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New Unemployment Claims Down 48K To 709K

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24 were in Hawaii (9.9), California (8.9), New Mexico (8.5), Nevada (8.2), the Virgin Islands (7.1), Massachusetts (7.0), Puerto Rico (6.9), Georgia (6.8), District of Columbia (6.5) The highest insured unemployment rates in the week ending Oct. and Alaska (6.1). The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending Oct.

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Following The Madoff Money

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Trustees for the Madoff victims sued Harley that year in New York, stating that the fund should have known the purported Madoff returns were unrealistic. Based in the British Virgin Islands, the firm had been targeted by a trustee lawsuit that sought to claw back the $180 million the fund withdrew from Madoff before all was lost.

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Could This Be The Last Time We Change The Clocks?

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Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico, where daylight savings time is not observed. And more states – New York and Connecticut the most populous among them – are considering making a similar permanent DST move. local time. Well, except for the good people of Arizona, Hawaii, American Samoa, the U.S.

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A Simple Guide To Medicare Advantage And Why It’s Taking Off Now

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Devoted, for example, has managed to reach a $1.8B In Medicare Advantage, the government pays insurers one monthly sum per member to manage all health expenses. Insurers get a big profit opportunity – managing the complex care of seniors. The government can push the management of many seniors to the private sector.

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Surprise Edition: Amex, Hackers And Starbucks E-Commerce Sign-Off

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Virgin Islands and other U.S. Virgin Islands cards and its cards offered in the 50 U.S. Two American Express banking subsidiaries have found themselves on the wrong side of the CFPB’s fining pen for discriminating against consumers in Puerto Rico, the U.S. territories.

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FinCEN AML/CTF Priorities Part 4: Counterproliferation

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Kim Chol-Sam Kim Chol-Sam and British banker Nigel Cowie created numerous shell companies (was named in the Panama Papers linked to Mossack Fonseca the Panamanian law firm) including “DCB Finance”, in the British Virgin Islands, mainland China, and Hong Kong. Screen daily for duplicate addresses.

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