A new study by finance researchers at the University of Arkansas indicates that U.S. banks are losing anywhere from $3.8 billion to $5.3 billion in annual revenue due to the Federal Reserve's 2010 changes to overdraft policy. "The lower fee may
Since entering the finance sector more than three decades ago, Spokane-based financial adviser Donald Morgan says he's seen a lot of change in the area of wealth management. That change, he says, has been influenced by factors that include and a
According to the latest economic census, there are almost 9,000 companies in Spokane County with combined total revenues of nearly $18 billion. In the manufacturing sector alone, there are more than 500 companies with average annual revenues that 8
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says it has sold a 25 percent initial equity stake in a limited liability company it formed in its receivership capacity to hold certain loans of the failed Bank of Whitman, in Colfax, Wash.The 62 loans the to
Sir Winston Churchill remarked that one should "avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place." Nonetheless, I am moved to disregard his advice in this particular instance.Before I I
New loan incentives available through the U.S. Small Business Administration are keeping the total SBA loan volume here above pre-recession levels, despite the depletion of stimulus measures that spurred lending in 2010, some lenders here without a
Uncertainty over markets abroad, other factors also prevalent, top 10 list says
February 2, 2012
The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association's top 10 equipment acquisition trends for 2012 predicts growth in the $628 billion industry in the coming year, along with some uncertainty. Every year, the association says, U.S. businesses, and in
Investing in education has a little different meaning for a class of nine seniors in Gonzaga University's School of Business Administration.Class members have their hands on real moneytypically $100,000 split between two teamsto in &
The Idaho Transportation Department is in the final stages of acquiring the Trestle Creek Inn building and plans to demolish the longtime night club near Hope, Idaho, to make way for highway improvements, says Barbara Babic, ITD spokeswoman.The
Prominent Spokane homebuilder Condron Homes LLC is constructing a home with all American-made materials and plans to expand the concept to all of the homes the company builds in the future, says Corey Condron, the company's owner.Home was to at