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Why free photo book offers keep flowing
- Joan Fee is just the kind of customer the online photo industry is hoping for when it offers free prints and photo books. The 55-year-old personal assistant from Morro Bay, California, saw an email a couple of weeks ago offering a photo book for just the price of shipping, and she bit.
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Schwab loses lawsuit to halt FINRA action
- A federal court judge threw out a lawsuit by Charles Schwab Corp that had sought to stop its regulator from disciplining the brokerage for trying to take away customers' rights to sue it in class actions.
Bonds funds globally see $8.55 billion, most in a decade: EPFR
NEW YORK - Investors poured the most money into bond funds globally in over a decade while fleeing equity funds in renewed worries over the strength of the global economic recovery and spillover effects of the eurozone crisis, data from EPFR Global showed on Friday.
Student debt: Where you attend college matters
BOSTON - If you thought four years at Princeton would leave you saddled with more debt than the University of Michigan, think again.
JPMorgan $2 billion loss hits shares, credit, image
NEW YORK/LONDON - JPMorgan Chase & Co lost $15 billion in market value and a notch in its credit ratings on Friday while a chorus of regulators and politicians reacted to its surprise $2 billion trading loss by demanding stiffer oversight for the banking industry. | Video
New online Social Security statements don't cut it
CHICAGO - Your annual Social Security benefit statement, which provides an important annual reminder and explanation of benefits, has moved online.
Class of 2012: Much like mom and dad
Today's graduates started college during the worst recession since the Depression, but there was a recession in the 1990s, too. One key difference is graduates today are probably carrying more debt. Full Article | Video
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