For the week ending Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018
MONEY MATTERS-RENOVATION LOANS
Entry-level homes are hard to find. As a homebuyer, you can broaden your search by considering homes in need of improvement. With a home renovation loan, you can borrow money to buy a home, plus extra money to fix it up.
THE WEEK IN REVIEW
Apple to build new campus in Austin, Texas and expand to other cities; mortgage rates fall to 3-month low; Hertz working with Clear to use biometric scans for rentals
QUICK FIX
How to decide if it's time to stop itemizing your taxes and take the new, higher standard deduction.
WIRELESS & CASHLESS
A backlash against cashless commerce is emerging in some U.S. cities and states looking to protect mostly low-income consumers still dependent on their wallets.
SMALL BUSINESS MONITOR
Sole proprietors, partners or S corporation shareholders may wonder whether they should structure their companies as C corporations, after last year's tax law sharply lowered their tax rate.
CENTERPIECE
Renting the American Dream
Home ownership may be a cornerstone of the "American Dream," but renting is increasingly the American reality.
MARKET PULSE
California mulls taxing text messages; Chinese music streaming site Tencent raises more than $1 billion in its listing on the New York Stock Exchange; Russian "robot" actually man in costume.
OFF THE CHARTS-OIL PRICES
It's been a turbulent couple of months in the oil markets, with the price of U.S. crude plummeting on fears of too much supply at a time when signs point to a slowing global economy. Will prices steady from here? Analysts at UBS AG predict they will, forecasting oil prices to recover early next year.
INSIDER Q&A-CVS Health-CEO
CVS Health Chief Executive Larry Merlo talks to The Associated Press about how the drugstore chain will change following its $69 billion purchase of insurer Aetna.
$1,000 DERBY
If you invested $1,000 at the start of this year in various types of stocks, bonds and commodities, how much would you have now?
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