April 20, 2024
Mortgage

Renter Considers Staying After Seeing Mortgage Payments

An internet user has sparked discussion after claiming that she’s considering staying in her rented property after observing a spike in mortgage payments. In a video with over 229,000 views as of Sunday, TikTok user Lexxy (@theycallme_lexxy) writes, “Me seeing everyone post that their mortgage payment went up and me not knowing that was even

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Investors

Singapore, Indonesia await start-up investors’ return, as Malaysia eyes regional launch pad status

“Because of the more challenging investment environment, investors are becoming more selective and investing in companies that are past the ideation stage,” said Lawrence Loh, a professor at the National University of Singapore Business School. Who is Truong My Lan? From market stall to Vietnam’s biggest fraud case Singapore – home to about 4,000 tech

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Finance

Why China’s options in response to a TikTok ban are limited

Chinese officials decried the lack of “fairness” in the US last week following the swift passage of a House bill that called for Chinese company ByteDance to divest its popular social media app TikTok. A foreign ministry spokesperson for China accused the US of using national security as a guise to “willfully suppress other countries’

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Investors

ByteDance investors could win in TikTok sale says US lawmaker amid pressure to ban app over China espionage concerns

Investors in TikTok’s Chinese parent company stand to benefit if it sold the app because divestment would remove a source of uncertainty, a Republican lawmaker said. “It would be in the financial interest of ByteDance’s investors to effectuate a forced sale,” congressman Mike Gallagher, who spearheaded a House-passed bill aimed at making the company divest

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Finance

This week in Bidenomics: The TikTok head fake

If you want to see Joe Biden having fun, check out his presidential campaign’s TikTok account. The account’s avatar is “Dark Brandon,” Biden as a superhero mockup with laser-beam eyes. In short videos, Biden and his surrogates troll Donald Trump using images that make the former president look overweight, sweaty, and pallid. Other clips show

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Investors

How Will Chinese Investors Navigate Indonesia’s Post-election Risks? – The Diplomat

Over the past ten years, China has emerged as a significant foreign investor in Indonesia. Between 2019 and 2022 alone, according to data from the Ministry of Investment, Chinese companies invested $20.9 billion across 9,080 projects in the country. Chinese investments in Indonesia can be categorized into two distinct groups. The first are those of

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Finance

TikTok is full of budgeting and other financial tips. Can they boost your financial IQ?

New viral trend opens discussion on financial literacy Younger U.S. adults are flocking to social media for advice on how to handle their money, seeking and sharing information on a range of personal finance topics, or sometimes just commiserating about the kind of financial challenges Gen-Zers and millennials face. On TikTok, videos from content creators

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