Since a lot of people take the week between Christmas and New Year’s off, if you are working over the holidays, chances are it will be slow. Experts say this is what you should do with that time instead of playing Candy Crush:
If someone says “haggling,” you’ll probably think of dust-covered antiques at a flea market, or a box full of old LPs at a garage sale. Time to take it up a notch. Major retailers are increasingly willing to negotiate on
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Got milk? You probably will next year — reports of $8-a-gallon milk are overblown, but there are some food items that will have you digging deeper in your pockets next year.
You want time off during the holidays. So does everybody else. Here’s how to make your request go smoothly, so you can be one of the people sipping hot cocoa in your bathrobe and relaxing with the newspaper on a weekday …
Taxes usually aren’t our top priority, especially when we’re running around doing all sorts of holiday-related tasks. But there are some steps you need to take before the end of the year — putting them on your to-do list …
And it’s time to stop
Sick of your job? Give yourself the holiday gift of a fresh start by pounding the pavement now, experts advise. Counterintuitive as it seems, given the number of empty desks and out-of-office autoreplies most of us will encounter
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Since the financial crisis, customers have gotten used to their banks cutting perks like debit card rewards and raising fees for account maintenance and other services. In the first half of 2013, bank customers paid an average …
After a few years when companies avoided throwing holiday parties, corporate America is kicking back with the eggnog again. Executive search firm Battalia Winston’s annual survey found that 96% of companies are going to have …
This time of year, you can hardly stroll past a store or log onto a retailer’s website without getting bombarded with offers for special financing via that merchant’s proprietary credit card. Many of them tout no-interest financing for a year, two years — sometimes even longer. But not all of these deals are created equal. All come …
Although this year’s holiday shopping season is a week shorter than usual, you wouldn’t know it from the way stores are moving Black Friday so far forward that some sales will start before the Thanksgiving turkey is even thawed …
Rewards are the primary reason people pick one credit card over another, but many of us don’t really understand the rewards programs that are driving our choices. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is investigating how
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