http://www.fortunewatch.com Sensible Personal Finance Sat, 17 May 2008 12:47:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No question, foreclosures are at a record number right now. After a period of aggressive lending, more and more people are finding it impossible to meet their mortgage repayments. The banks and other lenders, in turn, are foreclosing on more and more properties. I think the banks committed “foreclosure suicide” when ... http://www.fortunewatch.com/how-to-make-money-from-foreclosures/ If you need to cut your debt costs, a quick and easy way is to transfer your credit card balances to an introductory rate credit cards. In other words, you can get credit cards with low interest (or better still no interest at all). Such special offers are designed to encourage ... http://www.fortunewatch.com/get-the-best-balance-transfer-credit-cards/ Billionaire investor Carl Icahn reportedly has decided to lead a mutiny against Yahoo Inc.'s board in an attempt to pressure the directors into reviving negotiations to sell Yahoo to Microsoft Corp. To turn up the heat on Yahoo's board, Icahn has lined up a slate of 10 directors to nominate as ... http://www.fortunewatch.com/billionaire-investor-to-lead-fight-against-yahoo-board/ An online advertising partnership between Yahoo and Google is facing opposition from consumer and civic groups that did not wait for an official deal announcement to voice their discontent. Top Google executives said they were interested in a partnership with their closest rival but didn't indicate how close they were to ... http://www.fortunewatch.com/yahoo-google-deal-facing-opposition/ Microsoft Corporation will focus on growing its own advertising and Internet search business after it withdrew its takeover offer for Yahoo, chairman Bill Gates said yesterday. Microsoft has not presented an alternative strategy to compete with its dominant rival in the Internet business, Google, since withdrawing a $47.5 billion bid for ... http://www.fortunewatch.com/microsoft-to-set-up-own-internet-search-business/ Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the Democratic Presidential nomination are now anywhere between 5 per cent to 20 percent. By rights she should be on her back, declared the loser by technical knockout. But not only is she standing; she is plunging ahead with a dogged ferocity. In spite of Barack ... http://www.fortunewatch.com/hillary-clinton-cant-see-that-its-over/ New polls gave Hillary Clinton fresh hope yesterday, as she chased White House rival Barack Obama, on the eve of two primaries which could shape the end-game of their marathon battle. Clinton and Obama face voting contests today in North Carolina and Indiana, the next steps in their battle for the ... http://www.fortunewatch.com/new-polls-give-clinton-fresh-hope/ Read Inflation allows you to live in a more expensive neigbourhood without moving. http://www.fortunewatch.com/the-lighter-or-heavier-side-of-inflation/ A chronology of events leading to Microsoft Corp.'s decision to abandon its offer for Web search and advertising competitor Yahoo Inc.: Feb. 1, 2008: After two years of talks and speculation, Microsoft makes unsolicited offer to buy Yahoo for $31 per share, or $44.6 billion. Feb 3: Google Inc.'s top lawyer says ... http://www.fortunewatch.com/microsoft-yahoo-bid-sequence-of-events/ US employers cut far fewer jobs last month than in recent months and the unemployment rate dropped to five per cent, a better-than-expected showing that nonetheless reveals strains in the nation's labor market. For the fourth month in a row, the economy lost jobs, the Labor Department reported yesterday. But in ... http://www.fortunewatch.com/us-jobless-rate-drops-to-five-per-cent/