Congress Has Narrowly Averted a Government Shutdown, for Now

The U.S. Congress moved rapidly on Thursday to send President Donald Trump a short-term funding bill to avert a government shutdown this weekend, leaving fights over budget priorities and a range of other controversial issues for the coming weeks. The House of Representatives, working against a
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Justin Muzinich, a counselor to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, is being considered for nomination to be under secretary for domestic finance, according to three people familiar with the matter. Muzinich, a former Morgan Stanley banker who joined Mnuchin's team in March as a counselor, has
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Other hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of the company. Boston Advisors LLC boosted its holdings in shares of McDermott International by 14.2% during the 3rd quarter. Boston Advisors LLC now owns 750,595 shares of the oil and gas company's stock valued at $5,457,000 after buying an
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BAFTA award-winner Ben Turner is a 10-year veteran of the digital video effects (VFX) industry in Britain. The 36-year-old recently told The Australian about the surprising amount of handiwork in The Crown, which makes its highly anticipated second season debut today. “People often think VFX are only
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Ms Cullen said one of her reasons for moving to the country was the fact that mortgages in the city were just so high. “A mortgage here is manageable … it is a quarter of what it was,” she said. Ms Cullen said moving to the country was something she had thought about for a while. She said it gave her
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A team of researchers has found issues with the validation of TLS certificates for mobile banking and other security-focused applications that could allow man-in-the-middle (MITM) attackers to decrypt their traffic. Some of the apps are from high-profile financial institutions and are used by millions of
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In his think piece, Mr. Kandell specifically addressed negative comments made by another lender in an opinion article published in October by National Mortgage News, as well as those made by Senator Elizabeth Warren in her September 6th letter to Michael Bright, the Acting President and COO of
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Just a month-and-half after raising $100 million in new capital, Ori Allon, the Israeli founder and head of real estate tech company Compass, said on Thursday he nabbed another $450 million in new investment. Compass' newest investor is Japan's SoftBank Vision Fund, which put its money into the
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Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, is up for consideration by the full U.S. Senate after it received support from 16 Senate Banking Committee members Dec. 5. Bloomberg reports, “Tuesday's vote moves the bill to the full Senate, where it will need to gain approval before it can be merged with a measure from the U.S.
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Ori Allon is sure to rocket up the Financial Review Rich List after his New York startup and real estate disruptor Compass raised $US450 million ($593 million) from Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. The deal gives Compass, which combines traditional real estate brokers with cutting-edge data
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State officials in New Jersey recently announced an ambitious goal to arm 65 percent of the state's workforce with at least one postsecondary credential by 2025. That's about 15 percent more than the state's current higher-education attainment. And to get there, the New Jersey Department of Labor and
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It's a sequel that's rich in ideas, humour, and Angry Birds 2 is a physics Gamezebo's Angry Bird 2 Tips, Cheats and Strategies will help you keep your Bringing down a whole tower with a single bird Angry Birds 2 Secret Jackpot Tower of Fortune.
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CATIC is currently licensed in Connecticut, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The company is an underwriting member of the American Land Title Association (ALTA) and the North American Bar-Related Title Insurers. Its sister company, CATIC Title Insurance
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Farmer Mac has terminated President and CEO Timothy Buzby for violating company policies not related to its financial and business performance. A company press release, as well as a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, did not provide any specifics on what policies Buzby allegedly violated.
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Opposition Shadow Minister Kerrie Symmonds said he was not at all satisfied with Minister of International Business Donville Inniss' response to this week's blacklisting by the European Union (EU). In fact, Symmonds is challenging the suggestion made by Inniss that the Freundel Stuart administration
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In a year of historically low mortgage rates for many homebuyers, those with the smallest deposits have been left behind – but this could be set to change. Since last month's abolition of stamp duty for most first-time buyers, Barclays has reintroduced 95% mortgages and Yorkshire Building Society has
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Republicans' federal tax proposals have some New Yorkers reverting to a well-trodden strategy: Make everything about Manhattan. Moody's Analytics forecasted that, if enacted, the tax plans could send Manhattan home prices downward by as much as 10 percent over the next decade. Although other
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The number of women leading banks in the Baltimore area has steadily grown over the years, up from five in 2014. Yet the number of women employed in the banking field nationally remains significantly lower than the number of men — as do their salaries. Take a look below at how Baltimore's banking
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The Federal Housing Administration has updated its new schedule of loan limits for 2018, with most areas in the country set to experience an increase. The national loan limit for one-unit homes will be $294,515 in 2018, up from $275,655 this year. In high-cost areas, county-level loan limits can be as
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