Facebook Stock Heading Toward Worst Month in Over Four Years

Facebook Stock Heading Toward Worst Month in Over Four Years

The stock fell 1.4 percent to $157.14 at 2:35 p.m. Monday in New York, bucking the broader positive direction of the markets. Earlier … Bloomberg reported last week that the FTC is looking into whether Facebook violated terms of a 2011 consent decree over its handing of user data that was transferred to
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Touchstone Bank names Mark A. Debes as Chief Banking Officer

MCKENNEY, Va., March 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Touchstone Bank (OTC Pink: TSBA) is pleased to announce that Mark A. Debes has been hired as Chief Banking Officer, filling a position that was previously served by Ellen Allen. Mr. Debes has over 29 years of banking experience with a majority of
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Sydney property boom blows poor towards public housing

Acclivitous property prices are pushing rents up with more people then joining a decade-long wait for public housing in a queue that stretches past 55,000 people. The public housing system is so strained that fewer people at risk or actually homeless were given permanent shelter recently than five years
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A Sweet Future From Starbucks

Forget about Ouija boards, palm readers, fortune tellers and that nifty horoscope app that has just about predicted everything that's been happening to you since downloading it. Starbucks released its Crystal Ball Frappuccino this past Thursday just in time for Mercury in retrograde — or the beginning of
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Independent mortgage banks see production profitability plummet in Q4

Production profitability among independent mortgage banks and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks dropped in the fourth quarter from the third quarter as overall volume decreased and production expenses grew, according to the Quarterly Mortgage Bankers Performance Report released by the
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Rachel Riley net worth: Countdown presenter has THIS many millions in the bank

RACHEL RILEY net worth: The Countdown presenter and mathematician is said to have a considerable sum, but how many millions does she have to her name? She is currently dating Pasha Kovalev, whom she met while appearing on Strictly in 2013. By Francesca Specter. PUBLISHED: PUBLISHED:
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Bank of America Fined for Fraudulent 'Masking' Scheme

The New York Attorney General fined Bank of America (BAC) $42 million due to a fraudulent “masking” scheme in the bank's electronic trading division. The bank misled customers by saying that it was executing their orders in-house. Instead, the bank routed the orders to electronic liquidity providers like
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White House Says It's Investigating $500 Million in Loans to Jared Kushner's Real Estate Company

White House Says It's Investigating $500 Million in Loans to Jared Kushner's Real Estate Company … Kushner's White House meetings with executives from Apollo Global Management and Citigroup and the subsequent $184 million and $325 million loans (respectively) Kushner's real estate company,
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Live in a drainpipe? Quirky ideas to solve Hong Kong's housing crisis

HONG KONG (NYTIMES) – For eight years in a row, an international survey of nearly 300 cities has named Hong Kong the world's least affordable housing market. It is not hard to see why. Located on a group of hilly islands and a corner of the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong has always been short of
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Insider Buying: Quantum International Income Corp (CVE:QIC) Director Purchases 39500 Shares …

Quantum International Income logo Quantum International Income Corp (CVE:QIC) Director Peter James Shippen acquired 39,500 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Wednesday, February 28th. The stock was bought at an average cost of C$0.69 per share, for a total transaction of
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Novartis CEO Aims to Double China Sales on Faster Drug Approvals

While it has lagged behind the U.S. and other developed markets on medical innovation, China has said it wants to build homegrown champions in the health-care industry. The race to introduce new drugs in China is intensifying as giants such as Novartis face rapidly growing local competition, even in
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Citizens National Bank Announces Four New Officers and Promotions of four Current Officers

Bennett began her banking career while attending Bangs High School at age 17. She has over twenty years total experience in the banking industry. She has proven to be an asset as she has worked in various positions such as bookkeeping, as a teller and as a supervisor. Bennet is married to Jason
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'Human smugglers are making a fortune' -Deputy commissioner appeals to public for info

'Human smugglers are making a fortune' -Deputy commissioner appeals to public for info … He said that the facilitators of these illegal actions are making a “fortune” on human smuggling, and causing untold misery to the hapless immigrants who are encouraged to break the laws of the Turks and Caicos
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At Least 10 European Countries Will Take Action: Russia Update

At least 10 European nations are taking action. Meanwhile President Donald Trump is preparing to kick out dozens of Russian diplomats. Russia is poised to respond in kind. Last week EU leaders declared in a statement that it was “highly likely” there was “no plausible alternative explanation” other
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UK housing crisis: Influx of foreign cash boosted average property prices by a quarter, research finds

Billions of pounds flowing into the UK property market through foreign companies has pumped up house price growth by more than a quarter, according to new research. Average prices across England and Wales rocketed from £70,000 in 1999 to £215,000 in 2014 while they would have risen to
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Investors Title (ITIC) Position Boosted by Wells Fargo & Company MN

Investors Title logo Wells Fargo & Company MN lifted its holdings in shares of Investors Title (NASDAQ:ITIC) by 5.5% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 37,173 shares of the insurance
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JPMorgan Brings Amazon's Alexa to Wall Street Trading Floors

It's a request that JPMorgan Chase & Co. institutional clients can now get quickly answered through Amazon.com Inc.'s ubiquitous voice-activated assistant. The bank and the e-commerce giant have partnered to provide JPMorgan's Wall Street users with another way to access its research. Alexa is able
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Accord launches online product transfers

The intermediary lender has simplified its process for brokers to speed up arranging a product transfer and enable access to a client's offer, which is valid for 90 days. The new paperless process will assist brokers to get a lending decision, and access all the relevant documentation, whilst they are with
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Black Lung Is a Growing Problem in Appalachia

Black lung, the condition forever linked to the mining industry, has been steadily creeping upward since a low in the 1990s—and it's increasingly appearing in the states where the practice persists, including eastern Kentucky, western Virginia, and southern West Virginia, according to a newspaper report
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How Will The Smartphone of the Future Impact Banking?

The smartphone of the future will have “invisible innovations” including 5G connectivity, AI capabilities, machine-learning chips and processing power far beyond phones today. These devices will increasingly be used to authenticate access to physical and digital environments including homes, stores,
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