Shutterstock photo (Adds Meirelles quotes, details of debt relief plan) By Anthony BoadleBRASILIA, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Brazilian Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles said cash-strapped states that sign up for a debt relief program would get three years to repay loans owed to the federal government and to private banks as long as they…
BRUSSELS (AP) Greece and its European creditors agreed Monday to resume talks on what economic reforms the country must make next in order to get the money it needs to avoid bankruptcy and a potential exit from the euro this summer. The creditors also hinted that they would temper their demands for budget cuts a…
Money seems less real now we live in a cashless society, a finance expert says. A Tauranga family could lose everything after racking up $380,000 in debt. Tauranga Budget Advisory Service manager Diane Bruin said the couple may need to go to insolvency but “had they sought help much earlier it could have changed the…
Money seems less real now we live in a cashless society, a finance expert says. A Tauranga family could lose everything after racking up $380,000 in debt. Tauranga Budget Advisory Service manager Diane Bruin said the couple may need to go to insolvency but “had they sought help much earlier it could have changed the…
University debts another hurdle for struggling first home buyers. SHOULD I go to university or buy a house? Thats the distressing question the next generation of homebuyers may have to face. Its hard enough to save the deposit for a home in many Australian cities thanks to the Molotov Cocktail of skyrocketing house prices, low…
18th February 2017, 04:40 Families with children who are in debt could be given extra help to seek advice and support under new plans being recommended to the Government. The Families with Children and Young People in Debt (Respite) Bill – put forward by Conservative MP Kelly Tolhurst – will get a second reading later…
Michael Lee at the Austinmer pools as the storm hit on Friday afternoon. More than two years after he folded his firm, the pool restoration job is not complete. Picture: Sylvia Liber Council designs for the Austinmer pool renovation were flawed and not realistically able to be completed, claims the contractor whose company went into liquidation on…
Families with children who are in debt could be given extra help to seek advice and support under new plans being recommended to the Government. The Families with Children and Young People in Debt (Respite) Bill – put forward by Conservative MP Kelly Tolhurst – will get a second reading later this month. It hopes…
When Ekhlas Ahmed, a refugee from Darfur, Sudan, first came to the United States, she didnt speak a word of English. After getting off at the wrong bus stop on her first day of school and wandering around lost for eight hours, the young girl promised herself that she would master her new language. … Read…
Advisors often like their clients, but don’t like what their clients do. Take spending habits. If you’re advising a spendthrift buried in credit-card debt, the relationship can sour if the client refuses to stick to a budget. As debt mounts, the situation can grow unmanageable. “Most people already know the things they should do, so…