Category: Uncategorized

  • 07
    Feb

    Walgreen’s Helps Make Fertility a Men’s Issue, Too

    Filed under: Health Care , Retail Walgreen’s ( WAG ) drugstores already sell more than two dozen kinds of female fertility tests. But for men — not a one.

    Posted by FinanceGuru in Uncategorized

  • 06
    Feb

    Why to Be Glad America Isn’t Making TVs Anymore

    Filed under: Technology , Google , Sony , Apple “The Japanese consumer electronics industry is one of the most prominent industries in the world and is the world’s largest electronics manufacturer …” So begins the Wikipedia entry on the “electronics industry in Japan.” And you know what we should be saying to that? Good riddance. They can have it.

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  • 06
    Feb

    Savings Insecurity Is Growing: Share Your Stories

    Filed under: Personal Finance The Los Angeles Times reports that more than three out of 10 Californians have too little in emergency savings, meaning they haven’t set aside enough to get by for three months if they were to lose their jobs. Exclude illiquid assets like houses, and that number — 30.9% — rises to an even more grim 43.1%, reports the nonprofit Corporation For Enterprise Development.

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  • 04
    Feb

    The Tricks to Maximizing the Cash-Back Card Payoff

    Filed under: JP Morgan Chase , Credit Cards Savers love cash-back cards. Unlike rewards cards that grant points, cash-back cards return a fraction of what you spend in good old U.S. currency

    Posted by FinanceGuru in Uncategorized

  • 04
    Feb

    Detroit’s New Focus on Small Cars and Quality Pays Off

    Filed under: Honda Motor Co , Ford Motor Co , Toyota , General Motors , Autos Not long ago, each time gas prices shot up and car buyers turned their attention to more fuel-efficient models, Ford ( F ) and the other Detroit automakers would get hammered. Their strengths were in SUVs, big cars, and pickups — in other words, gas-hogs. Buyers wanting good mpg numbers tended to look to the imports — enough to make Toyota’s ( TM ) Corolla and Honda’s ( HMC ) Civic perennial best-sellers

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