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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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