Vocally she could range from the plumminess of a duchess to the raucous expletives of the charwomen she used to meet as a footloose single girl sharing a Mayfair flat with a West End prostitute. But in person, as the journalist Gyles Brandreth recorded in his diary, that husky, purring voice is for real. On…
CHICAGO, Sept. 12, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy in the U.S. To help consumers faced with mounting medical bills avoid bankruptcy, TransUnion Healthcare announced today that it is supporting the efforts of RIP Medical Debt, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit located in metropolitan New York, but working nationally. RIP,…
New Myer chief executive John King hopes to reverse a long-term slide in earnings as early as this year by cutting back on discounting, closing clearance floors, stocking more exclusive brands and shrinking stores while improving customer service. Unveiling his long awaited turnaround plan, Mr King said his focus was on improving Myer’s bottom line…
12 September 2018 Egypt’s Ministry of Public Sector has announced that the National Cement Co (NCC) has fallen into liquidation. NCC’s kiln lines had been shutdown since 31 May 2018. Minister Hisham Tawfik announced that the company had lost EGP900bn (US$50bn) in the past year. The factory is also heavily in debt, owing EGP4.4bn…
This autumn will mark the tenth anniversary of the most spectacular bankruptcy of all times. On 15 September 2008, banking heavyweight Lehman Brothers knocked sideways by the bursting of the sub-prime mortgage bubble a year earlier, declared itself insolvent with 613 billion US dollars worth of debt. This whipped up a storm that raged through Wall…
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) wants to know if Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trumps nominee to the Supreme Court, has a gambling problem. Have you ever sought treatment for a gambling addiction? Whitehouse asks pointedly as part of a series of questions submitted this week about Kavanaughs unexplained personal debts. … Read the full article at: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brett-kavanaugh-debts-sheldon-whitehouse_us_5b982a36e4b0511db3e6e487
Setting financial goals for the short and long-term makes good fiscal sense. Photograph: Natee127/Getty Images/iStockphoto People generally teach themselves how to manage their finances as they become adults, and it seems to work well enough for a while. As you get older, finances become a lot more complex yet there is hesitation to consult anyone…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court halted insolvency proceedings against defaulters in the power, sugar, shipping and textile sectors, providing relief to borrowers hours before the deadline for referring them to insolvency court expired by staying a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) circular issued in February. Bankers said the decision will delay the process at least…