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Russell Simmons Sells RushCard For $147M

RushCard, the prepaid debit card company founded by hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, is being bought by rival Green Dot for $147 million.

Exxon Profit Falls 40% As Cheap Oil Pain Lingers

ExxonMobil, the world's largest public oil company, revealed on Tuesday a 40% decline in fourth-quarter profits.

Exxon Profit Falls 40% as Cheap Oil Pain Lingers

Depressed oil prices are keeping the heat on Exxon at a time when the oil behemoth's longtime CEO Rex Tillerson has left to join the Trump administration.

Starbucks To Hire 10,000 Refugees Over Next 5 years

Starbucks says it will hire 10,000 refugees over the next five years.

Weekend Recap: Delta Airborne Again After National Outage

Delta systems are slowly coming back online after "automation issues" caused delays across the country, including at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

Wells Fargo to Merge International Business With Wholesale Banking

Wells Fargo & Co, the third-largest U.S. bank by assets, said on Thursday it would merge its international business with its wholesale banking unit that serves corporate clients. Spokesman Alan Elias said the international business previously stood on its own …

Super Bowl Gives Small Businesses a Chance to Score

Ayesha James and her husband were living in a Houston hotel in 2016 after their home and all the paperwork for their catering business were destroyed in a fire.

JPMorgan Chase Settles Federal Mortgage Discrimination Suit for $55 Million

JPMorgan Chase said Wednesday that it had agreed to settle a federal lawsuit accusing the bank of working with mortgage brokers who discriminated against minority borrowers for years by charging them $1,000 more than white customers.

Black Lady Liberty On a Coin for the First Time

A new commemorative coin from the U.S. Mint and Treasury features a fresh depiction of Lady Liberty

Exporting Oil and Gas Will Import Economic Growth

What could turn out to be President Obama's most effective economic policies only just happened: ending the 40-year ban on U.S. crude oil exports and approving terminal construction to export U.S. liquefied natural gas. And a Donald Trump presidency likely …

Mayor Turner Issues Statement Regarding City of Houston Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for Fiscal Year 2016

Results from the City of Houston’s most recent financial audit confirm the need for pension reform and a long-range financial plan for Houston. While the City’s assets grew in value over the past year and we received a clean opinion …

Resolve to Replace Your Bad Financial Habits

Most people have at least one bad financial habit. Whether it's impulse shopping, forgetting to pay bills on time or putting off building that emergency fund, balancing what you want to do and what you "should" do is never easy. …

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