Thursday, February 23, 2017

Liberty depicted as black woman on $100 gold coin and other top stories.

  • Liberty depicted as black woman on $100 gold coin

    Liberty depicted as black woman on $100 gold coin
    It was a connection forged eight years ago between two daughters of an outgoing president and the new first family.  Now days before they move from the home they've known for nearly a decade in which they've gone from being young children to young adults, Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush have penned a letter to Sasha and Malia Obama welcoming them to the former first children club.  In the letter, released first to Time magazine, the Bush daughters explain how they first met "on a cold Novembe..
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  • In SpiceJet deal, Boeing scores a $22 billion win in market dominated by Airbus

    In SpiceJet deal, Boeing scores a $22 billion win in market dominated by Airbus
    Boeing won a $22 billion deal from an Indian budget carrier, pulling off a feat in a single-aisle market ruled by its European rival Airbus.SpiceJet plans to buy 155 planes, of which 55 were carried over from old orders after renegotiations, the airline based in Gurgaon near New Delhi said in a statement on Friday. It also has options for 50 more, including wide-body aircraft. The commitment, the largest ever for Boeing from an Indian airline, comes at a time when both the Chicago-based planem..
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  • George Soros lost nearly $1B in weeks after Trump election

    George Soros lost nearly $1B in weeks after Trump election
    George Soros, the billionaire hedge-fund manager and liberal financier, lost nearly $1 billion after becoming bearish after Donald Trump’s election victory, The Wall Street Journal reported. The 86-year-old was cautious about the market prior to November’s election became more bearish after Trump’s win. So far, the bet was a mistake, and the stock market has risen about 9 percent over the past two months, the report said. Soros Fund Management LLC has about 250 traders and manages about $30 bil..
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  • JPMorgan Profit Rises as Bond-Trading Revenue Beats Estimates

    JPMorgan Profit Rises as Bond-Trading Revenue Beats Estimates
    JPMorgan Chase & Co. said fourth-quarter profit rose 24 percent as the biggest U.S. bank set aside less money for bad loans and bond-trading revenue increased more than analysts estimated. The most important business stories of the day. Get Bloomberg's daily newsletter. Politics The latest political news, analysis, charts, and dispatches from Washington. You will now receive t..
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  • Wall St. gains as bank earnings boost confidence

    Wall St. gains as bank earnings boost confidence
    U.S. stocks were higher in morning trading on Friday, boosted by bank stocks after better-then-expected quarterly profits from Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan, which bode well for the rest of the earnings season.Bank of America (BAC.N) jumped 2.1 percent to $23.41, their highest since the financial crisis. JPMorgan (JPM.N) surged 2.2 percent at a record high of $88.17 and Wells Fargo (WFC.N) gained 3.1 percent to $56.20.Seven of the 11 major S&P sectors were higher, with the financia..
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  • Five Ways To Defy Debt Collectors

    Five Ways To Defy Debt Collectors
    Shutterstock Debt collectors can be as aggressive as mad dogs. They just won't leave you alone and keep coming back. They may even harass you for debts you don't owe. You can fight back because you have rights under the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. You don't have to suffer abuse just because you owe money. Debt collection practices are the top complaint with watchdog agencies like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). According to Richard Cordray, executive director ..
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  • Amazon Touts Job-Creation Plans, Patching Up Rift With Trump

    Amazon Touts Job-Creation Plans, Patching Up Rift With Trump
    Amazon.com Inc. on Thursday said it plans to create more than 100,000 full-time jobs in the U.S. within the next 18 months, leveraging plans already in the works in part to patch up its contentious relationship with President-elect Donald Trump. The additional jobs would swell Amazon’s U.S. workforce to 280,000, compared with 30,000 in 2011. However, the online retail giant’s rapid growth has kneecapped traditional retailers...
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  • Delta's Small Unit Revenue Improvement Won't Offset Rising Costs Through First Half

    Delta's Small Unit Revenue Improvement Won't Offset Rising Costs Through First Half
    A woman reads a notice on the door of a closed Delta Airlines office in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Jan. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Alejandro Cegarra) Delta Airlines shares were down more than 3% at midday after executives at the No. 2 airline said that while unit revenues and travel demand are beginning to improve that improvement won’t begin to offset rising cost pressures until at least the second half of 2017. But in the early afternoon buyers seized on what they saw as an opportunity and pushed..
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  • Wells Fargo Profit Falls 5.4% as Mortgage Revenue Declines

    Wells Fargo Profit Falls 5.4% as Mortgage Revenue Declines
    Wells Fargo & Co., which lost its status as the world’s most valuable lender after a scandal in its retail bank, said profit dropped 5.4 percent as revenue from its mortgage business declined.Net income fell to $5.27 billion, or 96 cents a share, from $5.58 billion, or $1, a year earlier, the San Francisco-based company said Friday in a statement. The average estimate of 29 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg was for adjusted profit of $1 a share. Results included a 7-cent cost tied to ineffective h..
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  • Millennials are falling behind their boomer parents

    Millennials are falling behind their boomer parents
    Not so for her. Ledesma graduated from college four years ago. After moving through a series of jobs, she now earns $18,000 making pizza at Classic Slice in Milwaukee, shares a two-bedroom apartment with her boyfriend and has $33,000 in student debt. "That's not at all how life is now, that's not something that people strive for and it's not something that is even attainable, and I thought it would be at this point," Ledesma said. Her mother Cheryl Romanowski, 55, was making about $10,0..
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