Headline News Archive

2010

May

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• Senate votes for a clear credit score. Anyone rejected for a credit card, car loan or department store charge account has most likely discovered a frustrating aspect of the government-mandated, free credit

• Senate gets ready to act on financial regulations. Democratic leaders gave notice late Monday that they intend to wind down the weeks-long debate over new financial regulations, even as lawmakers continued to churn

• Spike in homeowners losing mortgage aid. Homeowners taking advantage of mortgage aid under a federal foreclosure-prevention plan are being dropped from the program at an increasing rate, potentially forcing more borrowers

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• Financial overhaul plans remain mostly intact. The Senate this week could hand President Obama his second major legislative victory of the year, both on administration priorities that seemed in doubt not

14

• Battle over financial reform pits auto dealers vs. military. The debate over the Senate's financial reform bill is setting up an unusual battle on Capitol Hill between two powerful groups: automobile dealers and the

• Foreclosures continue to rise as banks work on backlogs. More people lost their homes to foreclosure in April as banks worked through a backlog of troubled borrowers, according to data released Thursday. The number

09

• Expensive homes are falling prey to foreclosure. Heated pools, ocean views and media rooms are not what most people would expect to find in a foreclosed property, but more high-end homes — priced

08

• Homebuyers seeking credit are racing the clock. For thousands of home buyers who scrambled to meet the April 30 federal tax-credit deadline for completed contracts, a new challenge is looming: Can they nail

06

• Facebook glitch brings new privacy worries. For many users of Facebook, the world’s largest social network, it was just the latest in a string of frustrations. On Wednesday, users discovered

• Financial overhaul bill gets bipartisan push. In a rare show of bipartisanship, the Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the financial regulatory bill aimed at ensuring that taxpayers never

04

• How to buy a foreclosure. You want to buy a foreclosure? Remember, there are both great opportunities and great pressures and pitfalls in this market. First, you have to decide

02

• Quiz: How close are you to the financial edge?. April was financial literacy month. Did you learn anything? The anecdotal evidence doesn't look good. Americans are falling deeper into debt, and they are increasingly

01

• Liberal Senators propose credit card rate cap. Following a wave of new regulations aimed at curbing credit-card industry abuses, some liberal senators are hoping to breathe life into an old idea: capping

• Appraisal fraud jumps, despite tightened rules. For anyone who assumed that the toughened real-estate appraisal rules imposed on the mortgage market last year would mean less monkey business in home valuations,

April

30

• Planes de pensiones, en medio de una batalla. Firmas financieras quieren administrar su 401(k) mientras los empleadores tratan de evitarlo Las personas que se están cambiando de trabajo, son despedidas o está

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• Rush is on to claim home buyers tax credit. After breaking up with her longtime boyfriend and finding a job she loves in Denver, Quinn Kelsey decided last Friday to take advantage of the

• Financial reform debate begins in full Senate. Ending three straight days of solid opposition, Senate Republicans agreed Wednesday to start a full-scale debate on the most far-reaching proposals to toughen regulation of

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• Five key steps to buying first home. As a Realtor, Lacy Williams gives presentations to first-time home buyers about what to expect when buying a home. She often finds she must start

25

• Antes de rendirse y abandonar su casa... considere otras opciones. El embargo hipotecario no tiene por qué ser su única solución; el Tío Sam puede echarle una mano Millones de familias de clase

• Ocho estrategias que lo ayudarán a llenar la alcancía. La gente pasa mucho tiempo pensando en cómo hacerse más rica. Pero hay algo que a menudo pasa por alto: cómo exprimir

24

• Plan to speed recovery for some borrowers. Here's some good news for people who had to give the deed on their house back to the bank because of financial problems, or who

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• Cash for appliances program starts Thursday. The federal cash-for-clunkers program is so passe. Now the government is playing rebates-for-refrigerators and money-for-washing-machines. Last summer's federal program fueled vehicle sales and jump-started the

• US offers aid to those on eviction's edge. SAN MATEO, Calif. — Two years into a merciless downward spiral, Antonio Moore was threatened with living on the street. He had lost his $75,000-a-year job

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• 8 money missteps that can really hurt you. The road to financial hell is paved with alluring options: credit cards, payday loans, reverse mortgages, 401(k) raids and more. And even though parts of

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• These financial blogs are worth your time. After spending the bulk of my career writing solely for newspapers, I stepped into the blogosphere a year ago and discovered a whole new world