Germany's SPD Stands for Solid Finances, Official Tells Spiegel

Germany's Social Democrats will soon take over the finance ministry for the first time in eight years. But that doesn't necessarily mean it will jettison the ministry's old habits. The party “stands for solid finances” and will not turn away from the ministry's previous goal of a balanced budget, labeled Black
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ANZ tightened its lending controls after falling victim to a mortgage fraud scheme, which the bank says may have made it more difficult for “hard working New Zealanders to obtain lending for their own homes and business”. The bank was one of three financial institutions which Auckland property
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REPOSTED DIRECTLY FROM INMAN NEWS. THIS CONTENT HAS NOT BEEN MODERATED BY WFG NATIONAL TITLE. Zillow evangelist Jay Thompson will retire and step down from his role as director of industry outreach for the online real estate company this summer, he announced in a blog post
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Thursday night was the 24th Annual F.C. Tucker Commercial State of Real Estate Presentation, and it looks like real estate is strong in the Tri-State. The event was held at the Old National Events Plaza in Evansville. Mayor Lloyd Winnecke joined tonights panel to talk about the health of real estate in the
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Banking will be shaken up – by tech giants, not fintech startups. The best fintechs now offer services to banks, which then buy them out. Banks must push the use of AI to stay relevant. Fri, Feb … The banks are gearing up against the threat of disruption. At the FinTech Festival at Fusionopolis in late 2016
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According to a recent survey by Bankrate, 63% of smartphone users use at least one financial app from either traditional banks or fintechs including 55% who have at least one mobile banking app from a full service bank and 40% who use a peer-to-peer payments app. While Millennials (64%) are more
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Arts Illuminated, the publisher of classical music magazine Limelight, is searching for a buyer for its masthead as the company teeters towards liquidation. … The title has a print circulation of 8,000 a month, with the publisher claiming about 100k unique monthly website views and a roster of over 300
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Twitter made money for the first time in its nearly 12-year history, a milestone that satisfied investors in the short term but might not resolve the company's broader problems any time soon. The company is still struggling to get people to sign up, despite the attention President Donald Trump's
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Fortune Brands Home & Security Inc. (FBHS) traded on unusually high volume on Feb. 08, as the stock lost 1.51% to close at $62.44. On the day, Fortune Brands Home & Security Inc. saw 3.56 million shares trade hands on 27,430 trades. Considering that the stock averages only a daily volume of 1.28
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10 (CNA) The local property market flashed a 'blue light' in January, pointing to contraction with an index gauging the state of the market falling from the … The housing index for January dropped 0.4 points from a month earlier to 30.2, indicating the local property market flashed a blue light, with a score
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State Street Corp boosted its holdings in RPM International by 0.4% in the 2nd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 6,557,057 shares of the specialty chemicals company's stock worth $357,688,000 after buying an additional 23,088 shares during the last quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp boosted
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UNITED NATIONS — North Korea said Friday it can't pay nearly $184,000 in dues to the United Nations because of U.N. sanctions that prevent the transfer of funds from Pyongyang. North Korea's U.N. Mission said sanctions imposed by the Security Council in early August on the Foreign Trade Bank of
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The institutional investor owned 94,606 shares of the company's stock after buying an additional 19,404 shares during the quarter. Assenagon Asset Management S.A.'s holdings in Marriott International were worth $12,841,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. A number of other large
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Noted banker Uday Kotak today said that as part of the banking fraternity he is “embarrassed” about the problem of stressed assets and letting “this grass grow under our feet”. “If you look at the last 8 to 10 years and in many ways, I am ashamed to say as a member of the banking profession… (about)
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Vanguard Group Inc. raised its stake in shares of VASCO Data Security International by 4.6% in the second quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 1,666,236 shares of the technology company's stock valued at $23,912,000 after buying an additional 72,648 shares during the period. Dimensional Fund
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It is driven by technicals, not fundamentals. The ongoing market correction doesn't reflect a worsening of economic and corporate fundamentals. Rather, it is being driven by technical factors, including the unwinding of “short-volatility” trades (more on these below), the testing of relatively new products
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As of December 31, 2016, it had homebuilding operations in three regions: West, Central and East, which were consisted of nine states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. It also operates Carefree Title Agency, Inc. (Carefree Title)
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… making it more expensive for new renters entering the market. In an analysis of 4,895 publicly available rental listings in September 2017, the report found that the average asking monthly rent was $1,829 for all units. In comparison, the Canada Mortgage And Housing Corporation (CMHC) reported the
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