Personal Economics
  • A U.S. Postal Service employee carries a sign during a demonstration with colleagues in San Francisco, California January 28, 2014.REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

    Lowe's raises fiscal-year profit, sales forecasts

    By Nandita Bose and Ramkumar Iyer, Reuters

    (Reuters) - Lowe's Cos Inc , the No. 2 U.S. home improvement chain, on Wednesday raised its fiscal-year profit and sales forecasts as an improving job market encourages home owners to increase...

  • 6 Ways Your Company Health Plan Could Change

    By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News

    You don’t get a pass this year on big health insurance decisions because you’re not shopping in an Affordable Care Act marketplace. Employer medical plans — where most working-age folks get coverage...

  • Eliminating banks as middle men for federally guaranteed college loans will save $68 billion over the next 11 years.

    College Accounts Are Latest Target of ID Thieves

    By Zachary Fagenson, Reuters

    U.S. law-enforcement officials on Tuesday arrested 17 people accused of trying to collect almost $2 million in bogus tax refunds using college student accounts, the latest identity scam to defraud...

  • A sign is seen on an ICAP office in the City of London September 25, 2013. REUTERS/Toby Melville

    ICAP shares sink as first-half profit falls sharply

    By Reuters

    ICAP, which matches buyers and sellers of bonds, swaps and currencies, said profit before tax for the six months to Sept. 30 was 86 million pounds($135 million), compared with 139 million pounds a...

  • Products made by Johnson & Johnson for sale on a store shelf in Westminster, Colorado in this file photo dated April 14, 2009. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

    J&J seeks over $5 billion in damages from Boston Scientific at trial

    By Joseph Ax, Reuters

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly a decade after losing a bidding war for device maker Guidant to Boston Scientific Corp, Johnson & Johnson finally has a chance for payback at a multibillion-dollar...