High-decibel duo: Upper St. Clair grads rock as Fortune Teller

More recently, the British duo Royal Blood caught the Fortune Teller members' attention. “It's just two dudes, but they sound so huge,” Young said. “And that inspires me so much, because I want to sound that huge with two dudes.” Back in high school, he and Orsini, on bass, served as the rhythm section
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In order to get a loan from a federally regulated lender, home buyers have to prove that they can service their uninsured mortgage at a qualifying rate of the greater of the contractual mortgage rate plus two percentage points or the five-year benchmark rate published by the Bank of Canada. An existing
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He spoke to Chanticleer soon after the HLEG delivered its final report on green financing to Valdis Dombrovskis, who is European Commission … first residential mortgage backed security where the underlying pool of securities has both green and non-green residential mortgage loans certified by the
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State-run Bank of Baroda has reduced its marginal cost of funds-based lending rates (MCLR) for tenors under one-year by 10-25 basis points. For three-months and six-months tenors, the bank has revised it's MCLR rates to 7.95 per cent and 8.15 per cent, respectively. The overnight and one month
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The practice of usury – lending money at exorbitantly high interest rates – “humiliates and kills” just like a snake by “strangling its victims,” the pope told members of an Italian association dedicated to fighting usury and loan sharking. “It is necessary to prevent it, saving people from the illness of debt
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Regulators in Australia may start unscrewing the bolts they placed on lending should the downtrend in recent home values in Australia unexpectedly accelerates. In a report in Australian Financial Review, federal treasurer Scott Morrison said the government is closely observing the residential real estate
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“CMHC will be seeking data from securitization program participants on their uninsured conventional mortgage lending,” he said. That information could result in “changes” (read, new rules) to the rulebook that approved non-federally regulated lenders—like credit unions—must abide by. Recently
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Shares of American Capital Mortgage were trading at $16.9 as of Feb. 2. Over the last 52-week period, shares are up 5.96 percent. Given that these returns are generally positive, long-term shareholders are probably happy going into this earnings release. Analyst estimates are adjusted lower for EPS
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Housing prices slid again during the first month of the new year, sliding 2.2 percent in January on a national average. Real estate brokers' association Eiendom Norge called it the weakest January in 10 years. Sales and prices often pick up after the Christmas holidays, but not this year. Average prices
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Last month we learned that small business lender, StreetShares, closed on a $23 million Series B. This got us thinking. Several other small business lenders such as Dealstruck, Bond Street, Bizfi and Able Lending have all closed up shop while StreetShares continues to thrive. We were curious to find
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A New Hampshire woman who won a $560 million Powerball jackpot last month is suing state lottery officials for the right to remain anonymous when she collects her windfall. In a civil complaint filed Jan. 29 against the New Hampshire Lottery Commission in state court, lawyers for the plaintiff, identified
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Until very recently, financial data pertaining to a customer's account information was made available only to his/her own bank. But since January 13, those rules have changed. Banks are now required to allow access to such data to a wide range of companies, upon approval by the customer.
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MIAMI (February 5, 2017) – TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank®, has named Gregory M. Santin as Senior Lender, Commercial Real Estate, based in Miami. He is responsible for developing new commercial real estate lending relationships with companies and organizations across South
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Another blow for the crypto-traders, a sizeable number of banks have disagreed to allow their customers to use their credit cards to buy cryptocurrencies. This had been triggered over the weekend when the US banks; Bank Of America, Citigroup, Jp Morgan, Capital One and Discover have banned their
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Churchill Mortgage is building the “preunderwriting” process used to give borrowers a stronger sense of preapproval into its workflow in an effort to make financed offers on homes more competitive. Having a preunderwriting approval through Churchill Mortgage's Certified Homebuyer program is “almost
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These returns are also supported by government agencies, including Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, for whom the affordable housing crisis presents a direct challenge to their mandate of supporting the U.S. multifamily sector. In fact, these agencies have recently partnered with select private sector real
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Don't believe the hype. That's the word from Westchester real estate professionals about a just-released report that says rental prices in White Plains are taking a dip. According to the Rentonomics by Apartment List report, rents in White Plains have declined 1.9 percent over the past month and are down
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MELISSA Meeks has bagged her own billionaire – after her hot felon ex dumped her for Topshop heiress Chloe Green. The estranged wife of the so-called “world's hottest felon” Jeremy Meeks is now dating Donald “DJ” Friese – the heir to a billion dollar glazing company fortune, according to sources.
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DIY Foam Fortune Cookies. Ali Fedotowsky-Manno is making some fun party decor out of craft foam. Share. Materials. Craft foam sheets (in valentine's colors); Hot Glue; Scissors; Small bowl (about 4 inches in diameter); Pen or pencil. Directions. 1. Turn your small bowl upside down on the craft foam. 2.
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With the economy strengthening and interest rates rising, banks can expect to earn higher profits as they make more loans and suffer fewer losses from defaults. Indeed, this optimistic scenario has helped send bank stocks on a tear in recent months. Now, the question is to what degree Wells Fargo will
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