A congressional agreement to increase the U.S. debt limit and reduce federal spending may take until August, the Republican chairman of the U.S. House Budget Committee said.
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A proposed deal between Trans Hex and De Beers is subject to some conditions which may prove difficult to meet.
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SA shoppers may get access to low-priced clothes if Walmart’s takeover of Massmart goes ahead.
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Many people do not know what bad credit means. There is something called a credit score which sensibly includes all the credit information available about your credit conduct. Credit score exposes all the credit information which gives an idea about the risk involved with a specific person, when he applies for a loan. Most lenders take the reference of a credit score while deciding whether to extend loan to you or not. Regular customers on the other hand are those who have a perfect to good credit history. Thus, terms on which loans are offered to such borrowers are fairly lenient than for the bad credit borrowers. A recent survey has shown that one fifth of the adult population cannot qualify for regular loans. For such a huge loan borrowing populace there are specific loan plans called bad credit loans.
The principal debate of the borrowers is the exceptional high rate of interest that they have to shell out for bad credit loans. When compared with the terms offered to the regular customers, the terms on which bad credit loans come indeed look extravagant. The amount that is actually sanctioned as a bad credit loan will be lesser than what is desired. This again depends on the lending policies prevalent among the loan providers of a particular region. There are certain lenders who do not consider bad credit people posing too much of a risk. While approving a bad credit loan application, the loan lender is not always paying attention on the credit score. There are other criteria which have as much influence for getting a bad credit loan approved like equity, job history, income, savings, and the loan type. Bankruptcy, arrears, late payments, CCJs, defaults, foreclosure and any court case are seen as bad credit cases. None of these things on your credit report can prevent you from having bad credit loans. Documentation required with bad credit loans will include income tax returns, bank statements, estimate of property and title of the property, documents to see that there are no legal disputes relating to collateral. Requirements for documents can also increase or decrease with different lenders. It is thus advisable to look for genuine lender and not get into the trap of a faulty-money hungry one.
Wesizwe Platinum shares have responded positively to the news that a proposed takeover deal by a Chinese consortium has been finalised.
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Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Vermont’s Independent Sen. Bernard Sanders spent over eight hours denouncing the new agreement to extend Bush-era tax cuts to millions of Americans.
Speaking on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Sanders spoke out against President Barack Obama’s efforts, saying the deal only increases America’s debt and fails to solve the underlying economic issues that mire the country.
Reading letters from constituents, Sanders took aim at Obama, Senate Republicans, China and others.
“I’m not here to set any great records or to make a spectacle. I am simply here today to take as long as I can to explain to the American people the fact that we have got to do a lot better than this agreement provides,” Sanders said.
Nonetheless, the deal will move forward and is likely to clear Congress before the holidays.
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No comment? No way. You don’t stop Bill Clinton when he’s back at the White House with something to say.
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The temperature in Washington dipped into the 20s last week, and here in the capital, that seems to be the point when hell freezes over: President Obama reached an agreement on the Bush tax cuts with the Republican Senate leader who said “the single most important thing we want to achieve is for …
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New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Howard Stern announced on Thursday he renewed his contract with Sirius XM radio. News of the new five year agreement was broadcast on his satellite radio show.
“On my first day in satellite radio Sirius had approximately 600,000 subscribers. Today, the two companies have 20 million; and, in my view, we have just scratched the surface of how many people will get on board,” said Howard Stern. “I am especially excited that my show will now be heard through Sirius XM on mobile devices. Access to my show on mobile devices will open up additional opportunities for my fans to hear me wherever they are.”
Sirius merged with its competitor XM satellite radio in 2008 to form Sirius XM.
Speculation had been growing for months on what Stern would do. Some theories had him renewing his contract; others had him going to Internet, traditional broadcast radio, or premium cable TV. The shock jock who famously battled with censors over his often raunchy show when he was on terrestrial radio had been in fierce negotiations for months at close of his original five year, 500 million contract drew to a close.
“Howard is a great talent and we are thrilled that he will continue to provoke, engage and entertain on SIRIUS XM. Our agreement is good news on all fronts – it is good for SIRIUS XM subscribers and good for SIRIUS XM stockholders. Howard forever changed radio and was instrumental in putting SIRIUS on the map when he first launched on satellite radio. He is one of the few ‘one-name’ entertainers in the country and our 20 million subscribers are lucky to have him,” said Mel Karmazin, Chief Executive Officer, Sirius XM.
Some notable reactions on Twitter include actors John Stamos and Brent Spiner.
Stamos told his followers, “not many people can say they are the absolute best at what they do!! congrats to howard stern on his new deal with sirius.”
Famed actor of an interplanetary space series Spiner told his followers, “Wish I had stock in Sirius radio today. Up on news of Howard Stern’s new contract. Tis the season to be jolly, falalalalalala!”
Stern, the self-proclaimed “King of all media: is credited with revolutionizing the talk radio format. Known for his large and extremely loyal fan base and for his unequalled ability to migrate fans to other media, but the figures Stern attributes are being called inflated.
Much of the 20 million subscribers Sirius XM has now is linked to the “growth came from the [2008] merger between Sirius and XM,” says Joe Flint in the Los Angeles Times.
At the height of Stern’s broadcast on terrestrial radio, his show was carried by 62 stations across the country and had 12 million listeners.
Howard’s new contract will run through December 31, 2015. His payout hasn’t been disclosed but under the terms of the new contract, Sirius XM will now have the right to transmit Howard’s exclusive programming to mobile devices.
In February, Sirius XM launched its BlackBerry app, however Stern and MLB.com were excluded for undisclosed reasons.
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The tax deal struck by President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans essentially gives Americans a pay raise – pumping money into the economy almost immediately and probably creating hundreds of thousands of jobs over the next two years, economists say.
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