New Owner Changing World's Most Famous Stock Exchange
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View ArticleAmazon + RadioShack = You've Got to Be Kidding
Filed under: Company News, Amazon.com, Market News, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investing John Raoux/AP Wall Street loves to play matchmaker, and this week kicked off with SunTrust analyst Bob Peck...
View ArticleMarket Wrap: Dow Flirts with Record as Investors Wait on Fed
Filed under: Market News, Federal Reserve, Investing AlamyFederal Reserve Building, Washington, D.C. By BERNARD CONDON NEW YORK -- The stock market rose Tuesday as investors waited to find out when the...
View ArticleHealthy or Wealthy: Best Way to the Second Is Via the First
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View Article8 Ways to Game a Life Insurance Exam and Get a Better Rate
Filed under: Health Care, Family Money, Personal Finance, Life Insurance Alamy Putting the doughnuts away and hiding the cigars won't likely help much if you're already an obese smoker trying to save...
View ArticleHow to Retire Early and Love It
Filed under: Retirement, Personal Finance, Career Change, Early Retirement, Retirement Living Getty ImagesFinding a part-time job you enjoy can help you retire years earlier. By Tom Sightings Early...
View ArticleReviewers of Apple's iPhone 6 Find Bigger Really Is Better
Filed under: Apple, Mobile Technology, Cell Phones, Consumer Electronics, Investing David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bigger is better and Apple (AAPL) has finally realized that and given...
View ArticleWall Street Awaits Any Signal From Fed on Interest Rates
Filed under: Inflation, Unemployment Rate, Federal Reserve, Interest Rates, This Built America Mark Lennihan/AP By MARTIN CRUTSINGER WASHINGTON -- Financial markets are awaiting the end of a Federal...
View ArticleFedEx to Add 50,000 Seasonal Jobs to Aid Holiday Deliveries
Filed under: Company News, Earnings, Transportation & Logistics Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images By David Koenig DALLAS -- Growth in online shopping is boosting profit at FedEx (FDX), and...
View ArticleConsumer Prices Post First Drop in Nearly 1½ Years
Filed under: Economic Indicators, Inflation, Consumer Goods, This Built America Sait Serkan Gurbuz/St. Joseph News-Press via AP By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON -- Consumer prices fell for the first time...
View ArticleMortgage Applications Rise After Holiday, but So Do Rates
Filed under: Mortgages, Real Estate, Housing Market, Home Buying, Interest Rates Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Diana Olick | @diana_olick Despite adjustments for the Labor Day holiday the...
View ArticleCPI Moves From Inflation to Deflation
Filed under: EconomyThe Bureau of Labor Statistics released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the month of August on Wednesday morning. Consumer prices fell in August, which creates a conundrum for a...
View ArticleFamily Dollar Opposes Dollar General's Hostile Buyout Bid
Filed under: Company News, Retail, Mergers & Acquisitions, Stores, This Built America Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images MATTHEWS, N.C. -- Family Dollar has told shareholders to reject an...
View ArticleHomebuilder Confidence Jumps in September
Filed under: Mortgages, Real Estate, Housing Market, Materials & Construction, Home Buying Keith Srakocic/AP By ALEX VEIGA U.S. homebuilders' confidence in the market for new, single-family homes...
View Article3 Things Every Spouse Must Know About Social Security
Filed under: Retirement, Divorce, Marriage, Retirement Living, Social Security Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock Social Security plays a vital role not just for American workers but also for their...
View ArticleWall Street Warms Up to Twitter Again
Filed under: Company News, Technology, Earnings, Upgrades and Downgrades, Investing incamerastock/Alamy Twitter (TWTR) is starting to give its investors something to tweet about. Things started heating...
View ArticleYour Lesson From CalPERS' Dumping of Hedge Funds
Filed under: Wall Street Watch, Stocks, Investing Alamy The California Public Employees' Retirement System recently announced that it was divesting all of the $4 billion in hedge fund investments in...
View ArticleLincoln Log Manufacturing Moving to Maine
Filed under: Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, Toys, This Built America Chris Willson/Alamy BURNHAM, Maine -- Lincoln Logs will soon be manufactured in Maine. Republican Gov. Paul LePage announced...
View ArticleFed Signals Plan to Keep Key Interest Rate at Record Low
Filed under: Inflation, Unemployment Rate, Federal Reserve, Interest Rates, This Built America Susan Walsh/APFederal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. By MARTIN CRUTSINGER WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve...
View ArticleHow the Death of Cash Could Hammer Small Businesses
Filed under: Technology, eBay, Small Business, Industry News, Security, Investing Artamonov Yury/Shutterstock Small businesses constantly face big challenges to their survival. With higher relative...
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