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Despite remaining relatively stable in recent weeks, economic confidence is way down from a year ago, said a recent report from Gallup. Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index showed modest improvement up to -49 during the week ending October 9, up from -50 the previous week. According to Gallup, its Economic Confidence Index hit is down a [...]

– The major U.S. index futures are pointing to a higher open on Thursday, with sentiment getting a lift from the results of the Italian and Spanish bond auctions, which produced encouraging results. That said, domestic data released earlier in the day was not in line with buoyant indicators received in recent times, although they [...]

One of the best personal finance tasks I ever took on was building a personal net worth calculator. It was a simple little thing (in fact, I wrote a tutorial on how to build one in any spreadsheet program you have, very little knowledge required). All it did was add up all of my assets, [...]

Bad news for savers coming out of Washington: the Federal Open Market Committee met on Tuesday and decided against doing anything to change their monetary policy. The FOMC, the wing of the Federal Reserve tasked with making monetary policy decisions, cited a moderate pace of economic growth over coming quarters, and decided against taking any further [...]

It’s one thing to compare credit cards as you look for the best features of each new offer you receive in the mail, but it is another thing to review your own actions and make sure to control your spending on the credit cards you do own. When you take steps to control your credit [...]

– The major U.S. index futures are pointing to a higher opening on Friday, with sentiment getting a boost from the efforts underway in Europe to tackle the debt crisis. A domestic economic report released earlier in the day showed that the unemployment unexpectedly dropped notably, while the job growth was less than what economists [...]