It’s easy to get excited about a new house at many times during the buying process. You’ve done the walkthrough with your real estate agent and the seller, you’ve put up money for the seller and you have a contract ready to go. But there’s one very important hurdle to clear before you should be…
After short negotiations, Qatar has agreed to buy Egyptian bonds worth $3bn, part of an aid package that will help Egypt from sinking into financial turmoil. The announcement was made after an unexpected trip to Egypt by the Qatari premier Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani, and has surprised many observers. Qatar’s bond purchase comes on…
If you just entered the real estate market as a prospective buyer or seller, you’ve probably lost track of all the real estate tips you’ve heard from friends and family. Unfortunately, many of the tips that have been passed onto you by house-hunting TV show addicts won’t be extremely useful in today’s real-world housing market. Much of…
Online businesses that want to accept payments with debit and credit cards typically do not set up their own merchant account with a bank. Rather, they work with a payment processor that itself has a merchant account.The business is then assigned a merchant ID number. Payments pass through the processor’s gateway, and are deposited in…
Are you currently looking for a real estate agent, and have had very minimal luck? Maybe you’ve met with a few different real estate agents, only to feel like they only saw you as dollar signs. Choosing the right real estate agent can be tough, but having a real estate agent that fits your wants…
The Cypriot parliament, the EU and the IMF have agreed to a €10bn bailout after a tense week of negotiations. The deal will spare depositors from a controversial levy, but will force substantial losses for large-scale depositors in two of the country’s biggest lenders. The last minute aims at preventing a collapse of the island’s…
Getting the most from your pensions and savings is, of course, very important to maximizing your retirement income. It isn’t, in fact, just the total size of these savings that are important as you enter your retirement. The way in which you withdraw these savings in a regular income is key and that is where…
It’s a pretty common childhood fantasy: playing video games as a form of homework. But that dream might just become a reality for many college freshmen enrolled in American government courses. McGraw Hill Education has developed “Government in Action,” a 3-D multiplayer computer game that takes users on a virtual journey through Congress as a…
The year 2012 began with multiple headwinds for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) markets, which raised concerns over provisions pertaining to the financial sector, corporate growth and profitability. The equity markets remained under the dark shadow of geopolitical situations which were persistent in the Middle East, especially Iran and the on going unrest across other…
First elected as Argentinian President in 2007, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner began her term riding a wave of popularity. The election wasn’t even close, with Kirchner winning 45.3 percent of the vote, over double that of her nearest rival. Her husband, the late president Néstor Kirchner, had appeared to successfully steer the country through the…
