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finance

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




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Sarma, a former senior government official who worked in the power and finance ministries, has called for a water audit by an independent agency.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

Ros Atkins thinks technology is dramatically shifting what we value in the worlds of friendship, culture, finance and work.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

He earned a law degree from the University of Edinburgh in 2015, followed by a master’s in law and finance from Oxford.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Real estate has always gone in cycles, boom followed by bust, and there is no particular reason to think “this time is different,” because in finance it seldom is.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

In addition to the ships themselves, Pizarro’s presence depended on the centralized political organization that enabled Spain to finance, build, staff, and equip the ships.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

U.S. finances are stuck in a rut that alarms policymakers, but hasn’t moved them to change course.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

As policymakers scramble for solutions to shore up Social Security’s finances, some are looking to the tax system to find new sources of revenue for the program.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

"The markets knew the state of public finances but they trusted a stable political system, which is now no longer the case," said Andrzej Szczepaniak, chief economist at Nomura in London.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Official inquiries by the government and ESA criticised the project's finances and management structure.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Normally on these rides back from the station his father asks questions, about his classes, about his finances, about his plans after graduation.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

The project, financed almost entirely by Abudu's media group, mirrors the upscale lifestyle complex she launched in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, in 2019.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Many of the apartments were financed with the Low Income Housing Tax Credit, a decades-old federal tax incentive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

A growing share of that spending is financed by debt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Additionally, roughly 90% of CoreWeave’s capital outlays are financed through delayed draw term loans secured directly by Nvidia hardware assets, creating a tangible collateral base for lenders.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

The shareholders who financed the risk taking had no real understanding of what the risk takers were doing, and, as the risk taking grew ever more complex, their understanding diminished.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The changing economic landscape presents further financing opportunities for the bank, Abdulla Mubarak Al-Khalifa told Dow Jones Newswires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

"France does not have an immediate financing problem, and only 14 percent of its debt arrives at term in 2027," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Ledgebrook, a Boston-headquartered AI-native specialty insurance platform, scored $200 million in primary equity financing co-led by Allianz X and Rockefeller Capital Management.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

And Brian Mulberry, chief market strategist at Zacks Investment Management, told MarketWatch that absorbing Chipotle would likely require hefty financing at a time when bond yields have risen sharply.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 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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