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Be careful while you are setting your financial New Year's resolutions together with your spouse. Make realistic financial resolutions or goals for 2017 that you should be able to achieve as a couple. Here are 5 financial New Year's resolutions you should avoid as a couple.

Sales of new homes in the United States rose 3.6 percent in July to match a two-year high reached in May, the latest sign of a steady recovery…

If you just can not make it apace with current technological progress, online loans will help you with purchasing a new PC. The machine that you bought half a year ago will be considered pretty outdated already and there is no getting around it.

New Hampshire lawmakers want to return transformed payday loans. The proposal has already passed the Senate. Will the House approve it?

Illinois payday loan interest is reduced by the new law. Check out new requirements for both borrowers and lenders here.

Three new bills aimed to restrict payday loans in Texas were intended in the legislature of the state. The first one, House Bill 2594, has passed readily.

Credit scores were also affected by the financial reform performed mostly by the Dodd-Frank Act. The new rules lead to confusion among consumers.

New York payday loans are provided online and affordable even for people with bad credit. No faxing is required either.

Credit unions have launched a new lending program in order to provide alternative to payday loans which had been almost eliminated.

"People are earning money like they haven't before and didn't realize their taxes would be up significantly," said John Wojtkun, owner of the Liberty Tax Service on North Midkiff Road. "There are new deductions to consider, higher tax brackets and new homes or vehicles to write off. The economy (in Midland) has changed how people file their taxes."

The news on property taxes is mostly good in Howard County this spring. Most taxpayers will see a decrease in their bills, and many of the rat…

This week's Your Money column discusses a new credit report from a company called CoreLogic, which includes all sorts of information about your financial life that is not captured by the reports from the traditional credit reporting agencies.

One of the UK leading online payday loans specialists Britain Loans has launched a new section to give its consumers the latest information about everything from general economy and political articles, to personal finance and consumer behaviour.

Illinois payday loan lender provides a lawsuit in order to block the new laws which forbid the provision of installment loans.

Small mortgage lenders are concerned over the new rules which would reduce risk-taking. The elimination of Freddie and Fannie would hurt them.

New rules have been proposed to make it harder for consumers to borrow from payday lenders. But payday loans serve a helpful purpose when responsible individuals know they can repay a loan by their next paycheck.

Fashion lovers will use it as an excuse to hop a plane to the City of Light-and with good reason-as the annual winter sales, which began today in Paris, offer Americans the chance to snag their favorite brands at a discount, sans the usual anxiety that crops up while converting dollars to euros.

The financial institutions used a number of brash and subtle methods behind the plastic in consumers' wallets for years trying to increase the cardholders' costs and their own profits.

Actually, the new federal budget may help states manage their increasing debt as the interest on federal unemployment loans are aimed to be deferred till 2014, as states are expected to have money at that time for repaying the installment loans. In fact, the supporters of this plan consider that states will be able to address their own budgetary needs, if the interest on the unemployment loans will be deferred as they won't have to be concerned as for the interest payments directed to the federal government.

New pilot program provided by some large national banks lets checking account holders choose banking fees. Is it possible?