You ask for a higher credit limit. Your card issuer decides to raise your limit to $15,000. Just from that, your credit utilization has gone from 50% to about 33%, which will almost certainly ...
Enter the pay raise—that magical moment when your employer acknowledges your hard work and bumps your salary or wage, covering the increased cost of living and (hopefully) giving you some extra ...
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And for quite some time now, there's been a lot of speculation as to what that raise might entail. Thursday morning, however, September's Consumer Price Index was released. And since Social ...
Importantly, access to the funds could help spare people from having to use credit cards with devastatingly high interest rates when the unexpected arises.
Microsoft wasn't the only company that recently gave its investors a raise. Telecom giant Verizon (NYSE: VZ) increased its payment by less than 2%, while leading real estate investment trust (REIT ...
Yet politicians have been loth to raise taxes to keep pace, and in many cases have cut them. Borrowing has therefore soared and, to pay the bills, public services have been squeezed. As a result ...
Five of Nigeria’s largest banks have successfully issued fresh capital to meet tough new regulatory requirements, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission said, comfortably beating a ...