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Sears plans to raise more cash via rights offering 10/20/2014 04:38pm • HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) -- Sears is looking to raise more cash, announcing that it is planning a rights offering that may raise up to $625 million.The company, which runs Kmart and its namesake stores, also said Monday that it struck a leasing deal with European fashion retailer Primark.Its share European Central Bank starts stimulus purchases 10/20/2014 01:10pm • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- The European Central Bank has started buying securities called covered bonds as it launches its latest stimulus effort aimed at preventing the 18-country eurozone economy from sinking back into recession.An ECB spokeswoman confirmed the purchases began Monday.Covered bonds China's growth likely to slow, research group says 10/20/2014 12:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- China's economic growth will decelerate to 4 percent a year between 2020 to 2025 -- well below widespread expectations of steady 7 percent to 8 percent growth over the next decade, a business research group predicted.The Conference Board forecast Monday that China will endure a rock Market turmoil: A gift for mortgage refinancers? 10/20/2014 10:10am • JOSH BOAK AP Business Writers A sudden plunge in mortgage rates last week raised an urgent question for millions of Americans:Should I refinance my mortgage?Across the country, homeowners and would-be homeowners eager for a bargain rate fired off inquiries to lenders.The opportunity emerged from the Iran says number of foreign tourists surges 10/20/2014 09:59am • ALI AKBAR DAREINI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The number of foreigners visiting Iran jumped dramatically over the 12-month period ending in March, with 35 percent more tourists compared to the same period a year earlier, Iran's top tourism official said Saturday.Masoud Soltanifar said on s Morning Notes 10/20/2014 09:00am • Plastic Surgeon Accused Of Sexual Assault – Chevy Chase plastic surgeon Dr. Hadi Rassael lost his medical license two weeks ago after being accused of sexual assault by two of his patients. The Maryland Board of Physicians suspended Rassael’s license after the two accusations and a China gives $6 million for food in Ebola countries 10/20/2014 03:09am • BEIJING (AP) -- China has donated $6 million to help stave off food shortages in the three African countries worst affected by the Ebola virus, the World Food Program announced Monday, part of Beijing's growing assistance to a continent where its companies have become major investors.WFP China repre 5 Career Checkpoints on the Road to Retirement 10/20/2014 12:00am • It's National Save for Retirement Week, so you'll likely see a lot of information, tools and resources about saving for retirement through your workplace plan, like a 401(k) or 403(b). Although there are basic tips that apply to everyone, considering steps relevant to different stages of your caree Do 529 Plans Make Sense When Parents Get a Late Start Saving for College? 10/20/2014 12:00am • You're the parent of a teenager who is rapidly approaching college age. Like many Americans, you didn't save enough when your child was younger, and you're looking at a looming six-figure bill for tuition, room and board. Should you try to invest as aggressively as you can or protect whatever nest 4 Financial Factors in Making the Part-Time College Calculation 10/20/2014 12:00am • A student can transition from full- to part-time status for any number of reasons. Illness, family problems, stress, work -- all may necessitate a semester or two of pumping the brakes on college. But downshifting to part-time enrollment affects financial aid in myriad ways, from federal loan elig Here's what's been happening in markets this month 10/19/2014 11:52pm • The Associated Press What a difference a month makes.On Sept. 18, the U.S. stock market reached a record high after a mostly uneventful summer. Long-term interest rates headed higher, a sign that investors expected steady U.S. growth. A widely watched measure of volatility in the U.S. stock market First US Ebola victim remembered for compassion 10/19/2014 11:58am • EMERY P. DALESIO Associated Press SALISBURY, N.C. (AP) -- Thomas Eric Duncan was remembered Saturday as a big-hearted and compassionate man whose virtues may have led to his infection with Ebola in his native Liberia and subsequent death as the first victim of the disease in the United States.Family Tasmanian devil death probed at Albuquerque zoo 10/18/2014 06:40pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Authorities are investigating the death of one of four Tasmanian devils loaned to the Albuquerque BioPark Zoo by an Australian group.The animal, named Jasper, was provided to the facility last year, along with three others, by the Healesville Sanctuary in Australia as part Europe's top powers deadlocked as economy sinks 10/18/2014 08:48am • DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Europe's economy needs help -- fast. Yet the two powers that could take action, the European Central Bank and Germany, don't see eye to eye about what to do.That leaves Europe's currency union stuck in a dangerous policy limbo that has inves Regulators close small Maryland bank 10/17/2014 09:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- Regulators have closed a small lender in Maryland, bringing U.S. bank failures this year to 15 after 24 closures in all of 2013.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Friday that it has taken over NBRS Financial Bank of Rising Sun, Maryland.The bank, which operated five branches