Jump start your morning with the most important personal finance news and analysis with Your Money Select, an easy-to-read daily email newsletter.What is it? A daily roundup of top headlines, analysis, and video covering everything you need to know for your personal finances. Signing up is quick and easy. Use the form below to enter your information then click the "Sign Up" button.Engineers...
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For many small businesses, the path to offering health insurance is strewn with high costs, tough tradeoffs and uncertainty, Kristen Gerencher writes in her Vital Signs column. “It’s going to be shared pain all the way around, but at least we’re giving them more choices,” one small-business CEO says.Elsewhere in Personal Finance news on MarketWatch, Christopher Hinton reports that Americans are getting...
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you’re planning on flying over the Thanksgiving holiday, expect your plane to be full: Nearly 24 million passengers are expected to board flights during the 12-day period that begins on Nov. 16, as Jennifer Waters writes in her Consumer Confidential column. So get to the airport early and pack a carry-on.Read more Personal Finance news in today’s pages, including why the fiscal cliff would raise the...
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can’t all be top performers on the job all the time. But, Ruth Mantell writes today, smart choices and short-term sacrifice can help us toward bigger salary gains and job opportunities. The key is an ability to think long-term: setting goals that allow you to vary how much effort you put in at work, cutting back on leisure and family time when necessary.Also in today’s Personal Finance news on Mar...
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alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others." -Come across personal finance news, articles or blog posts that you really liked and want to share? Place them here.“We are canceling the remaining amount you owe Chase!” says a letter that JPMorgan Chase sent recently to thousands of home loan borrowers. “You are approved for a full principal forgiveness of your Home...
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Today, MarketWatch’s Barb Kollmeyer talks to five seasoned professionals who are based outside of the U.S., from London to Hong Kong, about their biggest stock-market worries. European debt troubles, the fragility of U.S. economic growth and oil prices top their list. They also share their defensive strategies.Also in today’s Personal Finance news on MarketWatch, Jennifer Waters takes a look at how...
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Taking a loan from your own 401(k) account has some advantages, Robert Powell writes, but it can affect your retirement savings in unexpected ways. While the loans are a good source of cheap credit, it’s money that won’t keep growing for your retirement, and when you miss out on valuable compounding you may end up with a smaller nest egg.Also in the day’s Personal Finance news, Freddie Mac reports...
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2013.According to the guidelines, EPFO should announce rate of interest on provident fund deposits before the beginning of each financial yearThe steep sell-off in gold prices has been unfathomable, with the yellow metal breaching below $1,430 per ounce, the lowest level since February 2011The reading supports our view of a gradual uptick in activity, becoming more pronounced in 2H2013These investments...
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Thomasson, 52, may pass onmore than $100 million to heirs using an estate-planningstrategy for avoiding gift and estate taxes.As nerve-racking as he finds thedebt-ceiling negotiations, Chris Rainbolt, 36, hasn’t shiftedhis portfolio in anticipation of a possible U.S. governmentdefault.Money-market mutual funds would beforced to create capital buffers equaling 1 percent to 3 percentof assets to protect...
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