Headline News Archive
2007
October
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- Knowing the rules results in tax savings. Achance remark on a column about year-round tax savings has prompted a few skeptical, if not downright cynical, responses. I mentioned that my wife, Georgina,…
- On taking early Social Security. The day that policy wonks warned about and politicians have tried to ignore is here: The nation's first baby boomer has signed up for Social…
- Fees jack up banks' bottom line. The news that Bank of America is jacking up its ATM fee in some locations for non-customers to $3 from $2 prompted the usual muttering…
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- Vultures circle over distressed properties. Call them grave dancers, vulture funds, turnaround specialists or the more euphemistic "opportunity investors." However you identify them, the deal is the same: When hyperactive…
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- Crash of '87: Could it happen again?. Wall Street loves its sayings. Buy low and sell high. Don't fight the tape. Don't try to catch a falling knife. A useful one now…
- Airlines squeeze fliers as profit soars. The nation's airlines were late more often this summer, lost more baggage and bumped more passengers off flights than in any summer this decade. They…
- New loan rules don't benefit all students. A new law will help a lot of struggling students and parents - but others will be very disappointed. The good news is very good:…
- Homeowners: Sell it yourself. The last time Sabrina Williams sold a home herself, she received a solid offer the first week, got her asking price of $319,000 and saved…
- El robo de identidad crece con rapidez. El robo de identidad fue el delito por el que se pusieron más denuncias en 2006 y el de más rápido crecimiento en Estados Unidos,…
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- Senator goes after cell phone fees, contracts. Some cell phone companies charge their users $100 to $200 to end a contract no matter what the reason and disguise their own charges as…
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- House votes to extend ban on Internet taxes. Fear about future tax revenue shortfalls at the state and local levels helped derail a congressional push Tuesday for a permanent federal ban on Internet…
- Time Warner customers misled by AT&T ad. An ad from AT&T that ran the other day in these pages and elsewhere warned that some Time Warner Cable customers are in danger of…
- Airlines may never achieve top customer service. Maybe all the hubbub about flight delays and shoddy service is beginning to register with the USA's big airlines. After cutting costs in Chapter 11…
- Extienden la veda al impuesto a la internet. La Cámara de Representantes de EEUU aprobó extender una prohibición de imponer un tributo al servicio de internet durante cuatro años en una votación que…
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- Home Insurers Canceling in East. It is 1,200 miles from the coastline where Hurricane Katrina touched land two years ago to the neat colonial-style home here where James Gray, a…
- Los negocios hispanos son los que más crecen. En EE.UU. hay alrededor de dos millones de negocios propiedad de hispanos que generan cerca de $300,000 millones anuales de ventas y para el año…
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- Peer-to-peer lending: a solution for strapped consumers. A YEAR AGO, Nicole Newberry was in a financial hole so deep that she had trouble making the minimum payments on her credit cards. Worse,…
- NYC study: Minorities pay more for mortgages. Home buyers in predominantly black and Hispanic neighborhoods in New York City were more likely to get their mortgages last year from a subprime lender…
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- When there's a will, there's a way online. John Chuang of South Pasadena, Calif., became a father in 2005, he and his wife, Sulynn, knew that they needed a will. But Mr. Chuang,…
- The owners who can't hire and fire. Investors may have hoped that the Securities and Exchange Commission would do the right thing and allow them a much more active role in governance…
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- Agency warns of cellphone scam. An e-mail warning consumers that cellphone numbers will soon be released to telemarketers is making the rounds again, and government officials have a key detail…
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- Countering credit card marketing on campus. Campus credit-card marketers are out of control and entrapping students into years of debt, say a national consumer group and a coalition of college officials…
- Industry alliance aims to prevent foreclosures. The Bush administration announced a new mortgage industry coalition on Wednesday aimed at helping homeowners avoid being trapped in a rising tide of foreclosures. Treasury…
- Insurer to pay up to $500,000 in probe. Insurer HealthMarkets — under investigation by 36 states and facing a lawsuit by the Massachusetts attorney general — has agreed to pay up to $500,000…
- Coalición busca evitar embargos de casas. Los principales actores del sector hipotecario en Estados Unidos, como son los bancos, los intermediarios inmobiliarios y la administración federal, han lanzado una campaña para…