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In a low-rate world, here's how savers can help themselves
You'd think that $10 trillion would merit a little more respect. That's the total now sitting in bank savings accounts, savings certificates and money market mutual funds. And it's earning an extraordinarily tiny return for the American consumers and...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Financial Markets, Mutual Funds, Marketing, Credit Ratings
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Fed: Rate hike unlikely in near term
Banks have been boosting APRs to protect their profits from cardholder delinquencies spurred by the economic downturn and consumer friendly legislation set for enactment next year. Additionally, issuers have increasingly turned to variable rate offers...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Ben Bernanke, Credit and Debt
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As interest rates fall back near zero, there aren't many happy returns
AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. is finally becoming a nation of savers. Now if only we could get something for our money. Interest rates are sinking to near zero for the first time since last year's financial meltdown, dampening spending as Americans earn...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Banking, Economic Indicator, Moody's Corporation, Personal Income
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Senate panel will take up Bernanke's nomination to second Fed term on December 3
AP Economics WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's nomination to a second term will be the subject of a Senate Banking Committee hearing next month, the panel's chairman said Friday. President Barack Obama nominated Bernanke to another four-...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, National Government, Alan Greenspan, Financial Markets, Barack Obama
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Business events and economic reports scheduled for the coming week
WASHINGTON — National Association of Realtors releases existing home sales for September, 10 a.m. WASHINGTON — Ken Feinberg, Special Master for Executive Compensation, at the National Press Club at noon. CAMDEN, N.J. — Campbell Soup...Tags: Economic Indicator, Campbell Soup Company, Medtronic Incorporated, Sales, Mortgages
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Dollar continues to rise, with Treasury yields near year lows, as investors pare risk
AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) — The safe-haven dollar further strengthened Friday and Treasury yields hovered around their lows for the year as worries about the economy in 2010 diminished traders' appetites for risky bets. After Lehman Brothers collapsed in...Tags: Essex (Middlesex, Connecticut), Money and Monetary Policy, Banking, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Bank of America Corp.
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Calif. Unemployment Rate Hits 12.5 Percent
Associated PressSAN FRANCISCO -- California's unemployment rate rose to 12.5 percent in October to set another modern record, even though more than 25,000 Californians found jobs, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday. October's job gains came...Tags: Economic Indicator, Business, Car Allowance Rebate System (2009), Hilda Solis, U.S. Postal Service
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Economic refrain: 'We're forever blowing bubbles'
Thursday's stock market decline was just what Ben Bernanke needed. If people keep bidding up stocks with the cheap money he's handing out, he'll go down in history as the dumbest central banker ever, the one who blew a new investment bubble while he...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Ben Bernanke, T. Rowe Price, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), T. Rowe Price Group Incorporated
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Americans are saving more but don't have much to show for it
By Stevenson Jacobs The United States is finally becoming a nation of savers. Now, if only we could get something for our money. Interest rates are sinking to near zero for the first time since last year's financial meltdown, dampening spending as...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Banking, Personal Income, Government Debt, Retirement
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Seeing red over overdraft charges
Phyllis Monteferante is a Pompano Beach grandmother. And she, like thousands of South Floridians, is angry over her bank's overdraft-services policy. – about banks.
Monteferante's 17-year-old grandson, who had just opened his first checking account...Tags: National Government, Lawyers, Banking, Wells Fargo & Co., Government
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US House committee sets fees on big firms and calls for audit of secretive Federal Reserve
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — Taking aim at Wall Street and the U.S. central bank, an important House committee voted Thursday to assess fees on large financial firms to pay for the failure of their peers and to require a sweeping congressional audit of the...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, National Government, Luis V Gutierrez, Barack Obama, Ron Paul
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House panel wants Federal Reserve's books scrutinized
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Financial Services Committee has voted to pull the curtain on the normally secretive Federal Reserve by subjecting the nation's central bank to a sweeping congressional audit. The provision would direct the Government...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Economic Policy
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