Finance
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Homebuyers hunker down as housing drag may worse nAug 22, 2011 12:00 am - Sanjay Jain called his real estate broker four days ago to cancel a deal to buy a three-bedroom home in Folsom, Calif., unnerved by another plunge in the most volatile e...
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Interest rates 101: How banks set your ratesAug 21, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — Interest rates on credit cards and mortgages seem to move in mysterious ways. When Standard & Poor's downgraded the country's debt rating, for example, most e...
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Islamic banks tout Ramadan discountsAug 21, 2011 6:00 am - Islamic banks are providing discounts and boosting advertising during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as sales of Shariah-compliant bonds decline. Abu Dhabi Islamic Ban...
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A look at the best options for stashing your cashAug 21, 2011 6:00 am - Cash is king again for many unsettled investors. The crisis in confidence that has spooked investors this summer is prompting many to pull their money from the stock mar...
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Boomers to spend billions fighting agingAug 21, 2011 5:00 am - Baby boomers heading into what used to be called retirement age are providing a 70 million-member strong market for legions of companies, entrepreneurs and cosmetic surg...
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Desire for control sends consumers to food co-opsAug 21, 2011 5:00 am - Cooperative grocery stores have been on a boom-then-bust cycle since they first emerged after the Great Depression. And the cycle at the moment is back to boom. As more ...
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Selling burns 401(k) savers who dump stocks, expert saysAug 21, 2011 5:00 am - U.S. investors who sold equities in their retirement accounts during market volatility in 2008 and 2009 did worse than those who stayed in stocks, Fidelity Investments s...
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Tribune creditors may sue former stockholders to get their moneyAug 19, 2011 12:00 am - Edward Jones, a St. Louis-based investment firm, is warning former Tribune Co. employees, retirees and other shareholders who participated in a 2007 stock buyback that t...
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Treasury yields sink to record lowsAug 18, 2011 12:00 am - NEW YORK — Weak economic reports are driving Treasury prices higher and pushing yields to record lows. The yield on the 10-year Treasury briefly dipped below 2 percent ...
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Fund investors yank $40 billion in one weekAug 17, 2011 12:00 am - Rattled investors pulled more than $40 billion from stock and bond funds in a single week this month as fears about the global economy intensified. The total of $40.3 bi...