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finance

[fi-nans, fahy-nans] / fɪˈnæns, ˈfaɪ næns /




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Trump officials are also planning to finance at least one organization to research crime and atrocities against minority populations in South Africa.

From Salon Jul. 21, 2026

Here are a few rules of life — and finance.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

Behavioral finance has a name for this: loss aversion.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

That figure, finance chief Hilary Maxson told analysts last month, “provides exceptional visibility into our future revenue growth, all supported by long-term contractual customer commitments.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

If I pay the whole amount before the due date, you will refund the unearned portion of the finance charge.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

However, she added: "Overall, there's no escaping the fact that the public finances are fragile and that there is limited scope for extra borrowing."

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

Yields on British gilts rose on Monday after comments by new Prime Minister Andy Burnham about public finances worried bond investors.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

Ortberg said getting Boeing’s finances in order will take another couple of years, and delivering existing orders is the main challenge.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

One younger person asked for help handling the finances of his grandparent, which fell to him because the generation above him doesn’t get along and couldn’t come to a consensus on any financial matters.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

She didn’t ask me a lot of questions, said we could work out the finances later, which was really nice of her.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

Unicef claims the interim government, under Muhammad Yunus, delayed ordering vaccines last year, opting instead to consider new vendors and restructure how the purchases were financed.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

It did so while building a bitcoin stash worth more than $50 billion financed with sales of equity and debt securities.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

Storage units have been financed by the UN, to allow harvests to be kept and sold when the market improves, and some of the women have received better seeds.

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

Bonda financed the project through a nonprofit she had founded years earlier, and toward the end of the 2025 school year, the students took up the challenge.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 27, 2026

Farmer suspected the root cause of this growing problem stemmed from decades back—long before Peru adopted the model WHO program in 1991—when drug-resistant strains were spawned by inadequately financed and unsupervised treatment.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Another developer said current approval rates have increased the financing costs of a £100 million project by £5 million.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

You could reach a middle ground by financing the home purchase with a mortgage now and gradually withdrawing or converting IRA funds over time in a tax-efficient manner.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

The firm warned in its annual report it needed to secure fresh financing to stay afloat after taking a £55m hit from outages over the winter.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

As a sign of investor confidence, Ivory Coast last week secured in July $80 billion in international public financing -- four times more than expected -- for its 2026–2030 National Development Plan.

From Barron's Jul. 20, 2026

We spent our time, significantly, between the three- block section on Auburn Street where Negro financing and industry controls some eighty million dollars, and the section of the six Negro colleges.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin




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