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Kids love dinosaurs. These larger-than-life, amazing creatures that existed some 66 million years ago continue to fascinate both children and adults. Just think about how dinosaurs are still prevalent in modern popular culture – the blockbuster Jurassic Park franchise, Toy Story’s sweet Rex, and beloved Barney. Not to mention the myriad dinosaur exhibits that remain highly popular attractions at science and natural history museums around the world. Sometimes, we hear defined benefit (DB) pensions compared to dinosaurs. Like dinosaurs, pension plans are fascinating, large, and strong. They are a reliable source of retirement income and remain extremely popular among workers…
Our goal here at Credible Operations, Inc., NMLS Number 1681276, referred to as “Credible” below, is to give you the tools and confidence you need to improve your finances. Although we do promote products from our partner lenders who compensate us for our services, all opinions are our own. The interest rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is 6.875% as of May 22, which is unchanged from yesterday. Additionally, the interest rate on a 15-year fixed-rate mortgage is 6.000%, which is 0.010 percentage points higher than yesterday. With mortgage rates changing daily, it’s a good idea to check today’s rate…
Most mornings, Jacob Heitmann wakes up, eats breakfast and heads to his family’s computer in the basement to see if his 3D-printing business received any orders.If so, he pulls up the design someone ordered — his favorite is a rainbow plastic skeleton — and puts his 3D printer to work. Most prints take at least two hours to create, so the machine works while Heitmann heads to his fourth-grade classes, the 10-year-old from Indiana says.Since January, Heitmann has brought in more than $1,700 in revenue selling 3D printed toys to his classmates, on his website and from his Etsy shop,…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: GameStop — Shares jumped nearly 23% following the video game retailer’s announcement on Friday that it made about $933 million from a stock sale. Gambling stocks — DraftKings and U.S.-traded shares of FanDuel parent Flutter Entertainment shares fell 10% and 7%, respectively. Illinois Senate approved the state’s budget over the weekend, which includes a measure that would raise taxes on sports betting, implementing a progressive tax rate for sports-betting companies based on their revenue. U.S. Cellular — Shares added 7% after the telecom company announced T-Mobile will acquire its wireless operations…
Ryan Salame, the former co-CEO of FTX’s Bahamian subsidiary and a top lieutenant to the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange’s founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, was sentenced on Tuesday to 90 months in prison, U.S. federal prosecutors said on Tuesday. Salame pleaded guilty in September to making tens of millions of dollars in unlawful campaign donations to boost causes supported by his boss. Bankman-Fried himself was sentenced earlier this year to 25 years in prison for stealing $8 billion from FTX customers. A jury found him guilty in November on seven fraud and conspiracy counts stemming from FTX’s 2022 collapse, which prosecutors have called one of the biggest financial…
Last updated: May 28, 2024 13:12 EDT | 3 min read SHIB has recovered after a small dip this morning, with the Shiba Inu price reaching $0.00002546 again and posting a very slight 0.1% loss in 24 hours.The meme token is also down by 0.4% in a week, but up by 8% in a fortnight and by 3% in a month.These are modest percentages, yet SHIB has actually gained by 188% in a year, with yesterday also revealing data which shows that one whale has made a 419x gain with SHIB across three years.This highlights how SHIB continues to make…
Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S. (NYSE:TKC) Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call May 27, 2024 1:00 PM ET Company Participants Ozlem Yardim – Investor Relations and Corporate Finance DirectorAli Taha Koc – Chief Executive OfficerKamil Kalyon – Chief Financial Officer Conference Call Participants Tiron Cesar – Bank of AmericaIgnebekçili Murat – HSBCDemirtas Cemal – Ata InvestMandaci Ece – UNLU Securities Operator Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. I’m Vasilious, your chorus call operator. Welcome and thank you for joining the Turkcell’s Conference Call and Live Webcast to present and discuss the Turkcell’s First Quarter 2024 Financial Results. All participants will…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The writers are the president of France and the chancellor of GermanyIn a few weeks, we Europeans will start setting out our agenda for the next term in the EU. Looking back at the challenges over the last five years — be it the pandemic, the ongoing Russian war of aggression against Ukraine or increasing geopolitical shifts — it is clear: Europe is experiencing its Zeitenwende. We can’t take for granted the foundations on which we have built our European way of…
President Joe Biden on Monday commemorated Memorial Day during remarks at Arlington National Cemetery, where he marked the solemn and personal occasion by thanking those killed while serving their country in the name of democracy around the world. “Freedom has never been guaranteed – every generation has to earn it, fight for it, defend it in battle between autocracy and democracy, between the greed of a few and the rights of many. It matters, our democracy is more than just a system of government. It’s the very soul of America,” Biden told the crowd gathered for his annual Memorial Day…
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) changed its deposit insurance coverage for some accounts effective April 1, 2024. The basic insurance limit of $250,000 per account still holds and most types of accounts aren’t affected. The changes affect accounts of trusts and effectively reduce the insured amount for some trust bank accounts. The FDIC said the changes are intended primarily to streamline the coverage rules and make them easier for both bankers and customers to understand. The maximum insured amount for a trust is now $1.25 million per trust owner per insured depository institution. The general rule that a trust…
