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Cyprus's finance minister pleaded with Russia for help on Wednesday to avert a financial meltdown after the island's parliament rejected the terms of a European bailout, raising the specter of a looming default and bank crash.
Finance Minister Michael Sarris said he had reached no deal on financing with his Russian counterpart, Anton Siluanov, but talks were continuing.
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Jim Flaherty has a lot more calls to make.
The story circulating for the past couple of weeks is the finance minister or his office has been quietly scolding major financial institutions for engaging in so-called mortgage-rate wars that had seen the advertised rates on a five-year fixed rate product drop to 2.99%. The latest financial institution to get the call was Manulife, after it began ...
OTTAWA • Insisting that he will not tolerate a “race to the bottom” on mortgage rates, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has succeeded in pressuring Manulife Bank to cancel its plans to offer consumers a lower interest rate on its five-year-fixed mortgage. The intervention drew fire Tuesday from critics, inside and outside the House of Commons, accusing the minister of manipulating market prices. ...
It’s hard to be in the middle of gathering all your tax paperwork and figuring out what your deductions and income were for the year, and not start to think about that big refund that (hopefully) you’re getting. And it’s hard to think about that big refund, and not think about what you’re going to do with it. So this year, are you going to blow all that “found money” on niceties and luxuries? ...