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| No bank account? Get your tax refund on plastic
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| AP - A new Treasury Department program to give people without bank accounts faster access to their tax refunds will help some avoid costly short-term loans. But careless consumers could end up racking up fees and padding bank profits. -- read full article |
| Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:18:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Finance News |
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| AP - Coast Guard: no sign of oil leak after Gulf platform fire, but crews continue to monitor. -- read full article |
| Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:14:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Finance News |
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| Mortgage rates hit record low: Freddie Mac
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| Reuters - U.S. mortgage rates fell in the past week to the latest in a series of record lows as yields on government debt dropped, according to a survey released on Thursday by Freddie Mac, the second-largest U.S. mortgage finance company. -- read full article |
| Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:25:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Finance News |
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| The Next 4 Dot-Com Buyouts
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| The Motley Fool - Shares of Salary.com (Nasdaq: SLRY - News) -- a small provider of human resources applications on the cloud -- soared 43% yesterday, after agreeing to be acquired by larger rival Kenexa (Nasdaq: KNXA - News). -- read full article |
| Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:29:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Finance News |
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| How to Get a Government-Backed, Zero-Down-Payment Mortgage
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| U.S. News & World Report - More than four years after real estate values peaked, the historic plunge in home prices remains fresh in the minds of mortgage lenders. After taking painful losses on delinquent home loans, banks have imposed tougher standards--such as increased credit scores and higher down payment requirements--on applicants of all stripes. And as investors fled for the hills, the exotic mortgage products that helped fuel the real estate boom have largely disappeared from the private market. But that doesn't mean all buyers need a big pile of cash to snag a home loan. ... -- read full article |
| Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:13:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Finance News |
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| Summary Box: Mortgage rates hit low of 4.32 pct.
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| AP - RECORD LOWS: Mortgage rates fell to the lowest levels in decades for the tenth time in 11 weeks, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. The average rate for a 30-year fixed loan was 4.32 percent. The 15-year fixed loan hit 3.83 percent. -- read full article |
| Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:22:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Finance News |
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| 5 Tax Moves to Make Now
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| U.S. News & World Report - It may seem a bit strange to be talking about income taxes in September. There are, however, good reasons to think about taxes well before April 15. For starters, there are some big changes in the tax code that go into effect in 2011. Depending on your income tax bracket and investments, some simple planning now could save you a bundle later. -- read full article |
| Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:16:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Finance News |
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| The True Risk of Bond ETFs
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| The Motley Fool - In coming up with ways to protect their portfolios, many investors draw on lessons learned from their most recent mistakes. Unfortunately, most people right now are taking the lessons they learned from the 2008 bear market and buying bonds, which could easily prove to be far riskier than they thought. -- read full article |
| Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:14:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Finance News |
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| The Great Value Investors Are Heading West
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| The Motley Fool - When Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A - News) was buying railroad company Burlington Northern last December, Warren Buffett told Matt Rose: "I've seen what's been done here [in the U.S.]. I think I know how the country is going to develop. I think the West is going to do well. I'd rather be in the West than the East. So I really don't have much of a worry about that." -- read full article |
| Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:26:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Finance News |
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| 5 Ways to Simplify Your Personal Finances
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| U.S. News & World Report - If you're combining your life with a new spouse, moving from one house to another, or just frustrated with the amount of documentation you have filed (or unfiled) in your basement, it's a good time to simplify your finances. Simplification is not only practical, it is beautiful. This is the concept of kanso, a Japanese aesthetic usually applied to gardens. Through a stretch of the mind, we can apply this beauty to our lives and our finances. -- read full article |
| Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:42:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Finance News |
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| Why It's Harder to Be a Clueless Consumer
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| U.S. News & World Report - American consumers hate being told what to do, and to prove it, we routinely make choices that are irrational and counterproductive. We make impulse purchases we can't afford. We build bigger houses than we need, chaining ourselves to an onerous mortgage for years. We drive rugged, four-wheel-drive vehicles even though we never leave the pavement. We buy Snuggies. -- read full article |
| Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:54:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Finance News |
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