Month: October 2022

The Manhattan real estate market entered the typical busy fall season in a quote-unquote buyer’s market. To many, that conjures up visions of panicked sellers hastily making fire-sale deals at enormous discounts with whatever intrepid buyers remain. Others thought that with mortgage rates above 6%, cash would be king, and with it, they would get
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In this article F Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT 2023 Ford F-150 Raptor R Ford DETROIT – Ford Motor recorded a net loss of $827 million during the third quarter, weighed down by supply chain problems and an investment in autonomous vehicle unit Argo AI. Still, the automaker narrowly beat Wall Street’s subdued expectations
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Bradley Williams “absolutely hated” his first job after graduating from college. The 28-year-old said the office environment wasn’t for him — and he quit in three months. Williams’ girlfriend, Cazzy Magennis, had just finished her degree at the University of Exeter, where they met. While their friends were starting their careers in London, Williams and
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Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, testifies during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on April 26, 2022. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images The nation’s consumer watchdog is upping its efforts to clamp down on so-called junk fees that some banks charge consumers. The Consumer
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We have lost a great truth-teller about cities, inequality, and American social and economic life. On Tuesday, after a long bout with cancer, Los Angeles writer and activist Mike Davis died at age 76. Davis was always enlightening, amusing, and oddly both apocalyptic and hopeful, even as he chronicled America’s (and the world’s) unequal urban,
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Traders on the floor of the NYSE, Oct. 21, 2022. Source: NYSE Professional stock pickers are still betting that the U.S. economy could skirt a recession, according to Bank of America analysis. Actively managed mutual funds have maintained their pro-cyclical stance with overweights in consumer discretionary and industrials, while having a sizeable underweight in consumer staples,
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nd3000 | iStock | Getty Images Despite signs of a cooling housing market, home prices are still relatively high, resulting in bigger down payments.  Over the past year, average down payments in the country’s 50 biggest metros have grown by more than 35%, according to a LendingTree report, based on 30-year fixed-rate mortgage data from
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By Rashelle Brown, Next Avenue With inflation running especially high in recent months, we’ve all felt the pinch a little more than usual. But glance back in time and you will see that life’s staples have become more expensive throughout history. It’s a trend not likely to end in our era, and a phenomenon more
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