4 Ways to Stop Using Your Credit Cards
While credit cards are incredibly handy, there’s a fine line between using them to supplement your financial situation and relying on them to bail you out of a difficult financial situation. The more you use your credit cards, the higher chance you have of being trapped into a dangerous cycle of debt. If you’re looking to reduce your reliance on your credit cards and improve your finances, here are 4 simple ways to break the habit for... [Continue Reading]
Safe Investments: Precious Metals Protect Your Dollars From Inflation
The stock market is constantly up and down. Companies are going under regularly as scandals are exposed and the economy stagnates. Those who have invested in those companies are left holding a worthless piece of paper when the company goes belly up. When you have invested a significant amount of money into something, and you are left with nothing, you quickly lose faith in the system you used to count on to provide for your living and... [Continue Reading]
5 Benefits of Investing in Green Home Improvements
There is no doubt that going green can both save you money and decrease your carbon footprint, but what about making some environmentally friendly choices inside your home? Making a few “green” upgrades to your home doesn’t generally need to cost an arm and a leg. In the long run you will make your money back from not only increased savings on your energy bill, but also tax breaks and other monetary incentives for making more energy... [Continue Reading]
Is It Better to Rent Your Home or Sell It When You Relocate?
So after several months of searching, you’ve finally found your dream home. The negotiations are complete, the closing process looks like it will be smooth sailing, and your kids are already fighting over bedrooms. But what to do with the home you’re leaving? In many cases you’ll have to sell it just to afford the new place and the move. But if money isn’t quite that tight, you’ll have some additional options. Some people... [Continue Reading]
Top Tips For Reducing Debt
Debt has been a big problem for many people in recent years. Before the credit crisis, many people were too liberal with their borrowing and banks were too liberal with their lending, and now many of us are strapped with the burden of debt. We must now take austere measures and reduce our debts; this guide takes a look at the best debt management tips to help you reduce your debt and live a more prosperous financial future. Assess Your Position ... [Continue Reading]
Choosing the Right Type of Online Investment
Online investments are an attractive option for many consumers who are looking to broaden the scope of their investment opportunities. Online investing offers global opportunities, increased flexibility, and usually means investors are able to pay lower transaction fees than they would have with a broker. In addition, online investors are able to take advantage of numerous web tools which will help them to independently track and manage their... [Continue Reading]
When Love and Hate Collide — How to avoid choosing the wrong business partner
Investing in a business is a real venture, but sometimes the person you consider going into business with can be just as risky a venture. At the same time, however, you’re not choosing your business partner by drawing their name from a hat, nor are they hiding under three cups labeled A, B, and C. Just like you can evaluate business risk, you should conduct a risk assessment of your potential business partner. If you detect any of the five... [Continue Reading]
Common sense rules on how to prevent getting bankrupt
To a business owner, nothing can be more disturbing than the thought of bankruptcy. Though sometimes it cannot be avoided, most business owners would try and do everything to save their companies from crumbling down and their time, effort, and resources from being wasted. Sometimes financing a business may go wrong and owners find themselves in the situation of filing for bankruptcy, which involves going to court and spending money on legal... [Continue Reading]
Scale Out Provider Cloudscaling Raises $10M With Investment From Juniper ... (May 22, 2013, TechCrunch)
The European Investment Bank says it would have to absorb as much as 1.65 billion euros ($2.1 billion) in extra costs under proposals for a European Union financial-transaction tax. The tax, as proposed, would raise the Luxembourg-based EIB's funding ... (May 22, 2013, Bloomberg)
Video: CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera reports on a Chinese company that plans to manufacture products in the United States and then sell them to Chinese consumers. And, Thilo Hanemann, Rhodium Group, discusses how the Chinese are making more ... (May 22, 2013, NBCNews.com)
Real estate is one of the hottest investment stories on the Street. That's because for the first time in six years, home prices logged an annual gain in 2012. That momentum has carried into 2013, with the S&P/Case Shiller house price index showing ... (May 22, 2013, MSN Money)
YPSILANTI — The woman in charge of $30 billion in custom venture capital funds apparently has a special place for the $600 million of it that's under management in Michigan. Kelly Williams, who leads Credit Suisse's Customized Fund Investment Group, ...
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BP's Iraq Investment to Reach $5 Billion by 2016. Published May 22, 2013. Dow Jones Newswires. U.K. oil major BP PLC (BP) plans to increase the production capacity at the Rumaila oilfield, the largest in Iraq, by 750,000 barrels per day by 2017, and ... (May 22, 2013, Fox Business)
Hardly a day goes by that another firm doesn't either enter into the retail alternative investment space, or expand their offerings; Fidelity and Schwab just announced major initiatives. Becoming more common as well, however, are firms closing retail ... (May 22, 2013, Forbes)
"The investment is aimed at solidifying our relationship with Pantech," which buys components from Samsung, Samsung said in a statement, without providing more details on the rationale behind its investment. Samsung declined to comment when asked ... (May 22, 2013, Fox Business)
McCaffery: 76ers owner Josh Harris needs to recognize bad investment (With ... (May 22, 2013, Delaware County Daily Times)