Money Files

TOKYO — Japan’s finance minister will not attend this weekend’s London gathering of finance ministers and central bank heads from the Group of 20 for health reasons, the Ministry of Finance said Tuesday.

Extremely dangerous Hurricane Jimena roared toward Mexico’s resort-studded Baja California Peninsula on Monday, chasing away an international finance conference and prompting emergency workers to start evacuating thousands of people from shantytowns.

T he nation’s new credit-card reforms, some of which took effect two weeks ago, are already known for what they don’t do at least as much as for what they do.

LONDON – The UK’s economic recovery is under threat because manufacturers are still struggling to get credit, The Daily Telegraph reported in its Tuesday edition.

Six years ago, Herschel Ferguson’s life took a devastating turn for the worse.

DOHA: Qatar International Islamic Bank is offering its customers loans with the lowest profit rate starting at 3.7 percent to finance car purchase, the bank said yesterday in a statement.

NEW YORK – Visa Inc. said Monday it will prepay the rest of a major legal settlement with U.S. merchants in order to get a discount that will save the credit card processor more than $100 million.

LONDON – The UK’s economic recovery is under threat because manufacturers are still struggling to get credit, The Daily Telegraph reported in its Tuesday edition.

The body of a woman in her 20s was found in a home in Abbotsford on Sunday, and police said the incident is being investigated as a homicide.

When President Obama unveiled the Making Home Affordable Program in March, he said it would help “responsible folks who have been making their payments” reduce their monthly mortgage bills and avoid losing their homes to foreclosure.