Finance
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Ways to avoid or reduce the biggest bank feesOct 23, 2011 5:00 am - From Occupy Wall Street protesters to retirees, consumers are riled up about bank fees like few other personal finance issues in memory. Bank of America’s announcement o...
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Free necklaces and shipping for holiday shoppers?Oct 23, 2011 5:00 am - NEW YORK — Retailers are so desperate this holiday season that they’re willing to lose money to get you to spend yours. Take online jeweler Stauer. It’s offering a $249 ...
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Social Security raise welcomed in tough economyOct 23, 2011 5:00 am - Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — For some, the just-announced increase in Social Security checks amounts to an extra meal out, a little more cash for clothes or ...
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Occupy Wall Street becomes NYC tourist stopOct 23, 2011 5:00 am - NEW YORK — Some women from Kansas were taking in as much of New York City as they could Wednesday. They hopped on a subway, watched the construction at the World Trade C...
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Debt deadlines could bring more market volatilityOct 23, 2011 5:00 am - BOSTON — Investors have barely had a chance to recover from a summer of anxiety. And now three congressional deadlines loom before the end of the year. Each has the pote...
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Dognapping up in a ‘ruff’ economyOct 23, 2011 5:00 am - According to the American Kennel Club, the number of stolen dogs increased by almost 50 percent to 224 cases during the first seven months of 2011, compared with the sam...
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Peoria pawn shops enjoy resurgenceOct 23, 2011 5:00 am - PEORIA — A Kodiak bear-skin rug. A 1958 Barbie doll, still in the box. Hand-carved wooden squirrel calls. Local pawn shops are a mecca of the odd and unexpected. Once th...
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Domino’s ‘brutally honest’ ads offset slow consumer spendingOct 23, 2011 5:00 am - Fast-food restaurants are benefiting from consumer concerns about another recession, as persistently high unemployment and weak confidence constrain discretionary spendi...
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Crown Prince Sultan’s death starts Saudi successionOct 22, 2011 12:00 am - Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has died, setting in motion succession plans for the world’s largest oil exporter. Prince Nayef, born in 1934, i...
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Despite its financial problems, states still want SearsOct 20, 2011 5:45 am - Sears Holdings Corp. has lost about $314 million during the first half of this year, has been criticized by Wall Street and constantly reinvents itself to lure back rece...