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3 Reasons to Apply for Scholarships That Offer More Than Money 03/07/2018 07:00pm • Scholarship application essays often ask how winning an award could change your life. It's hard not to just think about the ways money could help with college costs. A $10,000 scholarship, for example, could help you bridge the gap between your savings and a college's cost of attendance. It also co Netflix Stock May Have Run Out of Steam 03/07/2018 07:00pm • Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) stock hit the ground running in 2018, but even some of the biggest Netflix bulls are a getting a bit uneasy about the stock's nearly 70 percent gain in just over two months. On Wednesday, Stifel analyst Scott Devitt downgraded Netflix and says the stock's share price ha Why We Keep Making the Same Money Mistakes 03/07/2018 07:00pm • In theory, money management should be easy. Finance experts like Dave Ramsey and Mary Hunt say it boils down to spending less than you earn and saving enough for retirement and a rainy day. But in practice, people struggle to master managing their finances. As of December 2017, Americans collective 9 ETFs for Nervous Investors 03/07/2018 07:00pm • Protection and peace of mind.It has been a year of fireworks. After a rosy start to 2018, big downside moves in early February included two 1,000-point drops in the Dow Jones industrial average that erased all those gains. After clawing back those gains, the market was held back by fears of a global Escape DC? Tackle student loan debt? Get paid to move to rural America 03/07/2018 04:03am • WASHINGTON — Small towns in rural America are facing an economic survival crisis, and some are offering incentives to get people to move there. Take, for example, Loup City, Nebraska, population: 1,000. Loup City has turned farmland into a small neighborhood near town, named John Subdivision, w What Student Loan Borrowers Need to Know If Gainful Employment Rule Changes 03/06/2018 07:00pm • The gainful employment rule -- which aims to protect student loan borrowers by regulating poorly performing higher education programs -- has a long history of being debated and modified. Now, it's being revamped again. A third and final negotiated rule-making session will be held on March 12 to de DC tops national credit card debt list; Baltimore ranks 6th 03/06/2018 08:50am • WASHINGTON — Do you have a hefty balance on your credit card each month? If so, it turns out you’re not alone in the D.C. area. According to a study by CreditCards.com, residents of Washington and Baltimore are in the top-10 nationally when it comes to their average monthly card balance. Wreckage of famed US World War II carrier discovered 03/06/2018 08:14am • BANGKOK (AP) — A piece of prized World War II U.S. naval history, the wreckage of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, which was sunk by the Japanese in a crucial sea battle, has been discovered by an expedition funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The expedition team announced that th What Are Dividends and How Do They Work? 03/05/2018 07:00pm • Dividend stocks are a staple of every income investor's portfolio, but don't dismiss them as a retiree's investment only. Dividend stocks have a role to play in any portfolio, no matter the investor's age or financial circumstances. The reason: compounding. When the dividends these stocks pay are r 8 Commodity Plays Ripe for the Picking 03/05/2018 07:00pm • The stars align for commodities. This could be commodities' year. In each of the 50 years when gross domestic product growth exceeded the unemployment rate, commodities enhanced stock portfolio returns while reducing risk. This year the potential for higher inflation and a robust global economy favo 4 Mistakes People Make After Getting Out of Debt 03/05/2018 07:00pm • If you've recently paid off a mortgage or credit card balance that you've had for years, you're probably wary about taking out another loan. Yet new statistics suggest that despite reservations, consumers are taking out new loans anyway. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Center for Trump's Tariffs Could Harm Trade 03/05/2018 07:00pm • President Donald Trump announced a plan to impose 25 percent tariffs on imported steel and 10 percent on imported aluminum, following earlier trade actions targeting imported washing machines and solar panels. Trump promised to take action on steel and aluminum imports during his campaign, and many JC Penney Company Inc (JCP) Holiday Sales Miss the Mark 03/01/2018 07:00pm • After plummeting 9.4 percent on Thursday, J.C. Penney Co Inc (NYSE: JCP) shares tanked another 12 percent on Friday morning after fourth-quarter revenue and same-store sales numbers came up short of expectations. J.C. Penney stock dipped below $3.50 in the pre-market session as investors contemplat What Are Your Options After You Default on Student Loans? 03/01/2018 07:00pm • Everyone knows that when you take out student loans, ultimately, you have to pay back the lender. But what if you start missing a series of payments? It happens more often than you might think. In 2017, the U.S. Department of Education announced that after five years of declines in student loan def Meet Italy's Five-Star Movement Candidate for North and Central America 03/01/2018 07:00pm • Emanuel Mazzilli is one of the approximately 200,000 Italians living in California. He has a well-paid job in Silicon Valley working as a software engineer; he recently bought a house in downtown San Francisco, and considers himself fortunate that by the age of 30 he's done well with all major thin