10 Financial 'Rules' You Should Start Breaking Now
Filed under: Personal Finance, 529 Plans, Saving, Spending, Financial EducationYou should always max out your 401(k) and save for your kid's college education in a 529 plan, right? Maybe not. Most...
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Filed under: SavingPurchasing a vehicle is a big investment, so you want to make sure you do it right. Just as important, you want to make sure you don't do it wrong. To help you save cash on your next...
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Choice of Route Could Leave Airline Liable in Crash
Filed under: Company News, Transportation & Logistics, Travel Industry, Scandals and Lawsuits Dmitry Lovetsky/APInvestigators examine a piece of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane, near the...
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Americans Better About Paying Credit Card Bills on Time
Filed under: Personal Finance, Credit Cards, Credit Score, Debt Assistance, Financial Education Getty Images By ALEX VEIGA LOS ANGELES -- Americans are doing a better job of making timely credit card...
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Buffett Helps Burger King Seal Deal to Buy Out Tim Hortons
Filed under: Company News, Mergers & Acquisitions, Food & Beverage, Restaurants, Warren Buffett Spencer Platt/Getty Images MIAMI -- Burger King struck an $11 billion deal to buy Tim Hortons...
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Why Some Foreclosures Now Sell at Above-Market Prices
Filed under: Mortgages, Real Estate, Housing Market, Home Buying, Foreclosure Jim R. Bounds/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Jerry Kronenberg BOSTON -- Many Americans assume that homes facing foreclosure...
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McDonald's Real Trouble: It's Losing Millennials
Filed under: Company News, McDonald's, Consumer Goods, Food & Beverage, Restaurants AP/Charles Rex Arbogast McDonald's (MCD) is still the king -- sorry Burger King (BKW) -- but a lot of competitors...
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Durable Goods Orders Soar on Surge in Aircraft Demand
Filed under: Economic Indicators, Aerospace & Defense, Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics Bruce Smith/APWorkers assemble a Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Boeing's plant in...
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Durable Goods Gain of 22.6% Only Huge in the Headline
Filed under: EconomyDurable goods orders for July were reported Tuesday morning. Regardless of the headlines, this is one of the most volatile readings from month to month. The July reading for durable...
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Case-Shiller: Home Prices Fall in June
Filed under: Mortgages, Real Estate, Housing Market, Home Buying Mike Kane/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesT By Sam Forgione NEW YORK -- U.S. single-family home prices fell in June and disappointed...
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Consumer Confidence Strength Driven by Today Rather Than Tomorrow
Filed under: EconomyThe Conference Board has released its reading on Consumer confidence for the month of August. This is much broader than the recent consumer sentiment reading. Tuesday's headline...
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Best Buy Sees Revenue Shrink as Shoppers Shift Online
Filed under: Company News, Earnings, Retail, Best Buy, Consumer Electronics APA Microsoft Windows store at Best Buy. By Sruthi Ramakrishnan Best Buy, the largest U.S. specialty retailer of consumer...
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The Secrets of Outlet Shopping -- Savings Experiment
Filed under: Savings Experiment, Shopping#fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-781176{display:none;} .cke_show_borders #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-781176, #postcontentcontainer...
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Hewlett-Packard Recalls 6 Million Power Cords Over Fire Risk
Filed under: Consumer Ally, Recalls, Computers, Consumer Electronics, Saving Eye-Stock/Alamy More than 6 million power cords that came with two popular notebook computers are being recalled because...
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The Great Alaskan Bowl Co.: More Than Just Wooden Bowls
Filed under: Small Business, Manufacturing, Entrepreneurs, This Built America#fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-750599{display:none;} .cke_show_borders #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-750599,...
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Market Wrap: S&P 500 Closes Above 2,000 as Confidence Rises
Filed under: Market News, Economic Indicators, Investing AP/Richard Drew By ALEX VEIGA It was a big round-number day for the stock market. The Standard & Poor's 500 index closed a hair above 2,000...
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Private Colleges May Not Be Worth the Price of Admission
Filed under: Student Loans, Careers, Personal Finance, College, Financial Education Fuse/Getty Images Whether you're a parent wanting the best for their children or a student hoping to launch a dream...
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There's More Than One Way to Profit from an IRA Conversion
Filed under: IRA, Roth IRA, Income Tax, Tax Laws, Saving malerapaso Many Americans have traditional Individual Retirement Accounts, where your annual contributions are reduced from your taxable income,...
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Debt Killed My Dad. Learn from His Mistakes - and Mine.
Filed under: Family Money, Personal Finance, Estate Planning, Debt Assistance, Financial Education Shutterstock According to his death certificate, my dad died of myocardial infarction, otherwise known...
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Burger King Deal Gets a Proverbial Shrug in Washington
Filed under: Mergers & Acquisitions, U.S. Government, Food & Beverage, Restaurants, Tax Laws Christopher Millette/Erie Times-News via AP By Ben White | @morningmoneyben You would think Burger...
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