After Market: A Nice Rebound After Last Week's Weak Showing
Filed under: Earnings, Market News, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investing Citigroup grabbed the spotlight Monday -- for reasons both positive and negative -- while Wall Street continued its march...
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Financial Planning for Millennials: Yes, You Can Afford It
Filed under: Family Money, Personal Finance, Retirement Plans, Planning, Financial Education Alamy Wells Fargo recently released a study on millennials and their money, and among its revelations was...
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Why I Dumped My American Express Platinum Card
Filed under: Personal Finance, Credit Cards, Financial Education Martin Carlsson/Alamy I remember deliberating whether to get the American Express (AXP) Platinum card for over a year. What drew me to...
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Expected Microsoft Layoffs Could Top 5,800, Report Says
Filed under: Company News, Microsoft, Job Market, Layoffs, Computer Industry Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Supriya Kurane Microsoft (MSFT) is planning its biggest round of job cuts in...
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Yellen: Recovery Incomplete, Loose-Money Policy Justified
Filed under: Inflation, Unemployment Rate, Economic Recovery, Federal Reserve, Interest Rates Susan Walsh/APFederal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen By Howard Schneider and Michael Flaherty WASHINGTON -- The...
View Article9 Annoying Hotel Scams and Fees to Watch Out for
Filed under: Travel, Ripoffs & Scams, SavingBy Bob Sullivan When you check into a hotel, don't set let scam artists or misbehaving companies check into your wallet. There are ripoffs, and there are...
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JPMorgan Profit Slips 8% as Securities Trading Income Drops
Filed under: JP Morgan Chase, Earnings, Banks, Securities Kathy Willens/AP By David Henry and Tanya Agrawal JPMorgan Chase (JPM), the biggest U.S. bank by assets, said Tuesday that second-quarter...
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Money Minute: Citigroup Customers Await Big Mortgage Relief
Filed under: Technology, Citigroup, Market News, Internet, Telecommunications If you have a mortgage serviced by Citigroup you could be eligible for some mortgage relief. Citigroup (C) has agreed to...
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Fresh Data Suggest Economy Firing on All Cylinders
Filed under: Retail, Economic Indicators, GDP, Consumer Goods, Manufacturing Toby Talbot/AP By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON -- A gauge of U.S. consumer spending rose solidly in June, in the latest...
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Another Disappointing Retail Sales Number at Quarter-End
Filed under: EconomyJune turned out to not be a great month for retail sales. The Census Bureau reported that advance monthly sales for retail and food services rose by only 0.2% to $439.9 billion on a...
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The Art of Letting Go: Trend Sets Paintings Free, Randomly
Filed under: Fantastic Freebies, Art, Antiques & Collectibles, How to Save Money, Saving Drew Trachtenberg/AOLTwo women at a highway rest stop claim two of Leonard Zatz's paintings. The art was...
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Trim the Cost of Travel Packages -- Savings Experiment
Filed under: Savings Experiment, Travel Industry#fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-484947{display:none;} .cke_show_borders #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-484947, #postcontentcontainer...
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Reynolds to Buy Tobacco Rival Lorillard for $25 Billion
Filed under: Company News, Mergers & Acquisitions, Industry News, Consumer Goods, Tobacco Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesNewport is Lorillard's flagship cigarette brand. By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM...
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It's Time to Talk About Taboo Money Topics with Your Kids
Filed under: Investing Basics, Family Money, Personal Finance Alamy While a recent survey by Citi (C) shows that nine out of 10 parents teach their kids about money and 59 percent say they talk to...
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Yellen Testimony Signals Accommodative Policy and Low Rates to Continue
Filed under: EconomyFed Chair Janet Yellen is delivering her semiannual Monetary Policy Report in front of Congress on Tuesday. The testimony is before the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban...
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Consumer Electronics Sales Going to All-Time Highs in 2014 and 2015
Filed under: InvestingThe Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is now looking for 2014 to be an all-time record high for global consumer electronics. Its semi-annual sales forecasts signaling that...
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No Inflation Seen in Import and Export Prices
Filed under: EconomyInflation in international trade will be nothing to scare the Federal Reserve into a major inflationary panic. June's import and export prices were more than just tame. Export...
View Article15 Easy Ways to Cut Health Care Costs Without Cutting Quality
Filed under: Health Care, Personal Finance, How to Save Money, SavingHealth care is a hot topic these days, and there have been plenty of changes in how it works in this country in recent years. But...
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House Votes to Extend Moratorium on Internet Taxes
Filed under: Personal Finance, Internet, Public Utilities, Sales Tax, Financial Education Getty Images By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER WASHINGTON -- The House has voted to make permanent a moratorium that...
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Why Producer Prices Could Show Inflationary Pressures
Filed under: EconomyOn Wednesday morning the markets will have to deal with yet another reading on inflation — albeit at the wholesale level. The US Labor Department will report its reading for the...
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