News

2012

March

14

• Hay más opciones para enviar dinero al exterior. Para las personas que mandan dinero a sus familias en el extranjero los servicios han mejorado, pero es más difícil encontrar la mejor oferta. Cada 15 días, Rosa Posada envía el corazón a Guatemala. Sus…

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• The pros and cons of ditching cash for electronic currency. David Wolman can envision a time when we won’t need to use cash. In his cashless society, people can text money. But I’m not buying it. Didn’t we learn something from the Great Recession, when…

• Una dieta de datos para combatir la factura del celular. Parece que los planes de datos ofrecidos por los operadores de telefonía celular son cada vez más caros. Además, algunas empresas han decidido reducir la velocidad de conexión de los usuarios que más red usan.…

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• Car-rental firms, insurers vary on loss-of-use policies. Ernie Tamminga was in Tucson recently for a family reunion. While there, he rented a car. And, like all rental-car customers, he was offered insurance by the company, Dollar Rent a Car, in case of…

• 4 summer travel savings myths busted. I love summertime. It always reminds me of corn on the cob, burgers on the grill, homemade ice cream, and, I suppose, this is where I should mention trying to fit into last year's bathing…

• Gas prices must come down, consumers say. Consumers fretting about soaring gasoline prices say President Obama and Congress must act to keep them from rising further, a Gallup Poll finds. An overwhelming number of consumers — 85% — say Obama and Congress…

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• Best credit card for small business. About 37% of business owners are using credit to cover some of their costs, reports the National Small Business Association. The optimal card for your operation depends on how you'll use it. If you'll carry…

• More $7 checking account fees for Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo will start charging $7 a month for checking accounts in six more states, expanding on its efforts to do away with free checking accounts altogether. While Wells Fargo (WFC, Fortune 500) stopped offering…

07

• How e-tailers are charging you. This video from CNN details the anti-consumer practice of dynamic pricing.

• How to haggle like the pros. Sometimes it pays to think like a car salesman. They know their bottom line and how much they can afford to bend, how to use delaying tactics and how to get people to cave more…

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• Credit reports to screen job applicants. About four years ago, hiring managers began asking recruiter Chris Ball to start screening prospective employees in a new way: "They'd call up and say, 'Don't send us anyone with a bankruptcy in the past…

02

• Execs are just like you: They don't like their jobs, either. If you feel stuck in a job you don’t like, maybe you can take comfort in the fact that the big boss may well be in the same boat. A new global survey of business…

• Banks' fees pay off — for credit unions. Consumers fed up with the rising tide of bank fees helped the nation's credit unions more than double their number of new customers last year, new figures show. More than 1.3 million Americans opened new…

• Should the government give colleges a value report card?. Forget the old comic book collection in the attic or the cabinet full of new-in-box Star Wars collectibles -- for middle-class Americans looking to build a secure, stable financial life, there are three traditional investments:…

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• Bank of America weighs fee revamp. Bank of America Corp. is working on sweeping changes that would require many users of basic checking accounts to pay a monthly fee unless they agree to bank online, buy more products or maintain certain…

February

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• Leap day money: Six fun financial facts from Feb. 29. Leap Day is essentially an astronomical cheat used to keep the Gregorian calendar synced up with the Earth's orbit. Yet while it's only a quarter as common as the other days of the year, it…

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• Bank fees prompt more to open accounts elsewhere. New fees led to an increase in the number of customers who switched banks in 2011, according to a J.D. Power and Associates survey released Monday. Of consumers surveyed, 9.6% switched banks in 2011, up…

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• Why it's so hard to transfer cash to your friends. A few weeks ago, at a dinner with a dozen or so friends, the check arrived and the usual payment scrum ensued, with cash being passed back and forth across the table. Except for one…

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• More than 1.4 million families live on $2 a day per person. The number of families living on $2 or less per person per day for at least a month in the USA has more than doubled in 15 years to 1.46 million. That's up from 636,000…

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• 'Facebook score' to screen applicants. You already have an "insurance score." You have an "Employment Credit Score." There's even a "MedFICO," which attempts to predict whether you’ll actually pay your doctor’s bills. Now that a "Facebook score" has been invented,…