Headline News Archive

2018

August

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• Online gamers pressured eight-year-old to share mom's information. An eight-year-old Minnesota boy is just one of millions of players obsessed with the video game Fortnite. But for his Lakeville family, the survival video

• That annoying robocall could be about your student loans. Many of the millions of robocalls Americans recieve each month are about debt. Student loan borrowers are increasingly a target of these calls and advocates

• Los servicios de pago entre pares generalmente son seguros, pero los consumidores deben estar conscientes de los riesgos. Sencillez, conveniencia y rapidez. Se encuentran entre las razones principales por las que los consumidores han aceptado con mucho entusiasmo los servicios de pago de

• Negras y latinas reciben los cheques más bajos. El 7 de agosto es el día que marca cuánto más tiene que trabajar una mujer negra para cobrar lo

• 5 razones para usar un monedero móvil. Hoy en día, apenas entras en una farmacia o tienda vas a ver la opción de pagar usando un monedero m

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• In expensive cities, rents fall for the rich, rise for the poor. Since last summer, rents have fallen for the highest earners while increasing for the poorest in San Francisco, Atlanta, Nashville, Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver, Pittsburgh, Portland

• Need a loan? Your boss may have you covered. Your employer might contribute to your retirement account or help pay for health insurance. But will it help you set up an emergency fund? Or

• Bankruptcy booms among older Americans. For a rapidly growing share of older Americans, traditional ideas about life in retirement are being upended by a dismal reality: bankruptcy. he signs of

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• I got scammed buying tickets off Craigslist. Britney Spears had long been on my concert bucket list. Two hours before curtain call for her sold-out show in Washington, I found

• Counting on a tax refund next year? Double-check your withholdings now. Every tax season, a lot of people feel like they’ve hit the lottery -- except it’s their own money they are

• A smarter way to think about financial decisions. It’s as simple as reframing how you think about your money.

• Colleges that leave students with poor job prospects will evade penalties. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is planning to rollback an Obama-era crackdown on for-profit colleges that leave students in debt and with poor job opportunities, The

• Con robots, Walmart busca agilizar las compras. Walmart ha iniciado pruebas de carritos de compras automáticos que recopilan productos comestibles de sus bodegas, en un intento de agilizar el proceso

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• Locked out of bank account over citizenship questions. To Josh Collins and his wife, Jessica Salazar Collins, something seemed off about the Bank of America mailer. They had each banked with the

• Wells Fargo to pay $2.09 billion to settle probe into mortgage abuses. Ten years after faulty mortgages upended the global financial system, Wells Fargo & Co. agreed to pay $2.09 billion to settle a U.S. investigation into

• The 'Mulvaney discount': Shrinking fines for law-breaking companies. There’s a hot new trend in Donald Trump’s Washington: the “Mulvaney discount.” After pausing enforcement work when Acting Director

• As affordable housing crisis grows, HUD sits on the sidelines. The country is in the grips of an escalating housing affordability crisis. Millions of low-income Americans are paying 70 percent or more of their incomes for

• Childhood cancer survivors face ‘financial toxicity’. A new study by investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital suggests that many survivors of childhood cancer are struggling with the economic consequences,

• Pregunta sobre ciudadanía preocupa a clientes de Bank of America. Cuando algunos clientes del Bank of America (BofA) de Los Ángeles se enteraron que posiblemente la institución financiera estaría preguntando

• Cómo la CFPB planifica reducir su misión regulatoria. El director interino de la Oficina de Protección Financiera del Consumidor [CFPB] describió una misión regulatoria menos agresiva para la

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• Trump policy increases "short term health insurance" plans. The Trump administration issued a final rule on Wednesday that clears the way for the sale of many more health insurance policies that do not

• The top 10 things consumers complained about in 2017. False advertising of new and used cars, shoddy home improvement work, and deceptive retail sales tactics lead the towering list of complaints that consumers submitted

• Consumer agency hated by Trump, GOP has backing of most Americans. The Trump administration and Republican lawmakers have long viewed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a rogue agency, dedicated solely to preventing decent, hard-working businesses

• Plan de salud de Trump, más barato que el de Obama. El gobierno del presidente Donald Trump allanó el terreno el miércoles para que las aseguradoras vendan planes de salud a corto plazo

• La nueva meta de las marcas: convertirse en un estilo de vida. A principios de este verano, el nuevo director de Mercadotecnia de Chipotle esbozó una visión ambiciosa para la cadena de burritos y