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Core Banking Offsets Trading Dip at Citigroup, JPMorgan 10/11/2017 08:00pm • Citigroup Inc (NYSE: C) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. ( JPM) kicked off big bank earnings season with a mixed bag of results on Thursday morning. Overall, both banks reported earnings and revenue beats for the third quarter, but investors were most concerned about the banks' trading revenues. At firs There's Bullish Sentiment for Bank Stocks Through 2018 10/10/2017 08:00pm • It's been a good year for banking and financials investors, and it could even get better in 2018. The big banking exchange-traded funds -- Fidelity MSCI Financials (ticker: FNCL, up 34.5 percent over the past year), iShares U.S. Financials ( IYF, 6.55 percent), and Vanguard Financials ( VFH, up 34. New Homebuyer Programs Help Student Loan Borrowers 10/10/2017 08:00pm • Evidence showing that student loan debt is affecting the housing market continues to pile up -- but so are tangible solutions for borrowers. According to the recent joint study by the National Association of Realtors and American Student Assistance -- full disclosure, ASA authors the Student Loan R How AI and Investing Are Merging 10/10/2017 08:00pm • You wake up to your morning Joe, which your coffee machine brews just the way you like it because it has learned your tastes, even when they change. Alexa greets you and before you can even ask about the weather, she says her parent company Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is going to release its quarterl Help for Hurricane-Affected Student Loan Borrowers 10/10/2017 08:00pm • After staying in a hotel for a week because Hurricane Harvey flooded her Texas hometown, Patience Wieland was relieved to find out that her student loan servicer had placed her monthly payments on hold. Some lenders, including the Department of Education's student loan service providers, are offeri 4 Simple Ways to Keep an Eye on Your Credit 10/09/2017 08:00pm • In the wake of the Equifax data breach, many Americans are rightfully concerned about their credit. Will someone be using their identities to take out loans? The fact that there's wildly different advice from different sources makes things even more confusing. In any situation where you feel uncert The Fun Way to Get Americans to Save More 10/08/2017 08:00pm • If you would struggle to come up with $400 in an emergency, but you also buy hundreds of dollars in scratch-off and lottery tickets each year -- you're hardly alone. Despite the losing odds, it's the poorest Americans that are most likely to play the lottery, perhaps because they feel like they're Equifax makes money by knowing a lot about you 10/06/2017 01:05am • NEW YORK (AP) — Equifax knows a lot about you. That is, in essence, how it makes money. The company and its competitors have in their files the personal financial information of tens of millions of Americans like you, going back decades. Your mortgage loan totals. When you switched from a Macy' Is the Bear About to Come Out of Hibernation? 10/05/2017 08:00pm • The Standard & Poor's 500 index, the Dow Jones industrial average and the Nasdaq composite continue to reach record highs, surprising investors who think a bear market is imminent. However, the combination of synchronized global growth and low inflation may keep the bear in hibernation for a lo Sears Needs Much More Than Another $100 Million Loan 10/05/2017 08:00pm • In its latest attempt to avoid bankruptcy, Sears Holdings Corp. (Nasdaq: SHLD) has reached back into the pockets of CEO Eddie Lampert once again to secure a $100 million loan. Unfortunately for Sears investors, the company's latest desperate injection of capital to make it through the critical holi Borrowing to Invest Is Risky Business 10/05/2017 08:00pm • Historically low interest rates on personal borrowing over the past decade can allow people with good credit to capitalize on other opportunities to build their net worth, including levering to invest in real estate, businesses and even stocks. For example, if you use a home equity loan at 4 percent 4 Common Misconceptions Stopping Millennials from Owning a Home 10/05/2017 08:00pm • The vast majority of millennials think owning a home is an important part of the American Dream, on par with Americans of every age. Millennials, however, are facing some of the strongest headwinds ever. Home prices are climbing well above the rate of income growth and millennials more than any old 5 secrets of super savers living on a single income 10/04/2017 08:00pm • With many dual-income American couples living paycheck to paycheck, single-income families may feel even more pinched, especially since they don't have the security of another income if one partner loses their job. However, as these families prove, it's not how much you earn, but rather how m 7 Insider Tips to Make Open Enrollment Work for You 10/04/2017 08:00pm • It's that time of year when employees across the country have the opportunity to change their workplace benefits during the open enrollment period. Companies will hold meetings, pass out booklets and launch apps to help workers understand their options, and experts say it's more important than ever Getting Financial Advice When You Have Less Than $100,000 to Invest 10/04/2017 08:00pm • Index funds and low-cost brokerages have made do-it-yourself investing easier than ever, but finding a financial advisor remains daunting, especially for young middle-class families with little money to invest. Many advisors only accept clients with investable assets of $100,000 to a half million,