Market Wrap: 3rd Day for a Broad Decline on Wall Street
Filed under: Market News, Economic Indicators, Biotechnology, Computer Industry, Manufacturing Joshua Lott/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK -- U.S. stocks dropped on Wednesday...
View ArticleNo Emergency Fund? Need Cash? You Have Some Lifelines
Filed under: Budgeting RubberBall/Alamy By Gerri Detweiler Everybody's heard it: You need to save three to six months' expenses in an emergency fund. Not as many of us have actually done it. In fact, a...
View ArticleAre Homeowners Better Drivers? Survey Finds Out
Filed under: Insurance, Personal Finance, Automotive Industry, Auto Insurance Shutterstock Homeownership is often used as a factor in determining risk when setting auto insurance premiums. Even though...
View ArticleYou May Never Buy Another PC or Tablet
Filed under: Technology, Apple, Computer Industry, Mobile Technology, Investing Biehler Michael/Shutterstock This is shaping up to be another troublesome year for PC makers, but it's not as if tablet...
View ArticleThis Popular Last-Minute Tax Move Might Be Wrong for You
Filed under: Personal Finance, Retirement Plans, IRA, Roth IRA, Tax Credits Shutterstock As the April tax filing deadline approaches, many taxpayers look for last-minute tax deductions they can use to...
View Article10 Strategies to Save for Retirement on a Low Income
Filed under: Personal Finance, Retirement Plans, How to Save Money, Saving Getty Images By Emily Brandon It's extremely difficult to save for retirement when you are only earning a small salary. The...
View ArticleThe 5 Weirdest Fast-Food Items Introduced So Far This Year
Filed under: Company News, Food & Beverage, Restaurants littlecaesars.com By Brian Sozzi Yum Brands' Taco Bell announced on Tuesday a new biscuit taco for breakfast, consisting of a biscuit shaped...
View ArticleGov't Aims to Protect Low-Income Users of 'Payday' Loans
Filed under: Personal Loans, Personal Finance, U.S. Government, Consumer Protection, Payday Loans Gary Tramontina/Bloomberg via Getty Images By JOSH BOAK WASHINGTON -- Each month, more than 200,000...
View Article7 Dumb (and Expensive) Moves Homebuyers Make
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View ArticleWhy Gas Could Plunge Below $2 a Gallon This Summer
Filed under: Energy, Gas Prices, Oil & Gas Industry, Consumer Issues, Economy David N. Goodman/APSome areas of the country have already seen gas prices fall below $2 a gallon, including Detroit in...
View ArticleGamers Lose If Nintendo's Next Console Bombs
Filed under: Company News, Technology, Computer Industry, Entertainment Industry, Consumer Electronics Akio Kon/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesNintendo's video-game character Mario stands at the Nintendo...
View ArticleFeds Go After Crooked Car Deals in National Crackdown
Filed under: U.S. Government, Car Buying, Auto Loans, Consumer Protection, Ripoffs & Scams Tetra Images/Alamy By ANNE FLAHERTY WASHINGTON -- A nationwide crackdown on auto dealers has turned up...
View ArticleBankruptcy Hearing to Decide What's Next for RadioShack
Filed under: Bankruptcy, Company News, Retail, Layoffs, Stores Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images By RANDALL CHASE WILMINGTON, Del. -- An attorney for a lender that lost a bankruptcy auction for...
View ArticleMarket Wrap: Wall Street Extends Losses to a 4th Day
Filed under: Energy, Earnings, Market News, Job Market, Oil & Gas Industry Andrew Burton/Getty Images By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK -- U.S. stocks fell for a fourth straight session Thursday but...
View Article15 Natural Cleaning Products You Can Make at Home
Filed under: How to Save Money, Home & Garden, Saving Shutterstock My parents and I immigrated to the U.S. when I was young, and money was tight. My dad worked long hours, while my stay-at-home mom...
View Article5 Billion-Dollar Companies You Don't Know - Yet
Filed under: Company News, Technology, Global Economy, Industry News jurvetson/Flickr There are some pretty big privately held companies out there that aren't very well known. With many of them, that...
View ArticleSomeone Filed a False Tax Return in Your Name - Now What?
Filed under: Identity Theft, Taxes, Consumer Ally, Income Tax fStop/Getty Images By Kira Brecht It's not just credit and debit cards that cyber hackers are after these days. Criminals are also using...
View ArticleDon't Throw Away Your SodaStream Just Yet
Filed under: Company News, Coca-Cola Company, Pepsico, Earnings, Food & Beverage sodastream.com The sales trend is problematic at SodaStream (SODA). The company behind the namesake beverage maker...
View ArticleHow to Keep Your Privacy in an Era of Pervasive Tracking
Filed under: Identity Theft, Technology Juergen Faelchle/Shutterstock By Mia Taylor Shuli Hallak is in the cloud business. Storing data in the cloud carries risks, but she is working on a secure...
View ArticleThe Next Big Automotive Boom: Super-Luxury SUVs
Filed under: Toyota, Industry News, Automotive Industry, Ford, Investing Automobili LamborghiniYes, it's a Lamborghini SUV: the Urus. Lamborghini first unveiled it as a concept in 2012, and something...
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