GET.com: Consumers Gaining Confidence In January

GET.com Financial News & Opinions View this email in your browser Consumers Gaining Confidence In January The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index improved somewhat in January after strengthening in December, with the index up 1.8 percentage points, from 96.3 to 98.1. The index arbitrarily sets the reading from the year 1985 to 100. The Expectations Index gained 2.9 percentage points in... Read in browser » What Facebook Has To Say About Millennials And Money Nearly 90% of millennials are saving money and many are using Facebook to educate themselves to make more informed financial decisions, according to a white paper released by the social media colossus this week. The Facebook study looked at millennials between the ages of 21 and 34 and used data... Read in browser » Home Prices Now Higher Than Pre-Crash Peak US home prices rose 0.5% in November according to the latest House Price Index released by the Federal Housing Finance Agency released today. That increase makes for a 1% increase in home prices, when combined with the 0.5% rise reported by the FHFA for October. The FHFA calculated the monthly... Read in browser » White House Announces New Retirement Plan Proposals The White House announced today a set of proposals to make retirement accounts more portable and accessible, including automatic IRA enrollment and help for the self-employed. The goal is to respond to today's economic reality that workers change jobs often. These new rules will make it easier for... Read in browser » Urban, Suburban Or Rural – Does It Matter To Your Web-Based Business In The Internet Age? Location was the golden rule of business before the late 1990s, when having a downtown office or a store in the mall put you where the people were. While there were always a few large phone, mail or catalog based businesses which could afford to set up headquarters in rural areas, for most people... Read in browser »   Recent Articles: Few New Real Estate Jobs Predicted For 2016 HeForShe Releases First Gender Parity Report Youth Unemployment Highest In Chicago, New York And Los Angeles Proposed Trade Pact May Slow American Factory Hiring GET.com's Guide To Paying For Your Child's Education Copyright © 2016 GET.com, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you subscribed on GET.com (previously known as DailyMarkets.com). Our mailing address is: GET.com 14 Wall St 20 Fl New York, NY 10005 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list