from Moneywatch Personal Finance
The next few weeks are crucial for home buyers, who need to close on a house before the end of June to claim the federal home-buyer tax credit. A hiccup during the next month could cost a buyer thousands of dollars.
from Moneywatch Personal Finance
Most U.S. stocks end the week with very small gains after a fairly volatile week that was marked by more worries about European sovereign debt and unhappiness about the oil spill in the Gulf.
from Moneywatch Personal Finance
Despite low mortgage rates and reduced home prices, an increasing percentage of consumers say they believe renting is a better choice than owning a home in the current real-estate market, according to a survey from the National Apartment Association, released this week.
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from Moneywatch Personal Finance
The London interbank offered rate, used by banks to lend to each other in dollars, is tied to variable-rate loans in the United States and is hitting 10-month highs. Should you refinance? How should you plan ahead? Andrea Coombes reports.
from Moneywatch Personal Finance
Looks like gasoline prices will be on the low side this weekend, and maybe even through June, but whatever money you save at the pump probably won’t make up for what you lost in the stock market.
from MintLife Personal Finance News & Advice
Americans scaled back their discretionary spending in 2009 — but there’s only so long you can last without that much-needeed caffeine boost. After a recession-fueled lull, Mint.com found, spending in coffee shops has rebounded steadily over the last few months. Coffee lovers have increased the frequency of their coffee-shop [...]
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The cost of college education steadily creeps up every year, burdening students ever more heavily with student loans – not to mention the credit card debt that most have piled up by the time they graduate. But one college near Branson, Missouri, is like no other: it’s free. [...]
from MintLife Personal Finance News & Advice
What you do with your money in your 20s, when you’re fresh out of school and establishing good credit, is very different from how you handle it in your 40s, when you’re planning for retirement and your kids’ college tuition. How to best manage your credit and finances? According [...]
from Moneywatch Personal Finance
Not even a warning from regulators has quelled the gusher of money flowing into stocks that purportedly are going to clean up, financially speaking, from the Deepwater Horizoin crisis.
from Moneywatch Personal Finance
The House of Representatives voted Friday, 215 to 204, to extend unemployment insurance benefits through November as part of a wide-ranging bill that includes a tax hike on hedge-fund managers plus the renewal of a slew of expired middle-class tax perks.
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