities as a financial regulator….
It’s pretty hard to come up with a good argument against the White House’s Monday proposal to require brokers to act in their client’s best interest when it comes to…
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama unveiled a significant retirement security proposal with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday, announcing plans to bolster retirement accounts by curbing conflicts of interest on…
BRUSSELS — The new Greek government vowed to take a disciplined approach to budgets, spending and tax collection in the financial plan it submitted for eurozone approval, but said it…
MILFORD, Conn., Feb 23 (Reuters) – A Connecticut credit union executive was found in a car outside his office on Monday with a bomb-like device strapped to his body following…
Pro-Europeans say Britain could cut itself off from a single market of 450 million people, and jeopardize London’s position as the financial capital of Europe. – Most stock quote data…
(Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Pope Francis on Saturday and, apparently responding to his criticism of a heartless “dictatorship of the economy”, called for stronger regulation of financial…
(Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Pope Francis on Saturday and, apparently responding to his criticism of a heartless “dictatorship of the economy”, called for stronger regulation of financial…
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve is not sounding as if it is ready to raise its benchmark interest rate in June. Fed officials at their most recent policy-making meeting in…
Related: Russia + North Korea = New BFF? Otilia Dhand, a political risk analyst at Teneo Intelligence in Belgium, said she expects continued fighting in Ukraine will bring incremental increases…
Follow Us: Get the Upshot in your Inbox FEB. 17, 2015 – But the ultimate question is whether, in these particular talks, which logic will prevail. There is the short-run…
“She would be very well received,” by Wall Street, says Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at Potomac Research Group. “There’s a certain comfort level there because of Bill.” Related: Rand…
SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s research arm, Google X, is called the company’s Moonshot Factory. One reason the company picked the word “Moonshot” was to remind people to tackle big problems…
Born in 1979, Bedwei was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of onecerebral palsy is an incurable neurological disorder that affects body movement and muscle coordination but does not…
Weiss, the head of investment banking at Lazard and President Barack Obama’s pick for a top spot at the Treasury Department, was forced to withdraw his nomination last month after…
On the morning of the day Marisa Pizarro gave birth, the usual tumult reigned in her apartment in Lower Manhattan’s financial district. Her husband, a music producer known as J…
BRUSSELS — Eurozone finance ministers were gathering in an emergency session here on Wednesday, under pressure to hammer out a stopgap plan to keep Greece from running out of money…
More than half of people in the USA with significant savings fear going broke in retirement, a recent survey showed, but there are ways to live frugally to try to…
Keith McCullough is nothing if not committed. “For better or worse, I’ll die here,” he says in reference to Hedgeye Risk Management, the independent investment research firm he founded in…
I felt calm as I sat on a blue couch for my close encounter with the nascent field of financial therapy. I watched as Joel Reimer, a fit, 50-something man…
Data in massive cache of leaked secret bank account files lift lid on questionable practices at subsidiary of one of world’s biggest financial institutions Read the whole story at The…
Gerald Posner’s book God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican chronicles the secret side of the Vatican Bank, the Catholic Church’s completely independent financial institution. Part…
Corinthian’s tuition is expensive – a bachelor’s degree can cost as much as $75,000. Federal loans won’t cover such high tuition, so students often had to take out private loans….