After Market: Stocks Rally, S&P 500 Closes In on Record High

Date: Feb 20 2014
Filed under: Earnings, Retail, Market News, Mergers & Acquisitions, Telecommunications Just a few weeks ago investors were worried about a market correction. Now the S&P 500 is honing back in on its record high. The Dow Jones industrial average (^DJI) jumped 92 ...Read More »

Why Cheap Just Isn’t Enough Anymore for Walmart

Date: Feb 20 2014
Filed under: Earnings, Shopping, Wal-Mart, Shopping Trends, Investing Getty Images/Justin Sullivan Walmart Stores (WMT) has gone from being Sam Walton's modest five-and-dime store to ruling the roost as the world's largest retailer. However, it's starting to struggle lately, and that was clearly ...Read More »

Which Olympic Medal Would Your Savings Habits Win?

Date: Feb 20 2014
Filed under: Personal Finance, Budgeting, Retirement Plans, Financial Education Getty Images It's hard not to get caught up in Olympic fever. The games are in full swing, and the world has been fascinated by all the athletes performing at the peak of ...Read More »

Investing: REITs rise from the wreckage

Date: Feb 20 2014
Beaten-down real estate funds could have room to run. http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomMoney-TopStories/~3/jo1etBCZUNc/ Read More »

What to watch: Existing home sales report due out

Date: Feb 20 2014
Tight inventory, higher prices and bad weather could add up to fewer-than-expected sales in January. http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomMoney-TopStories/~3/0XRk6E7mFvA/ Read More »

Westhill Consulting Jakarta: What You Need to Know About IPO Investments

Date: Feb 19 2014
1888PressRelease - Westhill Consulting is an international financial advisory firm based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Below is a guide to Initial Public Offerings (IPO's) intended to simplify the jargon and remove the fear that IPO's involve higher risk as compared ...Read More »

The 7 Best Money Tips

Date: Feb 19 2014
Filed under: Personal Finance, Financial EducationAlamy By Jerry Lynch, president of JFL Total Wealth Management I have been a financial planner for quite some time now. There are a lot of things that are very easy to understand about planning and there ...Read More »

Flush Investors Take a Shine to Rare Coins

Date: Feb 19 2014
Filed under: Alternative Investment, InvestingGetty Images By Nia Hamm Given the record gains Wall Street posted in 2013, you might be tempted to think the financial dog days are behind us, at least for now. But many wealthy investors continue to pour more ...Read More »

IRS releases ‘Dirty Dozen’ tax scams for 2014

Date: Feb 19 2014
Here's how fraudsters try to steal your hard-earned money during tax time. http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomMoney-TopStories/~3/w3im4vX7jdo/ Read More »

New Technologies May Make Credit Cards Obsolete

Date: Feb 19 2014
Filed under: Banking, Credit Cards, Internet, Mobile Technology, SpendingGabe Hernandez, The Monitor/AP By ANICK JESDANUN NEW YORK -- Visa and MasterCard are introducing Internet-based technologies to make it easier for shoppers to buy things at retail stores without pulling out a credit ...Read More »