SINGAPORE: It seems that Sembcorp Industries could have hit upon something last year when it announced the sale of Sembcorp Marine to effectively create two entirely separate entities that will focus on energy and marine. That move may have triggered other Singapore conglomerates to think critically about their own businesses as Keppel Corporation (Keppel Corp),…
Former Portuguese champions Belenenses have made a contract offer to Gianluigi Buffon that includes sweets, a museum pass and free lodging. Buffon said earlier this week that he is evaluating his options after confirming his departure from Juventus. If there is someone even crazier than me who contacts me and imagines something even more marvellous,…
JASON DORDAY/Stuff Adam Grace from Mngere, Auckland, managed to work his way out of debt. For Aucklander Adam Grace, being thousands and thousands of dollars of debt was a symptom of much deeper hurts in his past. Raised in poverty, Grace was a gambler, a drinker, and an angry man. I didnt have great role…
Financial research website Moneyhub has compiled the 12 ‘Sacred Rules’ of credit cards every cardholder should follow, if they don’t want to fall victim to easy, and expensive, consumer debt. OPINION: Its funny when we mention debt or hear about it in the news, we automatically seem to think it is a bad thing. Dont…
The owners of Atria Watford announced this week that a new financial restructuring plan has been agreed for the shopping centre. SGS also revealed that the restructuring enables new funding to support further investment of its four shopping centres, which includes Watford. Steve Gray, head of European Retail Asset Management at Global Mutual – the…
However, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency announced on Friday that notices to disadvantaged farmers are going out, explaining that the debt relief money is now available, and that the agency expects to start paying the Farm Service Agency direct loans in early June. Advertisement Story continues below advertisement Civil rights activists have…
Denise Dunckel | The Fayetteville Observer Across America, legislators at the state and national level have their hands full. As the COVID-19 pandemic slows our return to normalcy, policymakers and regulators are managing the continued economic fallout amid countless other issues, trying to do whats best for their constituents. In North Carolina, however, the state…
While battling advanced colon cancer, Robert Armour never wavered in his legal fight for student loan cancellation after the abrupt closure of his school, Argosy University-Schaumburg in Illinois. His effort paid off. Nearly one and a half years after suing the Education Department and former education secretary Betsy DeVos, Mr Armour succeeded. Before leaving office…