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Flagship Communities Real Estate Investment Trust Announces First Quarter 2024 Results
Flagship Communities Real Estate Investment TrustNot for distribution to U.S. newswire services or dissemination in the United States.TORONTO, May 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Flagship Communities Real Estate Investment Trust (“Flagship” or the “REIT”) (TSX: MHC.U; MHC.UN) today released its first quarter 2024 results. The financial results of…
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Steward Health Care files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
BOSTON – Steward Health Care, the struggling health care provider that relied on backing from private equity investors to quickly acquire dozens of community hospitals, including facilities in Massachusetts, Texas and Florida, announced Monday that it is filing for bankruptcy.Steward, which is millions of dollars in debt, said it has "commenced…
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Social Security funds to last longer than expected thanks to sturdy economy
The combined trust funds for Social Security are projected to run out a year later than previously expected, a board of trustees of the program’s accounts said Monday.
In the latest report, trustees project that the depletion date for the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund, which pays out Social Security benefits to…
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Emerging Markets’ Second Growth Wave is Straight Ahead
In the next decade emerging markets will leverage increasingly healthy economic fundamentals and harness technological innovation to drive the next era of global growth. In this special publication to celebrate the 30-year anniversary of our emerging markets team, we detail why we are firmly positive on…
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Social Security now expected to run short on funds in 2035, one year later than previously
People leave a Social Security Administration building in Burbank, California. Valerie Macon | Afp | Getty ImagesThe Social Security trustees credited the slightly improved outlook to more people contributing to the program amid a strong economy, low unemployment and higher job and wage growth. Last year, the trustees projected the program's…
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Two Big Bitcoin Catalysts Could Drive MicroStrategy Stock Gains, TD Cowen Says
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Seattle-area housing market is heating up
The Seattle area’s spring housing market continued to heat up in April, with more activity and higher home prices across the region, particularly in King County.The number of new listings and home sales climbed throughout the Puget Sound region in April, a typical seasonal uptick. But costs continue to soar, according to new data the…
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Stock futures inch higher Sunday after weaker-than-expected jobs report left investors
46 Mins AgoBerkshire Hathaway cut Paramount exposure entirelyWarren Buffett revealed that he dumped Berkshire Hathaway's entire Paramount stake at a loss."I was 100% responsible for the Paramount decision," Buffett said at Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting on Saturday. "We've sold it all and we lost quite a bit of money."The Omaha-based…
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$3 trillion could be injected into the U.S. economy without any federal spending by
The U.S. housing market is harboring the potential for unprecedented economic stimulus that wouldn’t require any federal spending, according to Meredith Whitney, the one-time “Oracle of Wall Street” who predicted the Great Financial Crisis.
While she has recently warned of the dangers that the “crisis of the American male” poses to the…
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Portland’s King Farmers Market opens for the season
The King Farmers Market, held at the Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School parking lot, May 5, 2024. (KOIN)
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Farmers markets are returning across the area and even the drizzle couldn’t keep the crowds away from King Farmers Market in Northeast Portland Sunday morning.
Typically arriving around the…
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