Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Rates for U.S. 30 year mortgages dropped to the lowest level on record as the number of homeowners seeking to reduce their monthly payments soared. The average rate for a 30-year fixed loan for the week ending Jan. 19 fell to 3.88 [...]
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – There is nothing average about the new average student loan debt. The average debt of college seniors who graduated in 2010 with student loans increased 5 percent from a year earlier to $25,250. The amount is the highest level ever. The figure [...]
Product DescriptionThe students of this generation face stiffer competition than their parents in getting admission to colleges and winning scholarships. As demand for college admissions have soared, colleges and universities have seized the opportunity to raise their fees well beyond the rate of inflation. In response to this, parents have begun to pay close attention [...]
Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines (AHN) – The Employers Confederation of the Philippines rejected the $1.75 (PHP 75) daily wage increase sought by Metro Manila workers, but instead offered a paltry $0.30 (PHP 13.35) hike. ECOP President Edgardo Lacson said Wednesday at the 32nd National Conference of Employers that the country’s [...]
Friday’s payroll data set to show April jobs rise – but insufficient to bring down overall unemployment rate from March’s level of 8.8% View full post on All Stories
TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) – UBS, the Basel financial-services firm, reported that first-quarter net income fell 18%. Net income was 1.81 billion Swiss francs ($2.06 billion), or 0.47 Swiss francs a share, compared with 2.2 billion francs, or 0.58, in the year-earlier quarter. Revenue totaled 8.3 billion francs. A survey of analysts by Dow Jones Newswires [...]
In the UK, the jobless rate fell unexpectedly for the three months ending in February as the number of people in work jumped. The International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) unemployment rate index of 7.8%, versus 8% for the previous three months, came as a welcome sign to the UK government that firms are feeling more confident [...]
John Raffel – AHN Sports Correspondent Detroit, MI, United States (AHN Sports) – St. Louis forward Matt D’Agostini admits the team is basically fighting for pride and also hoping to secure roster spots for the 2011-12 season. But in Wednesday’s 10-3 shellacking over first-place Detroit at Joe Louis Arena, the Blues looked anything but like [...]
The number of Americans initially applying for unemployment aid last week rose after hitting its lowest level in nearly three years a week earlier, the U.S. Labor Department said Thursday. View full post on All Stories
The Media Line Staff Manama, Bahrain David Rosenberg – Investors in the Gulf region are getting the jitters as the turmoil in Bahrain brings closer to home the political risk enveloping the Middle East. Dubai’s stocks dropped to the lowest level in almost six months on Monday, with the index shedding 1.3 percent to 1516.43. [...]
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