April 30, 2024
Investment

$7.5 million: Wisconsin tech hub effort seeks state investment | Economy

A bill being floated in the Legislature would alocate $7.5 million to a series of economic development projects for the biohealth industry. MADISON (WKOW) — A group of Wisconsin companies, organizations and institutions are working to secure tens of millions of dollars of federal investment in the biohealth industry from the federal

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Investment

LG Chem’s $3.2 billion investment in Clarksville the biggest in TN history | Don’t Miss This

LG Chem officials announced last week the company’s plan to invest approximately $3.2 billion to establish a new cathode manufacturing facility in Clarksville. The plant will support the electric vehicle battery value-chain in the U.S. LG Chem’s anticipated investment of approximately $3.2 billion represents the single largest announced foreign direct investment in Tennessee’s history. The

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Loans

RBI extends time to implement penal charge norms on loan accounts up to April 1

New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday granted three more months up to April 1, 2024, to banks and NBFCs to implement the modified norms for levying penal charges in loan accounts, as part of fair lending practice. In August, the central bank issued a circular on ‘Fair Lending Practice – Penal

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Mortgage

Average long-term mortgage rates dip for 9th straight week, sliding to lowest level since May | News

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate retreated for the ninth straight week to reach its lowest level since May. The average rate on a 30-year mortgage dipped to 6.61 percent from 6.67 percent last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, the rate averaged 6.42 percent. Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages,

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Finance

Resilient economy energizes investors, as financial markets end 2023 up 24%

NEW YORK (AP) — The S&P 500 closed out 2023 with a gain of more than 24% and the Dow finished near a record high, as easing inflation, a resilient economy and the prospect of lower interest rates buoyed investors, particularly in the last two months of the year. Stocks closed Friday with modest losses.

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Crypto

Cryptocurrencies gain more than half a trillion in value despite controversies

The global value of cryptocurrencies surged by more than $800bn (£631bn) in 2023 as investors continued to pile into the speculative assets despite a series of scandals, bankruptcies and tougher regulation. After losing more than half their value in the 12 months to December 2022, digital coins rebounded over the last year – with the

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Finance

Lessons from the year’s top finance books

Warren Buffett, so the legend goes, reads some 500 pages a day. While you might not make it quite that far over the festive break, we hope you get a bit of time to catch up on your favourite titles. Here, Financial News runs through some of the best books we’ve read this year. Isn’t private

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Mortgage

November pending home sales unchanged, despite lower mortgage rates

SAN ANSELMO, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 30: A “sale pending” sign is posted in front of a home for sale on November 30, 2023 in San Anselmo, California. According to a report by the National Association of Realtors, pending home sales fell 1.5 percent in October to their lowest level in 20 years. (Photo by Justin

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Crypto

MicroStrategy Bought $615 Million in Bitcoin. It Joins Coinbase in a Crypto-Stock Rally.

Coinbase Global and MicroStrategy were leading a raft of cryptocurrency-related stocks higher on Wednesday. The companies were among those being boosted by Bitcoin’s rally and MicroStrategy pouring more money into the asset. Coinbase shares were up 6.1% at $182.53. The cryptocurrency exchange is trading at its highest levels since early 2022 and has outpaced the

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Finance

Wolfgang Schaeuble, German elder statesman and finance minister during euro debt crisis, dies at 81

BERLIN — Wolfgang Schaeuble, who helped negotiate German reunification in 1990 and as finance minister was a central figure in the austerity-heavy effort to drag Europe out of its debt crisis more than two decades later, has died. He was 81. Schaeuble died at home on Tuesday evening, his family told German news agency dpa

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