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The Art of Asking Your Parents for Money
27Dec By adminNo Comments
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The Art of Asking Your Parents for Money

Listen to article(1 minute)WSJ’s Personal Finance team presents a series on how to fix your financial life in 2024. Up now: asking for money Hitting your parents up for cash as an adult can be awkward. But sometimes the best money move is to ask for help.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Where Did All the Money Go? The Villain in Your Transaction History
26Dec By adminNo Comments
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Where Did All the Money Go? The Villain in Your Transaction History

Listen to article(2 minutes)WSJ’s Personal Finance team presents a series on how to fix your financial life in 2024. First up: taking on lifestyle creep.Anyone trying to figure out why they are scraping by at the end of the year could safely pin part of the blame on inflation. Higher prices have made it easier than ever to miss that other sneaky cause of overspending: lifestyle creep. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Where Did All the Money Go? The Villain in Your Transaction History
26Dec By adminNo Comments
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Where Did All the Money Go? The Villain in Your Transaction History

Listen to article(2 minutes)WSJ’s Personal Finance team presents a series on how to fix your financial life in 2024. First up: taking on lifestyle creep.Anyone trying to figure out why they are scraping by at the end of the year could safely pin part of the blame on inflation. Higher prices have made it easier than ever to miss that other sneaky cause of overspending: lifestyle creep. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Glynn’s Take: Squeeze on Australian Households Worse Than Thought
14Dec By adminNo Comments
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Glynn’s Take: Squeeze on Australian Households Worse Than Thought

Dec. 13, 2023 9:21 pm ET|WSJ ProSYDNEY—The squeeze on Australian household budgets appears much worse than thought, with a sharp surge in tax payments adding to the pain already being felt from soaring interest rates.For the Reserve Bank of Australia, which outwardly at least still appears hawkish, the pain being felt across suburbia looks set to quash any remaining thoughts of a further rise in interest rates next year.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Australian Households Coping Well With Soaring Rates, Inflation, RBA Says
8Dec By adminNo Comments
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Australian Households Coping Well With Soaring Rates, Inflation, RBA Says

Dec. 7, 2023 9:27 pm ET|WSJ ProSYDNEY—Despite interest rates in Australia rising at a record pace over the last year and half, household budgets have adapted to sharply rising mortgage repayments, and instances of extreme financial stress are scant, according to the Reserve Bank of Australia.“While budget pressures are being widely felt across indebted households, most of these households have managed to adjust to these pressures,” Andrea Brischetto, head of financial stability at the RBA, said Friday.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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UK Retail Sales Remained Weak in November Despite Black Friday Lift
5Dec By adminNo Comments
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UK Retail Sales Remained Weak in November Despite Black Friday Lift

Retail sales growth in the U.K. remained weak in November despite a boost from Black Friday, with the cost-of-living crisis continuing to squeeze household budgets, according to the latest British Retail Consortium data published on Tuesday.Total retail sales for the four weeks to Nov. 25 increased by 2.7% compared with the prior month, when it saw growth of 2.5%, the BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor report said. This was above the three-month average growth of 2.6%, but compares with 4.2% growth in November last year.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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