This Household Item Will Save You Big -- Savings Experiment
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View ArticleMortgage Rates Drift Lower as Housing Market Struggles
Filed under: Mortgages, Refinancing, Housing Market, Home Buying, Interest Rates Brian Chan/Alamy Average U.S. rates on fixed mortgages declined this week, hovering near historically low levels....
View ArticleThe Secret Behind How I'm Saving 40% of My Pay
Filed under: Personal Finance, Budgeting, How to Save Money, Planning Blend Images/Alamy By Lauren Bowling In our Money Mic series, we hand over the podium to people with controversial views about...
View ArticleFour Ways We Feed a Family of Five for $575 a Month
Filed under: Family Money, Shopping, Budgeting Dave and Les Jacobs/Blend Images Simply put, grocery shopping is expensive. The Department of Agriculture says that groceries can average $600 to nearly...
View ArticleIt's Summer, and Scammers Are Calling Seniors
Filed under: Consumer Ally, Consumer Issues, Consumer Protection, Ripoffs & Scams, Internet Fraud, Financial Education Maximult/Shutterstock Seniors are among the most common victims of con...
View ArticleAfter Market: Fear of Fed Action Makes Investors Skittish
Filed under: Market News, IPOs, Investing Worries about interest rates rising earlier than anticipated sent Wall Street lower Thursday, but GoPro flew high on its first day of trading. Comments by the...
View ArticleAfter Market: Late Rally Saves Investors from a Down Day
Filed under: Market News, Stock Markets, Investing Stocks drifted mainly lower throughout the day, but in the last hour of trading Friday, the Dow and the S&P 500 staged a turnaround, and all three...
View Article3 Biotech Stocks with Jaw-Dropping Growth Potential
Filed under: Investing One key reason the biotech industry has soared over the past two years is that a number of companies gained regulatory approvals for drugs with stunning commercial potentials....
View Article3 Biotech Stocks with Catalysts Incoming: Spectrum, Orexigen, and Avanir
Filed under: Investing With so many FDA decisions coming out in a few months, it is an exciting time for biotech investors. For all three of these stocks -- Spectrum Pharmaceuticals , Orexigen...
View ArticleBuy, Sell, or Hold This Generic Pharma Titan?
Filed under: Investing Teva Pharmaceuticals is the world's largest generic-drug maker. Somewhat ironically for a company that specializes in generics, its business is struggling at the moment as its...
View ArticleShould Dividend Investors Eject Merck & Co., Inc?
Filed under: Investing Merck has one of the largest dividends in health care, but does that make it one of the sector's top dividend stocks? In this video, Motley Fool Healthcare analyst David...
View ArticleShould Dividend Investors Eject Johnson & Johnson?
Filed under: Investing Healthcare conglomerate Johnson & Johnson is many things, a dividend aristocrat, a blue chip stock, and a Dow component, but does that make it one of the sector's top...
View ArticleIs GlaxoSmithKline's Dividend Safe?
Filed under: Investing GlaxoSmithKline is one of the globe's largest drug companies. The company generates more than $40 billion in annual sales and, given that its dividend yield is nearly 5%, its...
View ArticleInvestors Need to Keep an Eye Out for This Developing Trend
Filed under: Investing Big tobacco is used to threats from government policies, regulations, and taxes. So Philip Morris and British American , the world's largest two publicly traded tobacco...
View ArticleSocial Security: 3 Simple Charts That Will Help You Decide When to Take Benefits
Filed under: Investing Deciding when to take Social Security benefits is one of the most important financial decisions you'll ever make. Among other things, you should consider when you'll need the...
View ArticleDoes Your Portfolio Need a Woman's Touch?
Filed under: Investing Investors in PepsiCo , Lockheed Martin , and Procter & Gamble may reap the benefits of being ahead of a new trend in investing: the "gender lens." With a focus on companies...
View ArticleWhy Amedisys, LightInTheBox, and Manitowoc Are Today's 3 Best Stocks
Filed under: Investing The broad-based S&P 500 may continue to pull rabbits out of its economic hat in order to justify new all-time highs, but this week went to the bears. The iconic index...
View ArticleDo These Big Yields Make Teekay LNG Partners or Navios Maritime Partners a Buy?
Filed under: Investing Credit: Roy Luck via Flickr. Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, offer a convenient way to invest in sectors or niches that interest you. If you'd like to add some international...
View ArticlePopeyes Louisiana Kitchen Seriously Threatens Yum! Brands
Filed under: Investing Source: Wikimedia Commons I still remember the first time I curiously popped into a Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen about a decade ago. It looks kind of like a Yum! Brands' KFC, has a...
View ArticleIs Starbucks' Fizzio a Nail in SodaStream's Coffin?
Filed under: Investing The handcrafted cold-beverage war is heating up. A few months ago, soda king Coca-Cola announced a sizable investment in at-home coffee-brewing-system maker Keurig Green Mountain...
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