Latest interest rates
RETIREMENT
4/14 special section
Living Longer
Your guide to health, wealth, and happiness in later years. This year's edition highlights empty nesting, the importance of health, and financing as a baby boomer.
Nominate your company
Top Places to Work 2013 nominations
Do you work at one of the top companies in Massachusetts with over 50 employees? Nominate your company for The Boston Globe's Top Places to Work 2013.
Personal Finance
Smart Tips about Gift Cards
Ask about fees. Some expenses may be deducted when the card is used, including purchase fees, transaction fees, inactivity fees and shipping and handling costs.
Ask about fees. Some expenses may be deducted when the card is used, including purchase fees, transaction fees, inactivity fees and shipping and handling costs.
Managing your finances
Financial tools and articles from Bankrate.com on topics ranging from college financing to retirement.
Blogs
Markdowns on totes at Lill Studio
Lill Studio has its three tote bag styles marked down 25 percent through June 30th. (They're originally $75-$169.) You can buy a ready-made bag or...
House approves bill on student loans interest rates
The Republican-backed the bill would allow students to dodge a scheduled rate hike for students with new subsidized Stafford loans next month, but rates could rise in coming years.
Life insurance for
student loans?
If you have private student loans, you may want to buy life insurance to repay that debt if you die prematurely.
Summer travel forecast: Better, but no blowout
Airlines, hotels and campgrounds are commanding higher rates and seeing more customers than a few summers ago, and luxury hotels are selling out. Local businessmen and state officials are optimistic.
Less aid by Fed would point to recovery
Investors are still nervous the Fed will scale back its efforts to boost the economy sooner than expected.
10 great cars of Gatsby's Roaring '20s
In honor of the latest adaptation of "The Great Gatsby," classic-car insurer Hagerty Insurance Agency studied the luxurious cars of the '20s.
Retirement savers have seen a big bounce since the recession, Fidelity says
Rising markets pushed the average balance to a record $80,900 at the end of the first quarter of the year, an 8.4 percent increase from a year ago.
FINANCIAL NEWS FROM BANKRATE.COM
- Prize-linked checking: A chance to win bank cash (Bankrate.com, 5/24/2013)
- Stuff your emergency fund with cash (Bankrate.com, 5/24/2013)
- Try again: 6 tips for relisting an unsold home (Bankrate.com, 5/24/2013)
- Does an industrial range belong in your kitchen? (Bankrate.com, 5/23/2013)
- Credit card interest rates for May 23, 2013 (Bankrate.com, 5/23/2013)
- Does an industrial range belong in your kitchen? (Bankrate.com, 5/23/2013)
- Hey! Get that old debt off my credit report (Bankrate.com, 5/22/2013)
- When it's OK to tap your IRA (Bankrate.com, 5/15/2013)
- Obama, Romney on future of the Fed (Bankrate.com, 10/17/2012)
- How about a loan with that diamond ring? (Bankrate.com, 10/01/2012)
Trapped in your house?
The good news is the number of Greater Boston homeowners owing more than what their castles are worth has dropped below 16 percent. The bad...
Trying to explain your job? Don't.
No one can picture your job, says Paul Hellman, because they haven't seen it on TV. Here's the solution.
Investment tools
-
- indexes Dow
- |
- Nasdaq
- |
- S&P
- |
- Massachusetts
-
- stocks Most active
- |
- Gainers
- |
- Losers
- |
- Splits
-
- manage Stocks
- |
- Funds
- |
- My portfolio
- |
- Calculators
-
- Track Energy
- |
- Metals
- |
- Bonds
- |
- Currencies
More personal finance news