Chinese Ambassador Warns of 'Trade War' Over Trump Tariffs

Chinese Ambassador Warns of 'Trade War' Over Trump Tariffs

China's ambassador to the U.S. warned Donald Trump the Asian nation would return fire on tariffs the U.S. president announced, saying the American middle class would pay the price. “We don't want a trade war,” Chinese ambassador Cui Tiankai said in a video posted to the embassy's Facebook page.
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CRE Opinion: The Art of Time Management

If you read this report, it will tell you everything you need to know about the economy, real estate trends, and politics. It's the best. Next, I post something on social media. This is an integral part of my marketing strategy. I try to post something meaningful, motivational, or funny every day. A little funny goes
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PNB to setup new monitoring system, processes for lending

PNB to setup new monitoring system, processes for lending. The bank is also actively looking to leverage benefits of emerging technology including AI and analytics, official sources said. business Updated: Mar 22, 2018 21:09 IST. Press Trust of India, New Delhi. A branch of Punjab National Bank at
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CNN Chief Jeff Zucker Calls Fox News a Propaganda Machine

Zucker spoke at the Financial Times Future of News conference two days after a former Fox military analyst quit, claiming he was ashamed at the way the network's opinion hosts were backing President Donald Trump. Zucker said that analyst, Ralph Peters, voiced what a lot of people have been thinking
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Case against Fortune woman who allegedly stole minor hockey funds to be tried in Supreme Court

GRAND BANK, NL – A Fortune woman charged for the alleged theft of funds from the United Towns Minor Hockey Association has elected to move her case to Supreme Court in Grand Bank. Michelle LeRiche, 43, is facing charges including theft, criminal breach of trust, three counts of forgery and three
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Music Industry Sees Fastest Growth in More Than 20 Years

Amazon.com Inc., Pandora Media Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s YouTube are all entering the market with paid services. Streaming, first introduced a decade ago, is rescuing record labels that had been reeling from the years-long drop in CDs. Online sales of songs and albums from iTunes failed to stop the
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How much you can earn in your first year at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and other big investment …

That's particularly true in investment banking — generally seen as the pinnacle of the industry, especially for graduates trying to get into the industry. According to a report from recruitment firm Dartmouth Partners out this week, the average first year analyst working for a major bank earns around £72,000.
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The New Starbucks Crystal Ball Frappuccino Tells Your Fortune

Knowing your fortune is worth the price of admission, but in case you're more interested in the drink itself than the novelty, know that it's on the fruity side. It's crème-based with peach flavoring and turquoise sprinkles that create a marbling effect. So, yes, it's pretty and pretty delicious, but that comes with
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Bay Area home prices keep going up: One county sets a new record

As Bay Area home prices continued to climb to vertigo-inducing heights last month, one county stood out from the rest. Santa Clara County hit a new record in February, with homes selling for a median price of $1.08 million — up 12.5 percent from January, and up 27.8 percent from the year before,
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Fair Housing's Unfinished 50-Year Journey

Each year, the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) releases an analysis of the annual Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, the most comprehensive mortgage lending report, and the only one that includes data on lending by race and ethnicity. CRL's most recent analysis found that in 2016, conventional
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Best Real Estate Deals of 2017: Economic development champions

Last year, the Philadelphia Business Journal started a new tradition as part of our Best Real Estate Deals Celebration. We honor the Economic Development Champions of Greater Philadelphia. This award is designed to honor people who have gone above and beyond to create a business-friendly
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Houston Real Estate Firm Jumps On 'Co-Working' Bandwagon

They differ from traditional offices in that freelancers or employees from different companies share the same space. Real estate firm Caldwell Companies recently opened one such place in the Cypress-Fairbanks area, called The Work Well. Its director, Miranda Hadamik, spoke with us about co-working
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Commentary: Facebook Can't Be Trusted. It's Time to Regulate It.

Using public data posted on a web site is legal. This is the bread and butter of Internet marketing companies. But according to a recent New York Times investigation, Cambridge Analytica collected data from Facebook users and their friends without consent, leaving both companies potentially liable for
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Former Cushman & Wakefield director starts new real estate company

The former senior director of office brokerage services for Cushman & Wakefield in Jacksonville has branched off from the global firm to start a new real estate company. Buddy Register left Cushman & Wakefield in February after spending nine and a half years with the company. His new company
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How Long Is Starbucks' Crystal Ball Frappuccino Available? Get This Special Fortune-Telling Drink …

On the day after the first official day of spring, many of us in the northeast experienced a major snowstorm. Sick irony, huh? I woke up on Mar. 22 to New York City streets clogged with gray, dirty slush. After an already long winter, I was displeased, to say the least. I bundled up, stuck my feet in my trusty
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Wells names new heads of mortgage finance

Wells has named Ari Kavour and Mike Llodra as co-heads of the mortgage finance group, reporting to Chris Pink, head of asset backed finance and securitization. Kavour was previously head of RMBS and mortgage trading at the firm. He joined in 2012 after servicing as co-head of collateralized .
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Local February housing markets outpace Houston region figures

Home sales across the Houston region surged in February 2018, while local neighborhoods showed mixed results; meanwhile, local home prices rose nearly across the board and outpaced greater Houston figures according to the latest report from the Houston Association of Realtors. According to the
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Freddie Mac: Mortgage Rates Held Flat This Week

Mortgage rates were more or less flat during the week ended March 22, with the average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) at 4.45%, up slightly from 4.44% the previous week, according to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey. A year ago at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged
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Chicagoland home market faces familiar obstacles in February

Limited inventory of homes for sale and increasing home prices are trends that still dominate the Chicagoland housing market, hampering home sales, according to the February 2018 sales report from RE/MAX Northern Illinois. February home sales activity dipped 2.2 percent to 5,668 units sold.
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UBS to pay $230 million over sales of shoddy mortgage bonds

Banking giant UBS will fork over $230 million to settle a New York State claim that it knowingly sold shoddy mortgage-backed securities during the run-up to the financial crisis. The settlement includes $189 million in consumer relief for New York homeowners and $41 million in cash to the state.
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