Austin Business & Finance Examiners
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In a market where tightening underwriting guidelines are making it increasingly difficult to qualify for mortgages, savvy borrowers are finding that...
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Who needs cable these days? But sometimes the thought of cutting that cable conjures the sinking feeling that you might miss all the great...
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An interesting statistic ever-so-casually mentioned in a local paper - unemployment was up to 10.4% in 1982, but what makes things worse...
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35d4-429d-9c08-edf13b2a2173.jpg&use=pquery Mortgage rates hit perhaps historical lows today as mixed news, largely less than...
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Consumer confidence inched ahead in the latest month, but the monthly sample of 5,000 U.S. households shows no signs of breaking out of...
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway may not have received permission from the SEC to keep some of its stock holdings confidential as of Sept. 30. When Berkshire filed...
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Good Morning America's cancellation of Adam Lambert's concert is at best homophobic. In truth, it reeks of prudishness and a desire to buy into a veiled homophobia that still seems...
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New York Mets Stories2009 MLB season in review: New York Mets The 2009 season was a terrible disappointment for the New York Mets. They...
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Ignore the naysayers! You can build your dream business, regardless of what current economic conditions may suggest. Many successful...
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Amazon.com's newest Kindle model has 85 percent more battery life than the previous version, the company announced today. The new version...
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World stocks buoyed by Fed but dollar slides
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World stock markets rose Wednesday after the U.S. Federal Reserve indicated that interest rates will remain at super-low levels for a while yet. Meanwhile, the dollar slid to a ten-month low against the yen after the central bank said the currency's decline had been "orderly."