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Financial Conversation Starters for Couples 10/08/2014 12:00am • Talking about money with your honey can be awkward. Maybe you (or your partner) bring a hefty load of debt into the relationship, or you earn vastly different amounts, or you just have contrasting spending and saving habits. Any number of these differences can generate conflict. But if the relation 4 Ways Older Students Can Avoid Student Debt 10/08/2014 12:00am • Heading back to college can be a savvy financial decision for older workers, whether they're beefing up technical skills, earning professional certificates or enjoying their golden years with an "encore career." But taking on too much student debt is a risk at any age. Of households headed by some Understand How Late Student Loan Payments Affect Your Credit Score 10/08/2014 12:00am • Declining student loan default rates is good news, but many student loan borrowers are still struggling. Estimates show 22 percent of borrowers haven't yet defaulted but are between 90 and 270 days past due on their federal student loans, which means their credit is likely affected. The consequen 4 Reasons Why Cash Is King 10/08/2014 12:00am • How can cash be king with interest rates hovering around zero? Shouldn't this headline read, "Forget About Cash, Its Return Stinks"? Cash has a solid place in your portfolio, even with interest rates near zero. How to profit from cash. Modern portfolio theory recommends keeping a certain percent How to start a savings plan for the holidays 10/08/2014 12:00am • Holiday shopping season is right around the corner. Already feeling stressed about those upcoming expenses? You can alleviate some of those money woes by putting together a savings plan now. Projecting your holiday expenses can make it easier to manage your finances in the middle of shopping seas As EU discusses jobs, frustration among unemployed 10/07/2014 11:00pm • COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer MILAN (AP) -- Protesters who tried to scale the walls of the royal palace in Naples where the European Central Bank was meeting last week embodied the frustration of 26 million jobless Europeans.With the policymakers literally behind fortified walls, symbolically iso Stock down on global growth worries...Auto, student loans push consumer borrowing up...Yum earnings 10/07/2014 06:28pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- The prospects of weakening global growth are weighing on the stocks. Though U.S. growth has been strengthening, the outlook elsewhere is far less encouraging and the International Monetary Fund has trimmed its forecast for global economic growth. The S&P 500 fell 29.72 points, or 1. Consumer borrowing up $13.5 billion in August 10/07/2014 04:58pm • MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. consumers increased their borrowing in August in the category that covers auto loans and student loans but cut back on their credit card borrowing.Overall borrowing rose $13.5 billion in August following a revised $21.6 billion increase i German economic outlook dims as industry slides 10/07/2014 10:06am • DAVID McHUGH Associated Press BERLIN (AP) -- Concerns are growing that Germany's economy may not rebound as expected in the third quarter, weighing on the already-fragile eurozone, after data Tuesday showed the biggest monthly drop in industrial production in five years.The 4 percent drop in industr Smuggled phones help N. Korea defectors send money 10/07/2014 09:58am • HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A cellphone smuggled into North Korea helped Lee Seo Yeon take on two missions: one emotional, one financial. But at first, she feared there might be some mistake.Listening in Seoul, the 40-year-old defector didn't recognize the voice on the Famed beach in Jamaica slowly vanishing to erosion 10/07/2014 09:38am • DAVID McFADDEN Associated Press NEGRIL, Jamaica (AP) -- Tourists from around the world are drawn to a stretch of palm-fringed shoreline known as "Seven Mile Beach," a crescent of white sand along the turquoise waters of Jamaica's western coast. But the sands are slipping away and Jamaicans fear the APNewsBreak: Trump name coming off closed casino 10/06/2014 05:47pm • WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey (AP) -- The Trump name is coming off the shuttered Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City.Trump Entertainment Resorts began removing letters spelling out the Trump name on the casino's exterior Monday morning. Also, workers removed slot machines f Figures on government spending and debt 10/06/2014 05:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- Figures on government spending and debt (last six digits are eliminated). The government's fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30. Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Argentina's former economy minister absolved 10/06/2014 04:38pm • DEBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Argentina's former Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo was absolved by a local court on Monday in a case over the 2001 debt swap ahead of the country's worst economic crisis.Cavallo, 68, had faced charges of illegal negotiations in the hiring Euro Disney shares dive as it needs bailout 10/06/2014 01:50pm • GREG KELLER Associated Press PARIS (AP) -- In Europe, even Mickey Mouse is getting a bailout.The Disney resort on the outskirts of Paris is getting a financial lifeline from owner The Walt Disney Company to handle rising debt and a decline in visitors at a time of economic uncertainty in Europe.The