If you are in the process of refinancing your mortgage, you may end up paying more than you expected. Fannie Mae FNMA, + 1.42% and Freddie Mac FMCC, + 1.67% announced Wednesday night that they will now charge a 0.5% negative market fee on all refinances, including both cash-out and …
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The death toll in the United States through July 2020 is 8% to 12% higher than it would have been if the coronavirus pandemic had never happened. That is at least 164,937 deaths above the number expected for the first seven months of the year – 16,183 more than the …
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KANCHANABURI, Thailand (AP) – Researchers in Thailand have already moved through the countryside to catch flags in their caves in an attempt to track down the costly origin of the coronavirus. Early research has already pointed to bats as the source of the virus that has affected more than 20.5 …
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Scientists have made a major breakthrough in the development of large-scale quantum computers. “Noise” remains the biggest problem for the development of quantum computers, and must be solved before they can be widely used and in the revolutionary ways proposed. The new paper suggests a way to handle such noise, …
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Text size Skip Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas on May 19 in Miami Beach, Fla. Cliff Hawkins / Getty Images Royal Caribbean Group CEO Richard Fain continues to see a slow return to business, at least initially, if that happens. Several companies have started operating cruises in Asia and …
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