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Financial Advice for New Graduates: Most college graduates today have at least some student loan debt. Learn about it – the terms and conditions, interest rate, minimum payments, total cost of the loan – everything. Your spending plan must take this debt into account.
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Office building sells for $110m
The sale of the 11-story building in Boston's Financial District signals that the city’s commercial real estate market is heating up.
Procter & Gamble brings back A.G. Lafley as CEO
Household products giant Procter & Gamble Co. is hoping its former CEO can work his magic once again. The surprise move comes as the world’s largest consumer-products maker tries to spur growth.
Summer travel forecast: Better, but no blowout
Airlines, hotels and campgrounds are commanding higher rates and seeing more customers than a few summers ago, and luxury hotels are selling out. Local businessmen and state officials are optimistic.
Brewers team up on beer to help military families
Craft breweries are toasting the troops with a beer aged with a unique ingredient that symbolizes America’s pastime — baseball bats.
Health Policy Commission to review Partners HealthCare plan to acquire South Shore Hospital
The state’s new Health Policy Commission is moving forward with a cost and market impact review, the first test of its ability to influence the hospital consolidation trend in Massachusetts.
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No quick fix for downed bridge on holiday weekend
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) -- Washington state officials are scrambling to find a temporary fix for a bridge that collapsed on an important interstate highway and, incredibly, left just three motorists with injuries. Whatever the solution, it won't come in time to help with Memorial Day's highway hoards. ( 05/25/2013 4:22 AM )
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Chile's Indians take on world's largest gold miner
EL CORRAL, Chile (AP) -- The Diaguita Indians live in the foothills of the Andes, just downstream from the world's highest gold mine, where for as long as anyone can remember they've drunk straight from the glacier-fed river that irrigates their orchards and vineyards with its clear water. ( 05/25/2013 3:46 AM )
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student loans?
If you have private student loans, you may want to buy life insurance to repay that debt if you die prematurely.
Should I keep an unwanted store credit card?
Store credit cards typically come with low credit limits and high interest rates to offset the card's more loose credit requirements.
Technology
Should we let wunderkinds drop out of high school?
David Karp, who doesn’t even have a high school diploma, founded online blogging platform Tumblr and sold it to Yahoo for $1.1 billion.
Meet the new Xbox One
The Xbox One offers a number of improvements over the Xbox 360, but the big challenge for Microsoft is in convincing people to upgrade.
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Summary Box: Stocks little changed, end week down
WEEKLY LOSS: Major stock indexes ended the week lower for the first time since the week ending April 19. A disappointing manufacturing report out of China and a sharp fall in Japan's stock market rattled investors' nerves this week. But anxiety over the Federal Reserve's bond-buying program was the main culprit. ( 05/24/2013 5:53 PM )
Trapped in your house?
The good news is the number of Greater Boston homeowners owing more than what their castles are worth has dropped below 16 percent. The bad...
Trying to explain your job? Don't.
No one can picture your job, says Paul Hellman, because they haven't seen it on TV. Here's the solution.
These are the worst new cars in the world
A few months ago, I was driving an Audi S4 wagon through beautiful South Africa. But those riches didn't last long. For two days, I strapped myself into seven terrible cars that were too unsafe and shoddy to ever......
Marketwire Press Releases
- TRC Names John Cowdery Senior Vice President & Environmental Sector Director (Marketwire, 05/25/2013)
- Kelley Bernheim Dolinsky, LLC Files First Lawsuit in Massachusetts Arising out of Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II Recall (Marketwire, 05/25/2013)
- Spring Brings New Life to the World and a New Look to Your Home (Marketwire, 05/25/2013)
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