Interest rates are near historic lows due to worsening economic fallout from theCOVID-19 pandemic. They’re unlikely to appreciably rise until there’s an effective vaccine or treatment for the virus that causes COVID-19 and business and consumer confidence levels approximate prepandemic readings. ...
This research assesses how low-income households in rural Kenya coped with the immediate economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. It uses granular financial data from weekly household interviews covering six weeks before the first case was detected in Kenya to five weeks after during which ...
During the COVID 19 times, I was in urgent need of some funds for the treatment of my brother and I was not able to get it from anywhere. Even the bank I have my salary account refused to provide me a personal loan, then my friend told me about RULOANS and after contacting them,...
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Khoury serves on the National Committee on COVID-19 (NCC) as special advisor on health to the Prime Minister. Dr Azar serves on the NCC as an infectious disease expert representing Saint George University Medical Center. No other disclosures were reported. Re...
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. Acknowledgements The author will like to acknowledged the support by UNISA for open access publicatio...
“Significant efforts being made by the tech community to combat big issues” from COVID-19 pandemic says PICTFOR report Fran OLeary from Lodestone Communications 22 Apr 2020 As social distancing measures have changed the way the nation functions, experts across the internet, communications and tech...
The housing market moves slowly, but with predictions of the second wave of COVID-19 coming this fall and a spike in cases over the summer,homeowners could still see a drop in home valuesin the months to come. Future housing market volatility is another reason homeowners should consider refin...
This comes even as cases of the COVID-19 Delta variant rise, signifying that it has yet to cause serious layoffs or other economic challenges. According to the Federal Reserve, the labor market has been the final battleground for raising interest rates. With inflation rising and the economy sh...
One used the same company I did (though I didn’t know it at the time), and another used a large regional company that as of this writing is still in business, but getting hammered pretty hard by the latest rate changes and high interest rates. Do some investigation on the components,...
The high interest rates are the price paid for quick access to the loan. It is no coincidence that two participants linked the caixinha to the activity of loan sharks: “That’s like a loan shark (…) My boss took the caixinha out of there, because it was a very serious problem. He...