7 Worst Wedding Gifts: Something Blue, Someone Blew It
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View ArticleTry Quitting Amazon Prime. Bet You Can't
Filed under: Media, Retail, Internet, Publishing, Investing www.amazon.com Pop quiz time! Amazon Prime is like which of the following? The Eagles' "Hotel California," because you can check out anytime...
View ArticleN.Y. Attorney General Accuses Barclays of 'Dark Pool' Fraud
Filed under: Banks, Investment Fraud, Scandals and Lawsuits, Securities, Stock Markets, Investing Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images Barclays CEO Antony Jenkins By Karen Freifeld and John McCrank...
View ArticleWith Aereo Dead, What's Next for Internet TV?
Filed under: Technology, Entertainment Industry, Internet, Scandals and Lawsuits, Investing Aereo/AP By RYAN NAKASHIMA LOS ANGELES -- Just because Aereo's business model has been shot down by the...
View ArticleGoogle Removes First Search Results After EU Ruling
Filed under: Company News, Technology, Consumer Goods, Internet, Consumer Issues Paul Sakuma/AP By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS -- Google (GOOG) has begun removing some search results to comply with a...
View ArticleMoney Minute: Facebook's 'Depressing' Lack of Diversity
Filed under: Technology, Market News, Job Market, Entertainment Industry, Scandals and Lawsuits Facebook just came out with its staffing report and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg would have to...
View ArticleConsumer Spending Ticks Up; Jobless Claims Tick Down
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View ArticleThis Household Item Will Save You Big -- Savings Experiment
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View ArticleMortgage Rates Drift Lower as Housing Market Struggles
Filed under: Mortgages, Refinancing, Housing Market, Home Buying, Interest Rates Brian Chan/Alamy Average U.S. rates on fixed mortgages declined this week, hovering near historically low levels....
View ArticleThe Secret Behind How I'm Saving 40% of My Pay
Filed under: Personal Finance, Budgeting, How to Save Money, Planning Blend Images/Alamy By Lauren Bowling In our Money Mic series, we hand over the podium to people with controversial views about...
View ArticleFour Ways We Feed a Family of Five for $575 a Month
Filed under: Family Money, Shopping, Budgeting Dave and Les Jacobs/Blend Images Simply put, grocery shopping is expensive. The Department of Agriculture says that groceries can average $600 to nearly...
View ArticleIt's Summer, and Scammers Are Calling Seniors
Filed under: Consumer Ally, Consumer Issues, Consumer Protection, Ripoffs & Scams, Internet Fraud, Financial Education Maximult/Shutterstock Seniors are among the most common victims of con...
View ArticleAfter Market: Fear of Fed Action Makes Investors Skittish
Filed under: Market News, IPOs, Investing Worries about interest rates rising earlier than anticipated sent Wall Street lower Thursday, but GoPro flew high on its first day of trading. Comments by the...
View ArticleShould Dividend Investors Eject Merck & Co., Inc?
Filed under: Investing Merck has one of the largest dividends in health care, but does that make it one of the sector's top dividend stocks? In this video, Motley Fool Healthcare analyst David...
View ArticleShould Dividend Investors Eject Johnson & Johnson?
Filed under: Investing Healthcare conglomerate Johnson & Johnson is many things, a dividend aristocrat, a blue chip stock, and a Dow component, but does that make it one of the sector's top...
View ArticleIs GlaxoSmithKline's Dividend Safe?
Filed under: Investing GlaxoSmithKline is one of the globe's largest drug companies. The company generates more than $40 billion in annual sales and, given that its dividend yield is nearly 5%, its...
View ArticleInvestors Need to Keep an Eye Out for This Developing Trend
Filed under: Investing Big tobacco is used to threats from government policies, regulations, and taxes. So Philip Morris and British American , the world's largest two publicly traded tobacco...
View ArticleSocial Security: 3 Simple Charts That Will Help You Decide When to Take Benefits
Filed under: Investing Deciding when to take Social Security benefits is one of the most important financial decisions you'll ever make. Among other things, you should consider when you'll need the...
View ArticleDoes Your Portfolio Need a Woman's Touch?
Filed under: Investing Investors in PepsiCo , Lockheed Martin , and Procter & Gamble may reap the benefits of being ahead of a new trend in investing: the "gender lens." With a focus on companies...
View ArticleWhy Amedisys, LightInTheBox, and Manitowoc Are Today's 3 Best Stocks
Filed under: Investing The broad-based S&P 500 may continue to pull rabbits out of its economic hat in order to justify new all-time highs, but this week went to the bears. The iconic index...
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