Authors: Jeanette Torres
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Homeowners with an outstanding water bill or high property taxes are increasingly discovering why some are more than eager to sell their home to property-hungry investors.
Called the "other" foreclosure crisis, property tax lien sales are enabled by state and local laws that allow the sale...
Authors: Kelly Knaub
Jupiterimages/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Thanks to a new app launched by matchmaking website eHarmony, singles on dates headed downhill now have hope of pulling off a gracious early exit.
With the free iPhone app, dubbed Bad Date Rescue, you can arrange for your dreadful meet-ups to be interrupted by a phone call from a range of...
Authors: Kelly Knaub
Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- At least 400,000 email addresses and passwords of Yahoo Voices’ users, people authorized to post content on Yahoo, were stolen and revealed by hackers, Yahoo confirmed today.
“We confirm that an older file from Yahoo Contributor Network (previously Associated...
Authors: Kelly Knaub
Hemera/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- The markets were down for the sixth day in a row on Thursday. The Dow dropped 31 points, the Nasdaq lost 22 and the S&P gave up three points.
Unemployment claims hit a four-year low last week. Some automakers decided to skip their usual summer shutdowns to keep up with demand, which resulted in...
Authors: Joshua Cohan
Starbucks Corporation(EASLEY, S.C.) -- As the owner of a South Carolina funeral home, Chris Robinson is in the business of helping people grieve. This summer, he plans to do that with a little help from Starbucks.
Funeral-goers at the Robinson Funeral Home in Easley, S.C., will soon find baristas in Starbucks uniforms serving...
Authors: Joshua Cohan
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The average fixed mortgage rates reached all-time record lows again following June’s poor unemployment report.
Freddie Mac reported the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to 3.56 percent for the week ending July 12, from last week when it averaged 3.62 percent and a year ago when it was...
Authors: Joshua Cohan
United Continental Holdings(CHICAGO) -- United Airlines is ordering 150 brand new Boeing 737s worth $14 billion at list price, which is good news for workers in Washington State, where the planes are made.
The purchase includes 100 Boeing 737 MAX 9 and 50 737-900ERs, which are said to be 15 percent more fuel efficient than...
Authors: Joshua Cohan
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Three of the country’s most prominent minds on U.S. budgetary problems issued a stark warning to lawmakers today as Congress approaches what many have called a “fiscal cliff” of tax hikes and spending cuts that are set to take effect Jan. 1.
Erskine Bowles, who served as...
Authors: Joshua Cohan
Photodisc/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- A New York congressman and member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has introduced legislation to help keep families seated together on commercial flights.
The Families Flying Together Act of 2012 would require the U.S. Department of Transportation to direct each carrier...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
Creatas/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- For the first time since the deep slump began more than five years ago, a new report from the business information and analytics firm Core Logic says fewer Americans have negative equity in their homes.
In the first three months of the year, 11.4 million homeowners, or 23.7 percent of all...
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