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WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 02: U.S. President Joe Biden in the Oval Office at the White House … [+] November 02, 2023 in Washington, DC. Biden has directed the Education Department to create a new student loan forgiveness plan. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Getty Images The Biden administration is working on a new student loan forgiveness plan. And borrowers who face significant hardships could potentially qualify for relief. The new program, designed to replace Biden’s first mass student debt relief initiative that was rejected by the Supreme Court, is currently being developed by the Education Department. Earlier this week, the…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Indian infrastructure tycoon Gautam Adani’s flagship company withstood a collapse in coal trading revenues to post a rise in quarterly operating profits, in results published Thursday. While higher taxes and other issues pushed down Adani Enterprises’ net profits, reduced inventories and unusually high margins in coal trading helped the company generate operating profits of Rs21bn ($252mn) in the three months to September, up from Rs16bn in the same quarter last year. The resilient performance came even as overall revenues for the company’s…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) logo is seen outside the headquarters building in Washington, U.S., September 4, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File Photo (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) review mission met with Pakistani authorities in Islamabad on Thursday and commended the government on its progress toward economic recovery, the country’s finance ministry said in a statement. The South Asian nation is operating under a caretaker government after an IMF loan programme, approved in July, helped avert a sovereign debt default. Under the $3 billion standby arrangement (SBA), Pakistan received $1.2 billion from the IMF as the…
Why Roku (ROKU) Stock Is Up Today What Happened: Shares of streaming TV platform Roku (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:) jumped 15.6% in the morning session after the company reported third quarter results that exceeded analysts’ revenue expectations, driven in part by better active account growth. While revenue guidance for Q4 was in line, adjusted EBITDA guidance was well ahead, and that was probably the most exciting aspect of this earnings report. Overall, this quarter’s results seemed fairly positive, and shareholders should feel optimistic. Is now the time to buy Roku? Find out by reading the original article on StockStory. What is the…
Constellation Energy declares $0.282 dividend
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said the House of Representatives would “next” be looking at a funding bill that combines U.S. border security and Ukraine aid. In his first formal GOP leadership press conference as speaker, Johnson anticipated that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle would support such legislation.”Ukraine will come in short order. It will come next,” Johnson said. “You’ve heard me say that we want to pair border security with Ukraine, because I think we can get bipartisan agreement on both of those matters.”MAYORKAS CONFIRMS OVER 600,000 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS EVADED LAW ENFORCEMENT AT SOUTHERN BORDER LAST FISCAL YEAR…
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Programs offering “direct admissions”—without a formal application–are spreading. The trend could accelerate in the the wake of the Supreme Court decision killing affirmative action. By Emma Whitford, Forbes Staff More than half of students report that applying to college is the most stressful academic experience they’ve had, but 18-year-old Elsy-Marbeli Cruz-Parra skipped the angst and the applications. By the end of October of 2022, based on her high school grades alone, she had been automatically admitted to 47 two-year or four-year colleges in Minnesota. “It was relieving,” says Cruz-Parra, the first in her family to attend college. Cruz was one…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.It is natural to clutch your companion anxiously during a sheer drop on a rollercoaster. That explains the tight embrace in which US amusement park operators Cedar Fair and Six Flags are locked. The economy is showing signs of dipping in response to persistently high interest rates.On Thursday, the pair announced an all-stock merger. They will make roughly equal contributions to a combined business with an $8bn enterprise value. Like most such deals, this one has defensive characteristics.Amusement parks have been huge…
© Reuters. Governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey addresses the media during a press conference concerning interest rates, at the Bank of England, in London, Britain, November 2, 2023. HENRY NICHOLLS/Pool via REUTERS By Howard Schneider, William Schomberg and Francesco Canepa (Reuters) – The Bank of England’s decision to hold its policy interest rate steady on Thursday puts the world’s three major central banks in a “higher-for-longer” holding pattern the length of which will hinge on how inflation behaves, the strength of U.S. growth and the depth of developing slowdowns in Europe and the UK, and whether bond…