Headline News Archive

2012

March

11

• 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…

09

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

08

• 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…

• 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…

07

• 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…

06

• 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,…

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…

• 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,…

• 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…

01

• 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…

February

29

• 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…

28

• 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…

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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…

24

• 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…

23

• '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…

22

• The tax break that millions miss out on. There's a popular tax break out there that paid more than 26 million workers a total of nearly $59 billion last year. Yet as many…

• Survey: ID theft on the rise again, card victims jump by 2 million annually. Identity thieves have regained the upper hand, suggests a new survey released Wednesday by fraud research firm Javelin Strategy & Research. The firm's annual survey…

• Consumer inquiry focuses on bank overdraft fees. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is beginning an inquiry into how banks levy overdraft fees they charge customers who bounce checks or withdraw more than…

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• Working long hours? Here's how it may be costing you. More Americans are at work, according to the latest jobs report, but they're spending more to be there. Be it grocery shopping, housekeeping, or the…

• Gay marriage debate is about money, too. Here's a two-question quiz: • If Pat and Chris want to form a business partnership in your home state, should their sexes play any role…

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• IRS faces surge in identity theft tax fraud. The Internal Revenue Service is grappling with a surge in identity theft-based tax fraud as scamsters take advantage of web-based resources including electronic filing. Identity…

• Community banks team up to fight the megabanks. Faced with growing competition from the likes of Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, more than 100 community banks have joined forces to take…

• Congress will auction public airwaves to pay for benefits. The need for revenue to partly cover the extension of the payroll tax cut and long-term unemployment benefits has pushed Congress to embrace a generational…