Valoren numbers are Swiss financial identifiers, similar to CUSIPs in the U.S. and Canada, used to uniquely mark financial instruments without embedded data.

Whenever you look at a clock, do you always see the same time? It might be 11:11 or 3:33. Maybe repeating numbers have made their way into other aspects of your life, such as a receipt that totaled ...

What is your favorite number? For many people, it may be an irrational number such as pi (π), Euler’s number (e) or the square root of 2. Even among the natural numbers (positive integers), there are ...

On June 6, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. decided to let the FCC require that cell phone carriers let customers keep their phone numbers when switching providers. This means that cell ...

Rebecca Lake is a certified educator in personal finance (CEPF) and a banking expert. She's been writing about personal finance since 2014, and her work has appeared in numerous publications online.

That’s why writers who want to be read are careful about how they use numbers in their stories. Bill Blundell was an award-winning reporter for the Wall Street Journal, a newspaper written for a ...