Although the report notes that the accounting change does negatively impact hospitals in the PERS system, the financial strength scoring system doesn't make any adjustments for it. Of the hospitals participating in PERS, only one was rated in good financial health. Three were rated fair and five were
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On this week's edition of Bloomberg Finance, co-hosts Peggy Collins and John Tucker speak with Bloomberg reporters about the finance news of the week including the decline of the long short, the Bitcoin bonanza and regulation outlooks for 2018. They'll also discuss how quantitative trading strategies
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Four Palestinians were killed and scores of others wounded during a day of clashes with Israeli forces, as protests flared over the U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Two Palestinians died after being shot in the head by Israeli soldiers in separate incidents near the border area
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A 27-year-old New York City-area woman has been accused of stealing and laundering more than $85,000, using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, to support ISIS, the U.S.
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A Manhattan art dealer faces federal charges that he used paintings by Wassily Kandinsky and other renowned artists as bait to defraud collectors and investors out of millions of dollars. Ezra Chowaiki, of the recently bankrupt Chowaiki & Co. Fine Art Ltd. on Park Avenue in New York, is accused of
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