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Money Tips & News
The Money Guide features top finance stories and money news to help you stay in your budget, plan for college or save for that much needed vacation!
Personal Finance Articles
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People are constantly looking for ways to achieve financial success more easily in their life. Over the years, more and more strategies have been developed to help people to achieve their financial dreams. If you are reading this right now, I believe that you are in your journey to your financial success, and you would like to learn how you can supercharge yourself to your financial success.
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A live-for-today attitude has led many people into debt with little or no savings in reserve in a crisis situation. Opening a savings account has never been easier, and putting away a little each month is all that it takes for a little peace of mind.
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While many households have dropped their home phone to make the switch to just their cell phones, the majority of US homes still have a landline phone for the majority of their calls. Many options exist to lower your bill, and while some are geared towards the high-tech crowd, you can still save a bunch of money with low-tech options.
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Saving money is one of the key concerns that worry us humans. No, we are not talking about saving up to get hold of the recent music album on the charts; neither it is for getting enrolled in a yoga program. Savings pave the way towards developing a certain mindset;
Money News
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Some banks are competing with attractive introductory rates on accounts. Get the lowdown here on the high yields.
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Debt affects your ability to accumulate wealth in your earning years; in your retirement years, it's disastrous.
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Remember down payments? They're back in vogue with home lenders. Here's what you can do to come up with the cash.
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No one wants to think about death, but the alternative is to leave your loved one in a lurch.
The Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter
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"Home foreclosures will keep rising next year no matter who is elected president in November."
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"Count on the folks at Realtor.com to look on the bright side. PMI, the mortgage insurance folks, released a report on July 1 entitled, "PMI Summer 2008 Risk Index Indicates Risk Intensifying in Areas With Previous Rapid Home Price Growth". Rather than focusing on that increased risk however, Realtor.com decided to focus on the bottom of the list and title their article, "14 Markets With Nowhere to Go but Up "."
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"In January, the year over year drop for Southern California was 13.3% and the median price was $425,000. That may seem horrific and was a record but measure that with data 6 months later that now has the year over year drop at 26.7% and a median price of $370,000. The velocity of the drop intensified exponentially during this time frame."
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Shares in Bradford & Bingley slumped today after its attempts to raise urgently needed fresh capital were hit by the withdrawal of US private equity firm TPG Capital. The buy-to-let lender's share price tumbled in early trading, at one stage dipping below 55p – the price at which it hopes to sell new shares to investors through its bruised rights issue. But by noon the company's shares had settled at 55.25p, a 9% fall. TPG ditched its plan to inject £179m into B&B last night, after ratings agency Moody's told the bank it was planning to downgrade its credit rating....
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