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Despite a wave of new COVID-19 cases, mortgage rates started 2022 on an upswing. The average rate on the popular 30-year mortgage marked 3.64 percent on Monday, Jan. 10 after a two-week increase in December. Available economic data was slow…
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The rate of delinquencies in U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities increased in December, breaking a 17-month string of declines that began after the worst of the COVID-19 downturn took hold in early 2020. According to the commercial realty analytics firm Trepp,…
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Well, that didn’t take long: Just weeks after sealing a deal that made it the region’s second-largest wealth-planning firm, Creative Planning has started the new year with another significant acquisition. This time, it has added Berno Financial Management, a Cincinnati…
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The Internal Revenue Service has issued its 2022 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes. The agency issued a news release that said, effective this week,…
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Two measures have been approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The first allows increased access to additional doses of Pzifer’s COVID-19 vaccine, the second shortening the recommended interval of time between the initial dose and the booster.…
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The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research will soon announce successful development of a vaccine that is effective against COVID-19 and all its variants, according to a report from DefenseOne.com. That protection, it said, extends even to the latest COVID…
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The acquisition of Intouch Group, one of the Kansas City region's most successful entrepreneurial ventures over the past generation, has been completed, the Overland Park company and its new parent, Chicago-based Eversana, have announced. The deal, for a reported $950…
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With Kansas City already targeted as home for the world’s largest data-center operations, another player is suiting up to get into that game: An operating unit of Google has added more than 235 acres to a nearly 80-acre plot it…
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Pandemic-era house price growth in the United States galloped to the fastest pace ever recorded in the summer, but this pace slowed a little in the latest report. In September, the CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-City House Price Index rose three times…
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Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday appointed a former Topeka hospital executive as the new secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Janet Stanek has most recently been director of the state employee health benefits program. She replaces Dr.…
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