One day before the start of the fiscal year, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a roughly $115 billion budget into law, after vetoing nearly $600 million in spending. The spending plan is about $3 billion less than the current year, and comes after a protracted negotiation between the House and Senate over tax cuts that delayed
Dudley Building Society launched its new branch in Central Court, Bridgnorth this summer, reversing a trend of closures in the town which has seen both Lloyds and Barclays depart Bridgnorth, to the dismay of the town’s residents. The High Street branch of Lloyds closed on May 20, around three years after the closure of Barclays
Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic buzzword—it’s a present-day battleground for competitive advantage in banking. Across the globe, countries are embracing AI at vastly different speeds, with Asia and the Middle East taking the lead in enterprise adoption, while the U.S. and UK scale up their generative AI pilots. From virtual assistants to risk
The influential financial advisor who wrote the 2021 book “The Truth about Crypto” is reportedly increasing his recommended investment allocation for crypto. CNBC reports that Ric Edelman, who previously said that allocating as much as 1% to crypto was reasonable, is now saying that financial advisors should recommend allocating between 10% and 40% to digital
This is CNBC’s live blog covering Asia-Pacific markets. Asia-Pacific markets mostly rose Monday as investors parsed details on trade negotiations and a slew of data points, including South Korea and Japan’s industrial output figures for May and China’s purchasing managers’ index readings for June. China’s manufacturing activity contracted for the third consecutive month in June,
Justin Kennedy had long envisioned more than a cornfield when he gazed at the plot of family land a half-mile from where he grew up. It was “the perfect setup” for building his dream retirement house in rural Stanton County. He planted a shelterbelt across the dirt road nearly two decades ago and hoped the
San Rafael has approved $600,000 in allocations to three nonprofits in support of their affordable housing projects in the city. The total outlay from the city’s affordable housing trust fund is $100,000 more than what staff initially recommended. The City Council agreed to kick in the extra money after hearing moving testimony from the applicants.
A crypto analyst gaining traction for timely Bitcoin calls is outlining a scenario where BTC breaks free from sideways trading and surges to new all-time highs. Pseudonymous analyst Credible tells his 468,700 followers on the social media platform X that Bitcoin appears to be following an Elliott Wave (EW) pattern where BTC consolidates in the
PORTSMOUTH — With a casino hotel on the way in Portsmouth, city leaders are using grant funding to help market the city as a destination stay in hopes of boosting tourism-related revenue. Portsmouth received two state grants totaling $42,500 to help broaden marketing efforts to areas across North Carolina and Virginia. The grants will help
See which national real-estate firms own 7,000 central Ohio rental homes A handful of national landlords have acquired thousands of central Ohio rental homes, raising concerns about their impact on neighborhoods. A handful of national real-estate firms have bought nearly 7,000 central Ohio homes to rent out. Many of the homes are in the fringes