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After the Rain: The Lasting Effects of a Hurricane on Home Sales 10/12/2017 08:00pm • This summer's hurricane season shocked many, as storm after storm hit U.S. soil and caused insurmountable damage to homes, land and commercial property. Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas on Aug. 25 rated a Category 4 hurricane. It brought high winds and flash floods, and continued to wreak hav Everything You Need to Know About the 2018-2019 FAFSA 10/12/2017 08:00pm • Families with a college student may notice a few differences on this year's Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The form, commonly called the FAFSA, is the key application to determine college financial aid. Similar to last year, the FAFSA became available on Oct. 1, but this year brings a fe Bank of America (BAC), Wells Fargo (WFC) Report Mixed Earnings 10/12/2017 08:00pm • Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC) and Wells Fargo & Co ( WFC) continued a mixed earnings season for big bank stocks on Friday morning. Neither company wowed Wall Street, despite both banks reporting third quarter earnings beats. Bank of America picked up where JPMorgan Chase & Co. ( JPM) and What would you give to wipe out your student loans? 10/12/2017 12:19pm • WASHINGTON — With student loan debt at a record $1.3 trillion and delinquency rates rising, Americans saddled with student loans, especially young adults, would be willing to do some drastic things to get out from under the weight of their debt burden. Credible.com, a sort of Kayak for comparin Who's Footing the College Tuition Bill? 10/11/2017 08:00pm • American families spent an average of $23,757 to send their kids to college during the 2016-2017 school year. That's according to a study conducted by student loan company Sallie Mae. Now in its 10th year, the annual "How America Pays for College" survey asks 800 undergraduate students between the 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