Kelly Parsons, News Journal correspondent Published 1:36 p.m. CT March 1, 2017 | Updated 22 minutes ago Buy Photo High school juniors Josh Williams, left, to right, Samir Boussarhane, and Falen McClellan created the Pensacola Debt Sharks for their International Baccalaureate community development project at Pensacola High School. The goal of the Debt Sharks is…
NORTHERN Rivers residents are starting to pay off their debts as new figures revealed less people declared bankruptcy in 2016. The latest figures from the Australian Financial Services Authority showed 35 bankrupt debtors including nine business-related and 26 non-business related insolvencies in the December quarter. Over the whole year 158 people declared bankruptcy compared with…
Donald Trump appears on track to blow out the US budget deficit and debt, in a Reagan-like fiscal loosening that could drive up global interest rates higher than anticipated. Not that stock investors seem to care. The Dow Jones Industrial Average burst through a record 21,000 points Wednesday in New York (Thursday AEDT) following Trump’s toned…
NORTHERN Rivers residents are starting to pay off their debts as new figures revealed less people declared bankruptcy in 2016. The latest figures from the Australian Financial Services Authority showed 35 bankrupt debtors including nine business-related and 26 non-business related insolvencies in the December quarter. Over the whole year 158 people declared bankruptcy compared with…
Readers’ travel tips: Travel insurance and insolvency Say goodbye to your $32,000 if you haven’t taken out the right travel insurance. Photo: iStock Cape Town cruise cancellation: Be sure your travel insurance covers insolvency. Photo: iStock exit TIP OF THE WEEK SINKING FEELING I agree with “Bitter Pills” (Tip-o-meter, January) regarding travel insurance and have…
There have been some “proper tulips” among the last 17 Transport Ministers but none of them brought Bus Éireann to the brink of insolvency, an Oireachtas Committee has heard. Transport Minister Shane Ross has repeated that it would be “absolutely wrong” of him to intervene in the “nitty gritty” of the Bus Éireann dispute, writes…
Billionaires ‘launched a campaign of abuse against Mark Holyoake and family’ Alleged threats began when their luxury property business deal turned sour Mr Holyoake’s wife Emma said she feared Christian Candy might ‘get rid’ of her husband She said three other Candy associates including Scot Young ‘died mysteriously’ Allegations are latest to emerge in £132m…
HAMISH MCNEILLY/STUFF.CO.NZ Cadbury workers, Teresa Gooch, left, and Donna Bauma, talk outside the Dunedin factory. OPINION: There has been widespread outrage expressed following the announcement by Cadbury that its landmark Dunedin factory will be closing next year. Its intention is to shift production to Australia with the likely result being that over 350 jobs will…
Theres a kind of harried, yet familiar energy at the downtown Manhattan offices of Refinery29. Young people some sporting small tattoos, piercings, hats or a combination of all three stream past the neon-green lighted sign at the entryway that bears the companys name, and into the open-plan office thats too small for the growing staff…
An Abuja company has asked the Federal High Court and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to wind up Heritage Bank and revoke its operational licence, citing what it called the banks financial insolvency. Geonel Integrated Services Limited, a security services company, said in a petition filed at the Federal High Court that Heritage Bank has been showing signs of distress and insolvency in recent…