Financial News of the Week
Breaking business, economic and personal finance news, including reports on oil prices, stocks, technology, retirement, small business and more.
8:15pm: Home prices - and tax assessments - surged during real estate boom, but after the downturn sky-high property taxes haven't followed home prices down to earth. (more)
6:29pm: Rate of credit card default seen surging as fallout from the subprime meltdown is spreading. ( more)
5:55pm: Survey finds that the average price of regular gasoline falls to $2.97 a gallon. ( more)
5:42pm: Media conglomerate says it will sell stations to private-equity Oak Hill Capital Partners for $1.1 billion in cash. ( more)
5:26pm: With just days until the Christmas holiday, retailers' hopes are high as they report stores crowded by last-minute shoppers. ( more)
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