Finance

Companies often use leverage to fund expansion projects without relinquishing any company ownership.  Jacek Dylag via Unsplash; Canva What Is Financial Leverage? In business, financial leverage is the use of borrowed capital—usually in the form of corporate bonds or loans—to finance operations in order to generate income. In order to grow in value, companies need …

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The working group weighed in on the side of the Finance ministry in a call to regulate, not ban crypto. 1538 Total views 17 Total shares Amid the ongoing discussion between the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) and the nation’s Finance Ministry on the future of crypto, a State Duma (the lower chamber of Parliament) …

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DeFi The AMM DEX makes it possible to manage liquidity on any chain from a single interface. Cover art/illustration via CryptoSlate Symbiosis Finance is a multi-chain AMM DEX and liquidity protocol that allows users to perform any crypto token swap. After a long period of testing, Symbiosis announced its beta mainnet launch which enables instant …

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Demonstrators hold a banner reading “Indict Trump” at Trump Tower prior to a protest on the first anniversary of the January 6 riots at the Capitol. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images) LightRocket via Getty Images Donald Trump refinanced Trump Tower in February, taking out a $100 million loan, according to documents recorded Tuesday …

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The London Metal Exchange suspended the trading of nickel on Mar. 8 following a doubling in price in just two days to trade above $100,000 per ton. Mar. 8’s price was four times the price a week earlier. The price had been rising in recent weeks because of worries about supply chain disruptions due to Russia’s …

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When the demo day for Y Combinator’s winter cohort of startups begins later this month, Bloom will put Sudan on the American accelerator’s famed map for the first time. The barely year-old company was founded by Ahmed Ismail, a Sudanese former Barclays investment bank associate, and Youcef Oudjidane, an Algerian former managing partner at an …

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If you want to help Ukraine, send cash, not things. After seeing the news of the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Ukraine, you might be tempted to help by shipping food, tents, water bottles, toys, or other physical things to the country. But, as well-intentioned as donated goods may be, they often do more harm than …

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In a survey last June, Prudential Financial found that about a quarter of US respondents planned to leave their employer once the risk of the pandemic had decreased. Well, here we are—covid restrictions in the US are lifting, offices are reopening—and sure enough, 22% of participants in Prudential’s newest survey say they are already hunting …

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The working group weighed in on the side of the Finance ministry in a call to regulate, not ban crypto. 1322 Total views 17 Total shares Amid the ongoing discussion between the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) and the nation’s Finance Ministry on the future of crypto, a State Duma (the lower chamber of Parliament) …

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