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Consumers need to keep their guard up as financial institutions increasingly impose new fees and charges.

Congress has been working hard lately as one trillion dollar legislative decree after another has "solved" the banking crisis, the global warming crisis and the foreclosure crisis. In between all of this, an almost trillion dollar stimulus plan was passed to solve the economic crisis of declining GDP growth and job losses. Now, as we enter ...

Travel insurance can have its benefits, but often it overlaps with protection you're getting elsewhere.

Nationalised lender Northern Rock has started offering mortgages to existing customers for the first time since late 2007, it emerged today.

Summer 2009: The surf's up, but not vacation home prices. Friday Jul 3, 2009 The summer of 2009 is shaping up to be an historical window of opportunity for buying fun and affordable vacation homes.

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" It's by far the hottest controversy in real estate this summer, and it could directly affect the value of your house - " probably negatively - " by tens of thousands of dollars.

TORONTO a ' More than half a million Canadians have fallen behind on their credit payments as economic conditions deteriorate, a survey has found.

That old saying a oecash is king'' certainly rings true these days. Investors can't seem to get enough of it, which ultimately could be bad news for the stock market and the economy.

This image provided by the National Archives and Records Administration shows the first of the three-page patent application #821,393, dated May 21, 1903, submitted by Orville and Wilbur Wright to the U.S. Patent Office for their Flying Machine.

BERKELEY - Business consultant Katrina Kennedy has taken her young son out of preschool and put a family vacation on hold.

HOME OWNERS are cashing in on record low interest rates to pay off their mortgages at the fastest rate since the 1970s, figures showed yesterday.

The number of pensioners being declared bankrupt has soared by 164% during the past five years, research has shown.

In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don't have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence.

The Founding Fathers left one legacy not celebrated on Independence Day but which affects us all.

For much the same reason, moderate changes in corporate sales can lead to huge swings in earnings.

The first decade of the 21st century is almost over, and for most folks, the end can't come too soon.

When President Barack Obama made the "Cash for Clunkers" bill law on June 24, supporters like Senator Carl Levin hailed it as a great way to modernize America's car fleet and "accelerate national economic recovery." But don't expect either to happen in any meaningful way.

The recession is making the sandwich generation feel a financial pinch. But they should not skimp on retirement savings.

The business of managing wealth has lost a lot of its pizzazz, and Wall Street is no longer upbeat on the sector.