Mortgage rates moved higher again last week, pushing buyers back to the sidelines just as the spring housing market is supposed to be heating up. Mortgage applications to purchase a home dropped 6% last week compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index. Volume was 44% lower than the
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The Oversight Board’s proposed plan of adjustment is not “patently” illegal and the judge in the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority bankruptcy said she would approve the board’s related proposed disclosure statement with minor revisions and directed the parties to engage in more mediation. Judge Laura Taylor Swain, in an oral ruling in Tuesday’s disclosure
Santa Barbara’s nickname as “the American Riviera” may sound like an overreach. But spend time driving into hillside neighborhoods where winding roads lead to balconies and patios on Spanish-style homes high above the ocean and you’ll quickly see the resemblance to the Mediterranean Sea. Nowhere is this truer than in the Riviera neighborhood. It’s one
SINGAPORE To ensure that Employment Pass (EP) applicants are not granted work passes based on fake qualifications, employers will need to provide third-party verification of their diploma and higher qualifications from Sept 1, 2023. The move coincides with the Sept 1 launch of a new points-based framework for new EP applications called Complementarity Assessment (Compass).
COVID-19 affects people differently, in terms of infection with the virus SARS-CoV-2 and mortality rates. In this Special Feature, we focus on some of the sex differences that characterize this pandemic. Share on Pinterest The data that are available so far indicate that there are significant differences between how the sexes respond to the new
Jack Dorsey-led BlockInc. SQ is scheduled to release its fourth-quarter results on Thursday after the market close. The Block Analyst: KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst Josh Beck maintained an Overweight rating and raised the price target from $90 to $100, suggesting roughly 39% upside from current levels. See Also: Best Fintech Stocks The Block Thesis: We
COMING TO A WORKSPACE NEAR YOU — Google adds client-side encryption to Gmail and Calendar. Should you care? New service occupies a middle ground between E2EE and mere server-side encryption. Dan Goodin – Mar 1, 2023 1:22 am UTC EnlargeGoogle reader comments 39 with Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on
Tax season is quickly approaching, and people are especially eager to get their refunds. Between a down market and rising prices, making sure to minimize tax refund stress and optimize returns is more important than ever. Tax season can be looked at as both an opportunity and a cause for stress. Approximately ? of Americans
Reviving X — Fast-moving Musk makes very slow progress turning Twitter into everything app Musk has said it would take three to five years to launch X, the everything app. Ashley Belanger – Mar 1, 2023 12:00 pm UTC EnlargeAurich Lawson | Stable Diffusion reader comments 78 with Share this story Share on Facebook Share
Bitcoin (BTC) miner Marathon Digital will reissue a number of previous financial statements after the United States Securities and Exchange Commission pointed out some accounting errors the firm made. According to a Feb. 27 SEC filing, Marathon will restate its unaudited Q1, Q2, and Q3 quarterly reports from both 2021 and 2022 in addition to
Municipals were steady to end a month that saw anemic supply and muni yields selling off. U.S. Treasuries were firmer out long, and equities ended down. The three-year muni-UST ratio was at 62%, the five-year at 63%, the 10-year at 66% and the 30-year at 91%, according to Refinitiv MMD’s 3 p.m. ET read. ICE
Jaguar Land Rover owner Tata Motors is demanding more than £500mn of government aid for a new battery factory in Britain, in a decision set to be “pivotal” for the future of the UK car industry. People briefed on discussions say the Indian group is close to choosing between Spain and south-west England for its
The month of February was filled with investors’ hope that an earlier-than-expected Federal Reserve policy pivot would occur, but this sentiment faded as the inflation and employment data came in hotter than expected. While the start of the month was bullish for the crypto market, Bitcoin (BTC) retraced 60% of the move from February’s low
In this article HIMS AAP DISH TGT UHS META WDAY CELH NCLH ZM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Norwegian Dawn cruise ship arriving in the French Mediterranean port of Marseille, July 27, 2021. Gerard Bottino | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Tuesday.
Maskot | Maskot | Getty Images The income and wealth gaps between people of color and white households are wide, but state-run retirement programs are attempting to help workers find parity. As many as 67% of private-industry workers had access to retirement plans in 2020, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. A significant
Black Americans represent less than 5% of residential real estate developers, largely because they can’t get equal access to capital, according to a recent report by the Urban Land Institute. Institutional capital – real estate investment trusts and private equity in particular – are the dominant players. Black developers often don’t have exposure to those
Fritz Stradling, who co-founded Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth’s public finance practice, died peacefully in his sleep on Feb. 17. He was 96. He and his fellow co-founders of Stradling’s public finance practice, John Murphy and Tom Clark, are credited with helping to give California bond law firms stature in the public finance world. “Before
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, like everyone else in the Biden White House, refuses to take any responsibility for the toxic spill disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this month following the derailment of a train that was too long and was crewed by employees who ignored repeated warnings that an axle was overheating. That became
NEW YORK – A winter storm brought the Big Apple its first inch of snow of the season. Winter Storm Timing The snow began to fall Monday around 8 p.m. in North Jersey, and changed over to rain in New York City as the overnight hours progressed. NYC weather forecast FOX 5 NY’s Raegan Medgie
With no radiator it’s not really liquid “cooling” …it’s liquid moving? — OnePlus 11 Concept brings water cooling to a phone with questionable results OnePlus hypes up “Active CryoFlux” but even its own benchmarks aren’t impressive. Ron Amadeo – Feb 27, 2023 11:24 pm UTC Enlarge / The OnePlus 11 Concept was apparently assembled by