All the Stores That Are Open on New Year's Day 2018 — And What's Closed

The end of the year is quickly approaching, which also means post-holiday sales will be starting up. For those who want to get a head start on shopping and are looking to hit the stores on New Year's Day, you're in luck. Many stores, including major retailers like Best Buy, Target, and Walmart, will be
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But as with any major technological change of the past, if handled right, the ongoing digital transformation of the high-street bank branch should lower costs, raise productivity, and provide clients with efficient and affordable services, while transforming the role of people working within the industry.
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But my job requires me to point out some nasty realities, like the fact that house prices never really recovered from the recession in most of Connecticut. Now, with 2018 upon us, scary economic stats are piling so high that even the boostiest boosters — pick your favorite economic development official
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Accern identifies positive and negative news coverage by reviewing more than twenty million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. New York Mortgage Trust earned a daily sentiment
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Our housing market is one of the fastest-growing in the nation, with a recent Standard & Poor's analysis placing us No. 2 behind Seattle. Better yet, experts contend Las Vegas housing values are not becoming overinflated like they did before the 2008 recession. The value increase isn't as steep today as
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The kingdom's banks are hoping to benefit from increased lending activity as government reforms, such as plans to privatize state-owned assets as well as the lifting from 2018 year of the ban on women driving, get under way. In a separate statement, NCB announced a cash dividend of 0.6 riyal per
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Atrium Mortgage Investment logo Atrium Mortgage Investment Corp (TSE:AI) announced a monthly dividend on Thursday, December 28th, TickerTech reports. Stockholders of record on Friday, January 12th will be given a dividend of 0.0733 per share on Friday, January 12th. This represents a $0.88
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Dawn Fortune. Updated on December 30, 2017. In the Deep Midwinter Rev. Dawn Fortune. It's been a year since the last presidential inauguration. Let's take time to consider what has changed in our lives since that day, and examine what it is that draws us together each Sunday. We will explore the
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IMPAC Mortgage logo IMPAC Mortgage Holdings, Inc (NYSEAMERICAN:IMH) major shareholder Richard H/ Pickup acquired 54,898 shares of the business's stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, December 20th. The shares were bought at an average price of $10.21 per share, with a total
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Growth in China's manufacturing sector slowed slightly in December as a punishing crackdown on air pollution and a cooling property market started to weigh on the world's second-largest economy. The figures support the view that the economy is beginning to gradually lose steam after growing by a
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Dennis Kefallinos suddenly listed 30 or so properties for sale or lease and a little birdie provided me the offering memorandum. Then DK backtracked on it, telling Crain's several weeks ago that the OM wasn't authorized by him. Josh McManus and Deb Dansby called it quits at Rock Ventures LLC.
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Ministry of Finance National Housing Directorate head Avigdor Yitzhaki sees home prices falling in 2018. He told Army Radio (Galei Tzahal), “In my opinion apartment prices will fall in 2018. I don't know by how much but they will fall. We've done a lot of things over the past three years and restored
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Singapore's 2017 growth comes at the top end of the most recent trade ministry prediction of 3 to 3.5 percent and compares with the median 3.3 percent forecast in a Bloomberg survey. The government is due to release preliminary gross domestic product figures for the fourth quarter on Jan. 2, with a
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It's the first day of the New Year and if you're hungover or tired from last night's celebrations, the last thing you'll want to do is to step into the kitchen. But don't worry — plenty of restaurants are open and ready to greet 2018 right away. Many fast food locations across the country will remain open on New
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Emmanuel Macron, France's president, speaks to journalists as he arrives at a European Union (EU) leaders summit at the Europa Building in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. Photographer: Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg. President Emmanuel Macron will meet his Turkish counterpart, Recep
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The question we most often get asked though, is what will the property market look like in the Rotorua region in 2018? An element of any answer to this question is really crystal ball gazing. There are always potential circumstances, like natural disaster, global economic conditions and governmental
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No Risk Alert Here: Before we dive into any analysis we simply note that Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (NYSE:AGM) risk is neither elevated nor depressed. We'll detail it below — but that's the lede — the option market is in a holding period with an IV30 of 38.19% versus the IV30 of the S&P
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The pollution gap has continued to widen further in 2017, according to a Bloomberg analysis. … The price of battery packs has been plummeting by about 8 percent a year, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, and electric cars are now projected to become cheaper, more reliable, and more
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BlackRock Inc. and Vanguard Group — already the world's largest money managers — are less than a decade from managing a total of $20 trillion, according to Bloomberg News calculations. Amassing that sum will likely upend the asset management industry, intensify their ownership of the largest
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WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters Breakingviews) – A rushed U.S. tax bill showers goodies on parts of corporate America. The Republican Senate plan snuck in tax breaks for oil and gas partnerships, real-estate investment trusts and other sectors. One hiccup, though, puts the research and development
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