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Rolls-Royce has opened its first U.S. “Private Office,” a secret VIP design studio for ultra-wealthy clients who want highly personalized cars. The Private Office, in Manhattan’s trendy Meatpacking District, is central to the fabled British automaker’s new strategy of growing sales and profits from selling more customized, higher-priced vehicles rather than boosting production. Rolls-Royce produced
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The average rate on the 30-year-fixed mortgage jumped 27 basis points Friday morning following the release of the government’s monthly employment report. The rate is now 6.53%, according to Mortgage News Daily. That is 42 basis points higher than Sept. 17, the day before the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark rate by half a percentage
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Insured losses for Hurricane Helene are now estimated at over $6 billion, but the uninsured losses are far higher. That’s because the vast majority of homes impacted by the storm, especially in hard-hit North Carolina, did not have flood insurance. New risk-assessment technology is designed to help change that for the future. Most homeowners in
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People walk on a pedestrian bridge displaying the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock indexes on January 02, 2024 in Shanghai, China.  Hugo Hu | Getty Images That’s because these funds mostly invest in Chinese equities that trade on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange or U.S. exchange-listed companies that are headquartered or incorporated in China. Mainland Chinese markets,
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The Starling Bank banking app on a smartphone. Adrian Dennis | AFP via Getty Images U.K. financial regulators hit British digital lender Starling Bank with a £29 million ($38.5 million) fine over failings related to its financial crime prevention systems. In a statement on Wednesday, London’s Financial Conduct Authority said it had fined Starling “for
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Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna, speaking at a fintech event in London on Monday, April 4, 2022. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg via Getty Images A European technology talent brain drain is the biggest risk factor facing Klarna as the Swedish payments company gets closer to its upcoming initial public offering, according to CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski.
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Revolut CEO, Nikolay Storonsky (L) and Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Reuters British financial technology firm Revolut on Thursday criticized Facebook parent company Meta over its approach to tackling fraud, saying the U.S. tech giant should directly compensate people who fall victim to scams via its social media platforms. A day after Meta announced a partnership
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Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Denim-crazed consumers are turning to Levi Strauss & Co for new jeans, but the company’s overall business is being dragged down by its Dockers brand, which the company is now considering selling off, it announced Wednesday.  Sales at Levi’s brand were up 5% during its fiscal third quarter — the
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