Financial Stress
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ENT: How to reduce your bills – Online column by Bob Vaillancourt
It’s the end of January and time to start facing some of those bills you acquired last month when the spirit of Christmas was upon the land.[...]
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Harvard’s investment arm hires Barclays official
* Harvard hires debt manager for internal team * HMC oversees school’s roughly $27.6 billion endowment BOSTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Harvard Management Co, whichoversees America’s largest college …
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Great-West Life enhances financial education services for group retirement plans
The Great-West Life Assurance Company is making enhancements to the financial education services offered to group retirement plan members through Acquaint Financial Inc, the company said Tuesday.
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European stocks up on German growth prospects
Hopes that German growth and new European Union measures will help ease the debt crisis boosted European stocks on Friday, though Asia remained shaken by fears that China will have to take action to cool off its economy.
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Take the time to read your credit notices
The secret life of credit scores will be exposed this year through some new paperwork as consumers shop for car loans, credit cards and other sources of money. Now, you may ask, who really needs more paperwork? But these extra notices are actually worthwhile reading.
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Best Muni-Bond Manager Says Whitney Call on Defaults Overblown
Lyle Fitterer, the top manager of U.S. municipal-bond funds in the past decade, sides with Bill Gross and against Meredith Whitney in his view that fiscally strained states and cities will avoid widespread defaults.
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Europe mulls changes to rescue fund
Euro zone finance ministers will discuss Monday an increase in the effective lending capacity of the euro zone rescue fund, to draw a line under the sovereign debt crisis before more countries need help.
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Carmakers slicing into bailout debt, panel reports
Though full repayment is still in doubt, the improving financial performance of GM and Chrysler has made a big dent in what they owe the U.S. Treasury, the Congressional Oversight Panel says. The federal government’s $85-billion bailout of the U.S. auto industry will be less costly than first thought, [...]
In the Sovereign Debt Battle, Spain Is a Crucial Front
Germany is blocking any financial lifeline for a country until it is actually drowning. China, which pledged last week to buy Spanish government bonds, is doing more to help Madrid than Berlin is.
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