finance
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Rachel joined the Journal in 2023, serving as a photo editor for the features and economics teams before transitioning to finance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Burnham sparked controversy recently when he said he would be "really concerned" should the Emirati owners walk away over the finance charges.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
More than 260 industry leaders from business, finance and law have held a meeting to discuss the role high value residents play in Jersey's economy.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Real estate has always gone in cycles, boom followed by bust, and there is no particular reason to think “this time is different,” because in finance it seldom is.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
So, after completing my graduate degree, I joined the world of high finance on Wall Street.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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Find insight on consumer finances, RBC Capital Markets, Liontrust Asset Management and more in the latest Market Talks covering financial services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
U.S. finances are stuck in a rut that alarms policymakers, but hasn’t moved them to change course.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Whether Mountbatten-Windsor will repay his brother is said to be a private matter - and there are no further details of what this might say about Andrew's personal finances.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Dismissing this argument as "absurd," Gregoire said that he "fully stood by" his approach at a time of strained public finances.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
They re concerned about their own finances, too.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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The project, financed almost entirely by Abudu's media group, mirrors the upscale lifestyle complex she launched in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, in 2019.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday proposed two new rules for crypto companies that want to facilitate the trading of leveraged, financed or margined crypto transactions, specifically.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
In the second quarter of 2026, a record 36.5% of all financed new-vehicle buyers signed a loan of 73 months — more than six years — or longer, according to Edmunds data.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
The proposals do not outline how the reforms would be financed.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
More than forty rescue missions were sent from England, at least ten of them financed by Lady Franklin, the leader’s widow.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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The changing economic landscape presents further financing opportunities for the bank, Abdulla Mubarak Al-Khalifa told Dow Jones Newswires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
"France does not have an immediate financing problem, and only 14 percent of its debt arrives at term in 2027," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Executives at the conference listed the challenges to ramping up output: power cuts, a small pool of experienced contractors, and the difficulty of securing project financing while navigating a web of U.S. sanctions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
And Brian Mulberry, chief market strategist at Zacks Investment Management, told MarketWatch that absorbing Chipotle would likely require hefty financing at a time when bond yields have risen sharply.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
He was very busy with his politics and his business, traveling constantly, financing new political campaigns, buying land and tractors, raising race horses, and speculating on the price of gold, sugar, and paper.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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