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Second Homes Need a Mix of Old and New to Make Them Cozy 07/18/2024 08:00pm • Real estate experts and reality TV stars Tom Postilio and Mickey Conlon know a thing or two about staging a home, so when it came to designing and decorating their own waterfront house, they did what felt natural: They blended the new with the old to make their recently constructed cottage feel like Amazon says this year's Prime Day was its biggest ever 07/18/2024 12:33pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon saw record sales for Prime Day this week as Prime members purchased more items than ever before, the company announced Thursday. The Seattle e-commerce giant, which does not disclose how much it earns during the popular discount event, also said “millions” of customers j How Does Citi Flex Plan Work? 07/17/2024 08:00pm • Citi Flex Plan is a service that lets Citi credit card holders tap into their line of credit in creative ways. With Citi Flex Pay, cardholders can split a large purchase into fixed monthly payments. 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But phishing attempts increase amid the heavy spending seen during significant sales events, wh 9 Best Growth Stocks for the Next 10 Years 07/16/2024 08:00pm • Most research shows that buying and holding a diversified basket of stocks for the long haul is much better for your portfolio than trading in and out of positions. Finding the best growth stocks for the next decade, then, is perhaps an easier task than many investors would think. The first step is 8 Ways to Manage Money Stress 07/16/2024 08:00pm • It's easy to get stressed about money. Life is expensive. Even in the best of times, your own finances may not be all that healthy, and there's always something around the corner that you're going to want or need to spend money on, from summer vacations to car repairs to back-to-school season to hos 7 Best Retail Stocks and Discount Retailers for 2024 07/16/2024 08:00pm • On July 16, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that retail sales were virtually unchanged in June. Flat retail sales numbers are generally not something to celebrate, but this report was better than Wall Street was expecting. The consensus among economists was that, after a slight gain in May, retail s Capital One and Walmart Call It Quits: Which Card To Use at Walmart Now 07/16/2024 08:00pm • Capital One was the exclusive issuer of Walmart cards for nearly five years, offering the Capital One Walmart Rewards Card and Walmart Rewards card. But that partnership has since ended, with a federal court ruling in March 2024 that Walmart could terminate the agreement after the retailer cited cus Walmart retools its young adult clothing line in pursuit of fashion credibility 07/16/2024 05:55pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart has spent three years overhauling its mix of adult apparel to make it stylish as well as sensible for middle America. Now, the nation's largest retailer is seizing the back-to-school shopping season to take another shot at fashion respectability. The company plans to relau A dam fails after rain, wind, tornadoes pound the Midwest. The Chicago area is cleaning up 07/16/2024 05:49pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Hundreds of people in a southern Illinois town were ordered to evacuate Tuesday as water rolled over the top of a dam, just one perilous result of severe weather that raged through the Midwest overnight with relentless rain and tornadoes and hit the Chicago area especially hard. Hun Retail sales unchanged in June from May, underscoring shoppers' resilience 07/16/2024 03:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Shoppers paused their spending in June from May, defying economic forecasts for a pullback and proving their resilience in the face of an uncertain economy Retail sales were unchanged in June from May, after being revised upward to a 0.3% increase in May, according to the Commerce Amazon Prime Day deals are almost here. Should you take advantage of them? 07/16/2024 03:05pm • NEW YORK (AP) — It's summertime, and the bargains seem easy at a time when many consumer prices are high. July sales events have become a seasonal revenue driver for the retail industry since Amazon launched its first Prime Day back in 2015. While consumers may be enticed by the advertised can't- Germany's top security official bans a far-right magazine, accusing it of spreading hatred 07/16/2024 05:47am • BERLIN (AP) — Germany's top security official on Tuesday banned a far-right magazine, accusing it of stirring up hatred against Jews, people with immigrant roots and parliamentary democracy. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser banned Compact magazine and the company that publishes it, Compact-Magazin G From basement to battlefield: Ukrainian startups create low-cost robots to fight Russia 07/15/2024 09:58pm • NORTHERN UKRAINE (AP) — Struggling with manpower shortages, overwhelming odds and uneven international assistance, Ukraine hopes to find a strategic edge against Russia in an abandoned warehouse or a factory basement. An ecosystem of laboratories in hundreds of secret workshops is leveraging innov