finance
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O'Dowd, who is also the finance minister, told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme on Monday that it was not Sinn Féin who brought the Drumcree dispute "back to the table".
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
The week will also see several key meetings on the sidelines, including of G20 finance ministers, where spiking bond yields will be high on the agenda.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 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
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
Win all three races there and, Ulbrickson figured, he might just convince the people of Seattle to again finance sending all three boats to Poughkeepsie for the national championships in June.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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She says she’s now mom’s full-time caregiver: She cooks, manages her medications, drives her to appointments and handles her finances and insurance paperwork.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
With public finances under strain, Schomaker said COP17 in Armenia would focus on ways to better engage the private sector in helping close the $700-billion annual funding shortfall for the 2030 nature protection goals.
From Barron's ● 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
Overall, the survey paints a picture of a two-speed economy, where older and affluent people are thriving and persistent inflation is making everyone else felt pessimistic about their finances and the economy broadly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
But a hard look at his finances had finally convinced him that he had no other choice.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
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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
Used-car buyers who financed in the second quarter this year borrowed $27,852 on average at 11.19% over 67.9 months, bringing the monthly payment to $542.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
A growing share of that spending is financed by debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 formally dismantled the Jim Crow system of discrimination in public accommodations, employment, voting, education, and federally financed activities.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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Last week, it announced it had secured a possible $300m in financing from BC Partners Credit in order to try to move forward with the 2027 season.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Much of the money has been wasted, financing factories and apartment blocks for which there isn’t enough demand, sparking debilitating price wars, and hurting profits and wages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Debt Deals: Oracle, Broadcom and SpaceX are lining up a series of blockbuster financing deals to pay for computing hardware, part of a rush for capital as data-center build-outs race forward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 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
But though financing is the key, other elements are no less important.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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