Entering the home market for the first time can feel complicated and stressful. With changing rules, financial requirements, and shifting property values, making sense of housing choices often means spending hours sorting through listings, comparing programs, and coordinating different people. A group of new Canadian apps aims to help first-time homebuyers with these common problems,…
A Chinese factory worker was left heartbroken and financially devastated after his fiancée, who claimed to be a military officer, vanished after allegedly fleecing him and his family out of 650,000 yuan (US$91,000). The 30-something man, surnamed Ji, who had only met the woman a handful of times over an eight-year period, had been under…
A mother in China has sparked public outrage after it was revealed that she sold her two biological sons to fund tips for live-streaming hosts. The errant mother even went as far as deliberately conceiving the second child solely for the purpose of selling it. Huang, 26, is originally from Guangxi province in southern China…
The US House of Representatives has followed the Senate in voting to overturn a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule that would give the watchdog oversight of tech giants such as Apple, Google and X, that offer digital payment apps and wallets. Editorial This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team…
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The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is up +0.27%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.18%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.48%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM25 ) are up +0.32%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures… Source link
Benzinga | Detroit Free Press Wall Street remained on edge as investors adopted a cautious stance amid an increasingly uncertain economic outlook this past week. At its March meeting, the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged at 4.25%-4.50%, signaling “no rush” to adjust its monetary policy. Yet, the central bank’s latest economic projections painted a…
Last week saw markets navigate the triple witching expiration amid continued focus on trade tensions and the Federal Reserve’s latest policy projections. The S&P 500 ($SPX) (SPY) showed resilience despite lingering concerns about tariff impacts, with investors digesting NVIDIA’s latest product announcements and reassessing rate cut expectations. He… Source link
A 31-year-old man in China has spent nearly a year hiking for 3,300km from his hometown in central Hubei province to Lhasa in Tibet. However, the journey has taken its toll, transforming him to look like he is in his 50s. The man, who uses the alias Liqi on a leading social media platform, embarked…
The listed requirements for a potential girlfriend laid out by an associate professor at a prestigious university in China have gone viral, with many people describing his actions as being like “selecting an imperial concubine”. Internet users have been abuzz about the criteria for a girlfriend set by a scholar surnamed Lou from the School…