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Do You Want to Get Paid for Leaving Your Home?
The Obama administration has come up with a new plan to help the mortgage crisis. What does it entail and what does it mean for you?
Read →Dime Bank is offering a 2.50% APY 15-Month IRA CD. That's very competitive for a CD of that term.
Read →Forbes came out with their rankings of the richest people in the world. Mexican magnate Carlos Slim took the top spot, the first time since 1994 that either Bill Gates or Warren Buffet didn't top the list.
Read →For the first time since 2002, bank branch networks in the United States are getting smaller.
Read →Barclays Bank, the second largest bank in the United Kingdom, is apparently looking to buy a large US retail bank. Is your bank up for sale?
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8 Tips for Lowering Your Auto Insurance Rates
There are some substantial savings on auto insurance if you spend a little time to take advantage of the available auto insurance discounts. I've tried to save you a little time by putting together a list of potential discounts.
Read →The latest California driver to loose control of his Prius seems just a little too media savvy and attention hungry.
Read →NewDominion Bank out of Charlotte, NC is offering a competitive 1.5% APY savings account rate.
Read →The online banking service - GiftsforBanking.com - is offering competitive rates and features as part of a new program.
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Ten Ways to Reduce Your Credit Card Debt
It seems like more and more people are paying off their credit balances these days. Do you want to be one of them? If so, here are some tips to get you started.
Read →The municipal bond market remains very well bid, with torrid and unrelenting demand from retail and other clients supporting both low nominal yields and tight credit spreads, in particular within 15 years. Longer buyers remain a bit more diffident but still aggressive. We do note a dramatic increase in institutional gains taking last week that helped offset an overall softer tax-exempt new issue calendar, however, even Friday's pointed losses in the Treasury market were insufficient to budge long munis off their strong premium pricing.
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Does Spain's Experience Indicate that Solar's Day of Reckoning Here?
Venture capitalists in the US continue to throw money at the solar industry like there is no tomorrow, and the public listings of the solar companies remain dramatically overvalued. Is our government's misplaced incentive money to blame?
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Michigan Hit Hard with Mortgage Defaults
Many states are getting hit hard economically by the mortgage situation these days. Michigan is one of the hardest hit states due to the job loss and other conditions in the area.
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