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If you own a home and you have a mortgage on that home, your lender is going to require you to have property insurance. The insurance protects you, but your lender is more concerned with protecting its collateral. The thing is, most homeowners policies are so full of loopholes these days the protection may be a lot thinner than anyone realizes.
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Drive-through fast-food outlets proliferated in the suburbs for a reason: between SUV trips to the soccer field and dance class and music lessons and homework club there isn't much time for the grocery store, let alone the kitchen. Just how is a Soccer Mom or Dad supposed to put a nutritious meal on the table every night?
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Wait and they will come. Luxury options that appear first in the highest-end homes, stores and cars -- think granite countertops, designer housewares and GPS systems -- before too long trickle down to the cookie-cutter houses, the discount department stores and the mass-production autos. So why shouldn't the same thing be true in financial services?
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Instead of wringing their hands as the housing market sinks, home builders have decided to ring up some sales. In the face of high inventories and low buyer interest, builders have decided that discounts are the better part of valor, dangling thousands of dollars of incentives on many homes and now simply cutting prices.
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Encouraging data on the housing market in the past few weeks have some observers insisting that the worst is over. But others say the small improvements are merely statistical blips and that the market still has much further to fall.
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Nothing excites a value-stock investor more than a discount. Any chance to acquire shares of a company when it's out of favor, especially a business that generates lots of cash, puts dollar signs in a value buyer's eyes.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- They could easily be wrong, but when politicians of both parties talk about next month's Congressional election, they more or less assume that that the Democrats will regain the House of Representatives.
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If there were any lingering fears keeping Americans from traveling freely about the country, you wouldn't be able to tell it from the pricing power that airlines, hotels and rental-car companies seem to have these days. With planes, rooms and autos jammed at every turn, it's no wonder travel prices are going up.
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A barrel of economic news concerning housing hit this week, and none of it points to market decline coming to an end soon. True, new-home sales were up, but that gain came at the expense of prices, which took their biggest tumble in 36 years. Existing-home sales fell for a sixth straight month, and existing-home prices posted back-to-back monthly declines for the first time in 16 years.
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This quarter proves its triple play and Adelphia assets make it the entertainment blue-chip.
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Despite the stock's record-high price tag, the company should report positive results.
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Its brands are the key to this food company's turnaround story, says Cramer. Plus, wild for wings.
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U.S. growth expands at a 1.6% annual rate in the third quarter, down from 2.6% in the second.
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Chart analysis of the Internet giant, plus the NYSE Group, Electronic Arts and Martha Stewart Living.
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Explore a different side of the housing market -- as many corporations do -- by volunteering at Habitat for Humanity.
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Who made what calls.
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This week's economic data
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This week's economic data
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Need HR help for your small business? Consider hiring a Professional Employer Organization.
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TheStreet.com corrects its errors.
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Lower economic activity means less inflation risk but may also mean a Fed rate cut.
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Chesapeake's results and rhetoric hint at more bullish times for the space.
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Crude futures tick higher as the British Navy steams toward Saudi Arabia's largest oil export facility.
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Cramer says that the fundamentals aren't good enough to get in despite takeover possibilities.
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Intel and Micron dive, adding to the pain from the GDP report.
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