For most people, wealth does not come in a windfall but instead gathers gradually as a result of years of hard work and diligence. Bankrate readers offer their tips for growing wealth. You’ll find no winning lottery numbers or surefire stock recommendations among them, but all are sensible Read More

These last few weeks, it’s been all over the news. Bernie Madoff made-off with billions of dollars of his investors’ money. His giant Ponzi scheme ran for more than 30 years. It finally crumbled at the end of last year. I can’t believe the number of people caught in his web of Read More

American job titles and responsibilities are constantly morphing to suit the economic and cultural transitions of our madcap age. Euphemisms are often the way recruiters dress up old job titles to narrow the field to specialists. A “hash slinger” is now termed a “culinary Read More

Jan. 1 (Bloomberg) — Merrill Lynch & Co.’s 95-year run as an independent company is coming to an end as Bank of America Corp. completed its acquisition of the broker for about $33 billion in stock. Bank of America, the biggest U.S. home lender, closed the purchase today, the Read More

Thu Jan 1, 2009 4:38pm GMT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp (BAC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) completed its purchase of Merrill Lynch & Co and Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) finished buying Wachovia Corp, the latest sea changes in a transformed banking Read More

Thu Jan 1, 2009 1:13pm GMT NEW YORK, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said it has completed its roughly $12.7 billion purchase of Wachovia Corp, a big bet that it properly assessed the risks in Wachovia’s huge book of mortgage and real estate Read More

This is best Mortgage comparison Calculator I have seen! I was actually planning to write a simple program for this and found one. Banks/Mortgage companies provide more options, such as points, loan fee, processing fees, which is not easy to comprehend unless you are a mortgage expert. Even Read More

In this day and age, with the credit card market growing as large as it now has, it is no wonder that credit card companies have started trying to entice buyers by offering incentive programs on their cards. These programs come in many different forms and offer a variety of different products and Read More

Courtesy: Hotjobs Review: ( May not be relevant to down economy period! ) Today’s college graduates dream of breaking the $100k barrier in considering their careers and aspirations. The road to the top-level salaries in the land is arduous and may be fraught with setbacks. Beware of Read More

Source:AP NEW YORK (AP) — The failure of the bailout package in Congress literally dropped jaws on Wall Street and triggered a historic selloff — including a terrifying decline of nearly 500 points in mere minutes as the vote took place, the closest thing to panic the stock market has Read More

Another week and another failed bank. Amazing what we are getting used to these days! As you know by now Washington Mutual was forced to sell to Chase Bank on Thursday night after a “run on the bank” where customers of WAMU took around 16 billion in assets out of the bank in the past couple Read More

Large number of people anxious about this bank takeover. FYI, The takeover is smooth and customers are not affected WaMu is JPMorgan Chase’s second acquisition this year of a major financial institution hobbled by losing bets on mortgages. In March, JPMorgan bought the investment bank Read More

Silicon Valley’s largest public companies had every reason to celebrate in 2007. The Silicon Valley 150 posted its fourth consecutive year of record sales and its second straight year of record profits. Company Symbol Last Volume Market Cap Agilent Technologies, Read More

We have frank answers to your tough questions about banks, brokers and mortgage middlemen. When IndyMac bank failed this summer, the lines of nervous account holders trying to withdraw their money made headlines everywhere. But that was an anomaly. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has taken Read More

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ARRAYIRR Internal Rate of Return (IRR) for a stream of cash flows. Each cash flow value is assumed to be the cash flow at the end of the current period. If the cash flow contains multiple sequences of positive and negative cash flow values there may be multiple valid IRR results. In Read More