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Make the Most of a Small Investing Budget 06/18/2018 08:00pm • Laurie Itkin began investing at 24 with just $1,600 she received as inheritance. By regularly adding small amounts of money to it in brokerage and retirement accounts, the financial advisor and author of "Every Woman Should Know Her Options" had a $1 million portfolio by age 40. Sure, investing wit 7 High-Quality Dividend Stocks To Buy 06/18/2018 08:00pm • Bank of America's best dividend stocks.Long-term investors know that dividends can have a major impact on returns over time. When the stock market is struggling to make gains like it has in 2018, dividends are a reliable source of income. However, dividends are only beneficial if the underlying stoc Dulles Toll Road rate increase proposal set; would start in January 06/18/2018 03:59pm • REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT — Dulles Toll Road drivers would pay 75 cents more at the mainline toll plaza and 50 cents more at each ramp under a proposal set to be presented Wednesday. The proposal to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board matches a 2019 toll road rate increase outlin The high cost of being gay 06/17/2018 08:00pm • It gets better -- and you have to be able to afford it. That's a key lesson from John Schneider and David Auten, Denver-based financial planners who focus on serving LGBT clients and also happen to be married. After a year and a half of dating, they opened up financially to one another and admitted How to Get a Small Business Expansion Loan 06/17/2018 08:00pm • If you're a small business owner looking to take your business to the next level, you may not have the capital you need to expand. A small business expansion loan can provide you with the cash you need to open up a new location, hire staff or upgrade your equipment. But where do you start and how do Your Money-Do List: 4 Things to Do Before You Start Investing 06/17/2018 08:00pm • Managing your money can feel like trying to find that second sock in the laundry. You look and look until ultimately relenting and wearing one white and one green just to get through the day. No one will see your socks anyway. But then tomorrow arrives and you find yourself holding one white sock a 9 habits that can get you out of a deep debt hole 06/15/2018 09:00am • Learn how to shift your spending habits. In 2008, American households carried $280 billion in debt. While debt dwindled in the following years, in 2017 the country hit another record -- $13 trillion in household debt, including mortgages, car loans, credit card debt and student loans, according t 9 Things to Know Before You Get Another Credit Card 06/14/2018 08:00pm • Here are the telltale signs it's an ideal time to carry another card.According to the credit bureau Experian, the average American carried a credit card balance of $6,375 in 2017, a nearly 3 percent uptick from 2016. How does that impact your decision to apply for another credit card? Maybe you neve 8 Stocks That Should Strengthen From a Weak Dollar 06/13/2018 08:00pm • Long term, the dollar's trend is down.Don't be fooled by the rising U.S. dollar because the long-term trend is for a weakening greenback. The dollar gained recently after yields for 10-year U.S. Treasury notes rose, but Richard Kelly, head of global strategy at TD Securities in London, says in a res How to Teach Your Parents to Invest 06/13/2018 08:00pm • There comes a time in every child's life when they realize they understand something better than their parents. Perhaps it's as a teenager when your parents can't program the GPS, or maybe it's as a young adult when you realize they don't know how to invest. While a parent who still uses maps is fo 3 Tips to Chart Your Own Map to Retirement 06/13/2018 08:00pm • When it comes to retirement planning, working Americans are primarily on their own -- pensions are a thing of the past and the future of Social Security is increasingly uncertain. As the retirement landscape continues to change, so do Americans' expectations about this phase of life. Many of the pr 7 Ways to Debt-Proof Your Summer 06/12/2018 08:00pm • As the weather heats up, so does consumer spending. Americans not only dish out more money on travel and entertainment from June to August than other times of year, but the relaxed, laid-back vibe of the season entices people to track their spending less, leading to careless credit card swiping. W U.K. Crackdown on Foreign Wealth Targets Russia's Elite 06/12/2018 08:00pm • LONDON -- Chelsea's soccer team won the United Kingdom's coveted FA Cup in May but its owner, Russian multi-billionaire Roman Abramovich, wasn't on hand to savor the victory. His visa expired in April, and since then the 51-year-old oil tycoon -- who is worth $11.5 billion and also owns a $121.5 mil Sears Holding Corp (SHLD) Stock Continues to Rise, Thanks to Amazon 06/12/2018 08:00pm • Sears Holdings Corp (NYSE: SHLD) shares continued to trade higher this week after the company announced that it is extending its Auto Center partnership with Amazon.com ( AMZN). Sears investors took the announcement as much-needed good news as the company continues to struggle to stay solvent. SHL How Volunteer Work Can Pay Your Student Loans 06/12/2018 08:00pm • To pay off $85,000 in student loans, Danny McGee is looking for extra work outside of his job as a building systems engineer. But he's not looking for odd jobs or a restaurant gig -- instead, McGee wants to focus on nonprofit work to pay down his debt from college and grad school. The Michigan dad,