finance
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These floating-rate loans are sometimes used to finance risky purchases such as a property that needs to be renovated before it can be fully leased.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Fouzi Lekjaa, head of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation and a senior politician who works in the finance ministry, has emerged as the kingdom's newest political sensation - and a definite heavyweight.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
This is an embarrassing admission, considering I write about personal finance for a living.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
The company’s bankers have lined up nearly $80 billion in debt to finance the merger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
She worked in finance, for a company called Cantor Fitzgerald, and her dad was a math teacher, so he was interviewing at schools in the area.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
I promised I would use Don’t Short Yourself to be vulnerable about my own finances, so let’s rip the Band-Aid off: I have racked up $7,500 in credit-card debt.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Agents within Muse can book doctor’s appointments, buy products, manage finances, send emails and do any number of other things on users’ behalf.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Instead, Van Boening told me to think about my finances as an “order of operations.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
The British DJ breaks down his tour finances and reveals the realities of touring as an independent artist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
The only times they argued were when she tried to look into their finances.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
The siphoned funds financed luxury real estate, a $250 million superyacht and the Hollywood film “The Wolf of Wall Street,” according to the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Kremlev is the head of the International Boxing Association, a scandal-plagued sports group that has been financed by the Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
The building was bought by Kingswood Homes in 2025 and the developer has submitted plans to Wigan Council under which the hall's restoration would be financed by building new homes.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Most of the blame for that lies at the feet of the 9/11 terrorists and those who supported and financed them.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
Lady Jane Franklin, Franklin’s wealthy and determined wife, instigated and even financed several of the searches.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
It provides funding that enables financing on everything from credit cards to buy-now pay-later loans to financing for Harley-Davidson motorcycles that are sold at dealerships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
A poorly funded HOA can leave homeowners facing higher dues, special assessments, deferred maintenance and, in the most extreme cases, difficulty obtaining financing when they want to sell.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
US prosecutors allege that the planning and financing of Moise's killing was orchestrated from Florida, as well as the Dominican Republic and Haiti itself.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Bloomberg earlier reported some details of Manus’s latest financing round.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
But though financing is the key, other elements are no less important.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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