finance
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Appliance maker SharkNinja is building a tool to allow its finance team to monitor profitability in real time, potentially shaving weeks off the cumbersome process of building a forecast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Anne Stafford, professor of accounting and finance, at the University of Manchester, said the deal struck with Consort "represents a case of too little, too late".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
“Beta” is a technical term used by portfolio managers and academics in the field of finance.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
In recent months, the fund hired more experienced executives to run areas such as compliance, investor relations and finance, including Sven Khatri, a former treasury researcher at Citadel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
She worked in finance, for a company called Cantor Fitzgerald, and her dad was a math teacher, so he was interviewing at schools in the area.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
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In the podcast, he praised Farage's media skills but said he had not dealt well with questions over his personal finances and needed to be better prepared.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
But his PTI party made little headway improving Pakistan's finances, with galloping inflation, crippling debt and a feeble rupee undermining economic reform.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
“Women in this country are rip-roaring mad about the price hikes that they’re absorbing. They’re trying to manage household finances and budgeting. They’re trying to feed their kids healthy food,” Owens said.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
Higher borrowing costs add pressure to public finances as debt servicing already exceeds defense spending, they noted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Garfield pledged to use his congressional experience with the country's finances to keep the economy strong and to prevent wasteful government spending.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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You did two things with this special that were really important — you financed it yourself and you also shot it in the Twin Cities, where you live currently.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Dealertrack data showed 57% of auto loans started in July had an amount financed at signing that was above the vehicle’s value, according to Gregory.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
In the beginning, this new movement was largely financed by a pair of Los Angeles oil magnates.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
The mini-bubbles of recent years haven’t crushed growth because they haven’t, mostly, been financed with debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
He financed him for two weeks and at the end of that time Gay was in jail on his wife’s charge and he never did go for turtles.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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“Wellpointe will also support the financing with its own capital in lieu of any direct subsidy from the city of Los Angeles,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
It has discussed providing financing for OpenAI’s purchase of its chips for the campus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Additionally, Nvidia will invest $1.5 billion into SB Energy, though the company preemptively pushed back on critiques about so-called circular financing, which has fueled fears about an AI bubble that will eventually burst.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
The Times has reported he tapped the insurers he owned for financing, a deal that was later vetted by state insurance regulators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 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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