Bank of America's Mortgage Settlement Deal Deadlocked
Filed under: Company News, Bank of America, Mortgages, U.S. Government, Scandals and Lawsuits Steven Senne/AP By Supriya Kurane Bank of America and the U.S. Department of Justice have reached an...
View ArticleHigh Prices Pushing Many Homebuyers Away From Cities
Filed under: Mortgages, Real Estate, Housing Market, Materials & Construction, Home Buying M. Spencer Green/APA sign advertising Basecamp River North, a housing development that recently broke...
View ArticleMortgage Applications Rise As Rates Climb
Filed under: Mortgages, Refinancing, Real Estate, Housing Market, Home Buying Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK -- Applications for U.S. home mortgages rose...
View ArticleInsurers Will Propose Changes to Obamacare
Filed under: Health Care, Family Money, Personal Finance, Health Insurance, Financial Education LM Otero/AP By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR WASHINGTON -- Insurers want to change President Barack Obama's...
View ArticleMoney Minute: United Airlines Changes Rewards Program
Filed under: Market News, Job Market, Unemployment, Internet, Travel Industry United Airlines is changing the way it doles out frequent flier miles, and it may hurt many travelers. How many reward...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble Aims to Better Itself by Focusing on College
Filed under: Earnings, Retail, Barnes & Noble, Rumors, Industry News Karen Bleier/AFP/GettyImages Barnes & Noble (BKS), America's only remaining big brick-and-mortar bookstore chain, is hoping...
View ArticleVitaminwater Fans Drown Coke With Gripes Over Sweetener
Filed under: Consumer Goods, Food & Beverage, Consumer Issues, Investing Richard Levine/Alamy By CANDICE CHOI NEW YORK -- Fans of Vitaminwater are demanding that parent company Coca-Cola drop a new...
View ArticleHow You Can Retire as a Middle-Class Millionaire
Filed under: Retirement, 401K, IRA, How to Save Money Rrraum/Shutterstock It may or may not be enough to retire on, but a $1 million nest egg can be achieved by many families living on middle-class...
View Article5 Easy Ways to Save Money at Theme Parks This Summer
Filed under: Travel, Vacation Planning, Saving Vetal/Shutterstock Single-day admissions to some of the country's most popular theme parks hit $99 this summer. Tack on transportation, lodging and...
View ArticleIs Your Credit Card Debt Average? And What's Average?
Filed under: Credit, Debt, Credit Cards, Consumer Issues, Store Credit Cards Alamy Savvy consumers know that credit card debt is something to banish from your financial home if you can. But just how...
View ArticleShop Online for Groceries? 'No Thanks,' Says the 99 Percent
Filed under: Technology, Amazon.com, Food & Beverage, Wal-Mart, Spending Eric Risberg/AP By Krystina Gustafson Online shopping has encroached on bricks-and-mortar stores in nearly every aspect. But...
View ArticleIs Cheetah Mobile Following in the Footsteps of Qihoo 360?
Filed under: Investing Qihoo 360 and Cheetah Mobile operate in the same security application industry, with Qihoo being the market leader. Cheetah Mobile became a public company in May, and already...
View ArticleAn Update on Talisman Energy's Restructuring
Filed under: Investing The last time I wrote about Talisman Energy the company had just unveiled full-year 2013 results, and they were much worse than analyst expectations. However, the oil and gas...
View ArticleWhy Income Investors Should Avoid Royalty Trusts, and Better Alternatives
Filed under: Investing In an age of near-zero interest rates, yield starved income investors may be attracted to royalty trusts such as SandRidge Mississippian Trust I and SandRidge Mississippian Trust...
View ArticleWhat You Might Be Missing About Apple's Rally
Filed under: Investing When Apple makes headlines, a flurry of criticism inevitably follows. The topic du jour has to do with its considerable rally over the past year. Indeed, since bottoming out at...
View Article1 Simple Move to Protect Your Retirement Income From Future Food Inflation
Filed under: Investing Photo credit: Flickr/bark It's estimated that over the next 50 years farmers must produce more food than they've produced in the past 10,000 years. A worrisome combination of a...
View ArticleBank of America Corp's Big Settlement Has Screeched to a Halt. So What?
Filed under: Investing In the latest chapter of Bank of America's seemingly endless legal drama, it looks like the reports of an imminent $12 billion settlement with the Justice Department arrived too...
View ArticleThis Powerful Washington Figure Is Worried About Annaly Capital Management,...
Filed under: Investing Over the past few months, mortgage REITs like Annaly Capital Management , Invesco Mortgage Capital and Two Harbors have been using the Federal Home Loan Banking system to access...
View ArticlePrime Music: What You Need to Know About Amazon.com, Inc.'s New Streaming...
Filed under: Investing Source: Amazon. In less than one week, Amazon.com will unveil the mythical smartphone that it's been working on for years. Ahead of the event, Amazon has introduced its rumored...
View ArticleThe Dow at 17,000: Buy or Sell?
Filed under: Investing The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 65 points at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday. This movement follows yesterday's 102-point decline in the blue-chip index. The Dow has risen 155%...
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