Financial Planning

May 9, 2019

What market tumble? Workers up 401(k) savings to record

Last year's scary tumble for the stock market wasn't enough to scare workers off of saving for retirement


May 7, 2019

Bride market trafficks Pakistani Christian women to China

Hundreds young women from Pakistan's small Christian minority have been trafficked to China as brides in recent months as their community is targeted in an aggressive new marriage market, activists and officials say


Apr 24, 2019

Witness at NCAA trial says he paid football recruits

A key witness for prosecutors at a trial stemming from a crackdown on corruption in college basketball says he paid college football players to secure their business when they joined the NFL.


Mar 8, 2019

Investing became cheaper, easier during bull market run

As bull market turns 10 years old this weekend, it's never been cheaper or easier to buy stocks


Mar 8, 2019

Amid the wreckage, a hunt for keepsakes of tornado victims

Volunteers helped clear debris-clogged roads and donated money to help pay for the funerals of 23 people killed by a devastating tornado in Alabama, where grieving survivors hunted amid twisted wreckage for keepsakes to help them remember the dead


Mar 1, 2019

NFL salary cap jumps $11 million to $188.2 million

The NFL's salary cap will jump by $11 million next season to $188.2 million. In the ninth year of the 10-year labor agreement, the cap moves up from $177.2 million


Feb 14, 2019

Double tap: Investors face taxes for funds that fell in 2018

As if the worst year for stocks in nearly a decade weren't bad enough, many investors now have to pay a tax bill on top of it


Jan 31, 2019

As Wall Street spasmed with fear, 401(k) savers held steady

While professional traders scrambled to sell stocks amid a fear-fueled late last year, nearly 20 percent drop for the S&P 500, most people at home remained pretty calm when it came to their own retirement savings


Jan 30, 2019

Gov. Bevin, Kentucky clerk at odds over attorneys' fees

Attorneys for Republican Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin say a former county clerk who stopped issuing marriage licenses because of her opposition to gay marriage broke the law and the state shouldn't have to pay legal fees for people who sued her


Jan 20, 2019

Paying for funerals impossible for many poor families

Some relatives of people whose cremated remains were found among hundreds in a Detroit funeral home say they would have loved to bury them in marked graves but couldn't afford traditional funeral services



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