How much could your household finances be squeezed in the next few years? The answer could well come down to the size of your mortgage. If you’ve borrowed a lot of money to buy your dream home, rising interest rates have the potential to curb the spending power of the middle classes much more than
The last time I was truly, painfully, bored, in the way that I remember from childhood — watching the minutes tick by as if they were hours; desperately craving stimuli other than the contemptible ones on offer; feeling an increasing urge to somehow vent the frustration physically, vocally, or preferably both — was almost exactly
Manrika Khaira regularly broadcasts live on TikTok to her following of more than half a million people. She uses the social media platform to demonstrate how she gets ready in cheerful tutorial-style videos, while marketing cheap or discounted beauty products. In one livestream, testing out some heated hair crimpers sent to her, she realises her
Chicago’s heads into 2023 budget season with a $127.9 million gap to close, offering the market a key fiscal update as the buy-side heads to town for the city’s annual investors’ conference. The shortfall unveiled by Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her finance team Wednesday marks a sharp decline from the last three years. Lightfoot came
Walt Disney defied concerns about a slowdown in the streaming industry by adding 14.4mn new subscribers to its Disney Plus service in the third quarter, pushing its total number of paying streaming customers to 221mn — slightly ahead of Netflix. But Disney reduced its long-term guidance for its total number of Disney Plus subscribers due
Two Federal Reserve officials responded to softening inflation data by saying it doesn’t change the U.S. central bank’s path toward even higher interest rates this year and next. Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari, who prior to the pandemic was the central bank’s most dovish policy maker, said Wednesday that he wants the Fed’s benchmark interest
Municipals were little changed on the day Wednesday in light trading with few deals of size pricing while the Investment Company Institute reported the largest inflows into municipal mutual funds since November. While other markets made moves following better-than-expected inflation figures, with U.S. Treasuries ending mixed and equities rallying, triple-A muni yield curves saw a
Donald Trump refused to answer questions at a deposition in a New York state probe into his businesses on Wednesday, invoking his constitutional right against self-incrimination amid deepening legal woes. Trump said in a statement that the “current administration and many prosecutors across the country have lost all moral and ethical bounds of decency”, leaving
Following a strong summer collections season, Georgia’s Department of Revenue recently announced revised revenue predictions for the fiscal year 2022 that beat the previous year by more than $6 billion. The department on July 7 reported that in the fiscal year ending June 30, Georgia had collected more than $33 billion in taxes, marking a
With the Atlantic coastline, a river and islands, Norwalk, Connecticut, has much to offer in terms of natural beauty. There are also Greek, Scottish and oyster festivals; lighthouses, museums and an aquarium. Its history runs deep. This renovated residence in the Shorehaven area of East Norwalk sits on more than an acre along a quiet
The Dallas City Council on Wednesday put a measure on the Nov. 8 ballot that would allow for the planning, financing, and construction of a replacement of its convention center, partly financed by an increase in the hotel occupancy tax. The measure, which passed the council unanimously, will let voters decide on raising the city’s
What Is a Gap? -When a stock ends the day at a certain level and then starts at a new level even though no trades took place. -Gaps are usually from one day to the next. -The reason is that something within the company or industry can change: earnings report, etc. -Weekly charts can also
Kevin Matras goes over a neutral option strategy that you put on as a credit in your account. Find out now how an Iron Condor strategy works.
Trend channels are one of those chart formations that traders love. They provide security and ample opportunity to profit from price swings in both directions, while still calmly continuing a larger up and down move (unless we have a horizontal channel that is). But are there any risks when trading a channel and how exactly
Guam Gov. Lourdes Leon Guerrero told the legislature that the territory’s finances are improving. She said her government anticipates general fund revenues will rise $50 million in fiscal year 2023, which starts Oct. 1, compared to the current fiscal year. Leon Guerrero estimates general fund revenues totalled $700.2 million in fiscal 2019, $747.2 million in
Liz Truss on Wednesday vowed to do “all that I can” to help households struggling with the cost of living crisis, in a change of tone that her Tory leadership rival Rishi Sunak described as a “major U-turn on the biggest issue facing the country”. The foreign secretary has said she favours tax cuts over
Britain’s electricity generators will face pressure from ministers to invest their “extraordinary profits” in new green energy projects, rather than paying out the windfall to shareholders. Some have made huge profits from surging electricity prices that have risen in line with the soaring cost of gas, even if the power they produce comes from renewables
Most of us agree that home ownership is the best opportunity to build wealth for most Americans. But there are situations when renting makes more sense. “When you pay rent, you are paying someone else’s mortgage,” says Brian Rugg, Chief Credit Officer at loanDepot, the Lake Forest, California-based nonbank holding company which sells mortgage and
Federal prosecutors have charged an Iranian national with plotting to assassinate John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, on US soil. The US Department of Justice said it believed 45-year-old Shahram Poursafi, a member of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards who also goes by the name Mehdi Rezayi, had attempted to arrange a “murder for
For months ministers have been insisting British households and businesses have no reason to fear the possibility of gas shortages or the lights going out this winter. But with most of the focus of the energy crisis so far on how consumers will cope with soaring energy bills, Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, has had
States could begin releasing RFPs as early as the first quarter of 2023 to build out a national public electric vehicle charging network that’s a top priority for the Biden administration. All 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico met the Aug. 1 deadline to submit an EV charging station deployment plan. That