finance
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Nations are lagging behind a pledge to raise $200 billion a year for biodiversity by 2030 from public and private sources, including $30 billion a year in international finance for developing countries.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Ros Atkins thinks technology is dramatically shifting what we value in the worlds of friendship, culture, finance and work.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Rachel Mendelson is a photo editor on the finance team at The Wall Street Journal, where she oversees visual coverage for Wall Street, markets, cryptocurrency and personal finance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Trade linked to artificial intelligence likely continued to drive manufacturing and wholesale trade, while strength in finance helped support the services sector, they added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
To finance their arms purchases, the Allies had borrowed more than two billion dollars from American banks, a debt that would never be repaid if Germany won the war.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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A Fed survey on consumer finances finds that borrowers may be falling behind on loans or spending a larger share of their income on debt payments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
I also don’t want my sister to feel that caring for mom has wrecked her finances.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
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
"The markets knew the state of public finances but they trusted a stable political system, which is now no longer the case," said Andrzej Szczepaniak, chief economist at Nomura in London.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Lord knows, he and Perry could use them; their combined finances amounted at the moment to less than five dollars.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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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 Fed is self-financed, which means the project is financed by the central bank’s own earnings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Many of the apartments were financed with the Low Income Housing Tax Credit, a decades-old federal tax incentive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Additionally, roughly 90% of CoreWeave’s capital outlays are financed through delayed draw term loans secured directly by Nvidia hardware assets, creating a tangible collateral base for lenders.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
“They were financed by a multimillionaire and backed by many influential politicians. It was a compelling idea, to return to the past. It also appealed to a desire to preserve the spirit of Africa.”
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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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
"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
Mana, which had until this year run on grants and a convertible note from pre-seed investors, raised $10.15 million in financing, said Tyler Evans, who co-founded the company in 2023 and is its chief executive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Zambia has signed a five-year health financing agreement with the US, ending months of public dispute over whether the country was trading citizens' medical data and mineral rights for aid.
From BBC ● 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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