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WASHINGTON - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's decision this week to pour $300,000 into Tuesday's congressional primary to support former Ohio State wide receiver Anthony Gonzalez against state Rep. Christina Hagan means that establishment Republicans are concerned enough about the race that they have now invested more than a half a million dollars to boost Gonzalez. “I think it indicates that they're worried,” said David Cohen, a political science professor at the University of Akron.
Former pastor Mark Harris is back to challenge Robert Pittenger for the ninth Congressional District. While their respective websites can tell you where the candidates stand on issues, it's more difficult to understand "who" is funding these campaigns and how money factors into the race.
Mobile US and Sprint said Sunday they believed they could win over skeptical regulators to their $26 billion merger because it would create thousands of jobs and help the United States beat China to creating the next generation mobile network. The agreement capped four years of on-and-off talks between the third- and fourth-largest US wireless carriers, setting the stage for the creation of a company with 127 million customers that will be a more formidable competitor to the top two wireless players, Verizon Communications and AT&T.
Millennium Management LLC trimmed its holdings in shares of Engility by 63.6% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission . The firm owned 66,205 shares of the aerospace company's stock after selling 115,801 shares during the period.
26, 2016, file photo, then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton are introduced during the presidential debate at Hofstra University in... . FILE - In this June 5, 2017 photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at a fundraiser for the Elijah Cummings Youth Program in Israel in Baltimore.
Federal Home Loan Mortgage and Federal Agricultural Mortgage are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, dividends and earnings. Federal Agricultural Mortgage pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%.
Wells Fargo will pay US$1 billion to federal regulators to settle charges tied to misconduct at its mortgage and auto lending business, the latest punishment levied against the banking giant for widespread customer abuses. In a settlement announced Friday, Wells will pay US$500 million to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency , its main national bank regulator, as well as a net US$500 million to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau .
General Electric Co's quarterly profit from continuing operations more than tripled on Friday, helped by strength in its aviation and healthcare businesses. FILE PHOTO: A pedestrian walks past a General Electric facility in Medford, Massachusetts, U.S., April 20, 2017.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, who was elected weeks before the 2012 school massacre in Newtown, has made gun safety a major issue during his first term. He reported to the Federal Election Commission this week that he has $7.7 million on hand to run his re-election effort.
Barbara Bush didn't hesitate to tell people that her trademark pearl necklaces were fake. Americans liked that everything else about the snowy-haired first lady was real.
Josh Max is a name that turns up in your e-mail in-box, sometimes with a video attached. The video might be a business proposition, in the form of him performing, on a portable keyboard, a few verses he's written to the tune of Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are."
's stock had its "hold" rating reiterated by equities research analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods in a report issued on Tuesday, October 3rd. They presently have a $11.50 price objective on the financial services provider's stock.
John Thain, who was also CEO of the New York Stock Exchange and President and Chief Operating Officer of Goldman Sachs GS, is currently a member of the board of directors of Uber Technologies. Deutsche Bank AG said on Wednesday, April 4, that it had proposed four new representatives of shareholders to sit on its supervisory board, including John Thain, in a reshuffle.
While President Donald Trump continues to hammer the U.S.-Mexico border and illegal immigration, a recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas said immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, power the vast Texas economy. Trump said Monday morning that he hopes Mexico "will stop people from coming through their country and into ours, at least until Congress changes our immigration laws!" Those Central Americans Trump referred to make up 8 percent of the state's foreign-born population, the study said.
CGA Capital's Kyle Gore explains the substantial increase in asset sales and build to suit transactions with net leases. Get alerted any time new stories match your search criteria.
Last week, for the 10-year anniversary of the Bear Stearns failure, Marketplace released an hourlong interview with the key economic policymakers involved: Former Federal Reserve chair Ben S. Bernanke, George W. Bush administration treasury secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr., and former New York Federal Reserve president Timothy F. Geithner, who would later become President Barack Obama's treasury secretary. Listening to their recounting of the start of the financial crisis, I found myself unexpectedly wistful.
SoftBank Group Corp. for a $200 billion solar power project in the kingdom, calling it the single largest of its kind in the world. SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son said he envisions the project, which runs the gamut from power generation to panel and equipment manufacturing, as a way to help wean Saudi Arabia off its dependence on oil for electricity, create as many as 100,000 jobs and shave $40 billion off power costs.
In her widely watched "60 Minutes" interview, porn star Stormy Daniels explained why she accepted a $130,000 payment she says was intended to keep her silent about her sexual encounter with Donald Trump in 2006. Trump has denied the affair, through his representatives.
Bronx: While I support women running for office and voted for Hillary Clinton, I don't support Cynthia Nixon's challenge to our governor, Andrew Cuomo. At a time when we have an inexperienced, corrupt reality star in the White House who is systematically tearing down the very fabric of society, we need to have experienced state and local elected officials like Cuomo as a check against this incompetent now inhabiting the White House.
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