Oil prices hovered below $82 a barrel Wednesday in Asia after a report showed U.S. crude supplies fell more than expected last week.
President Barack Obama is prodding House and Senate Democrats to get him a final health care bill as soon as possible, encouraging them to bypass the usual negotiations between the two chambers in the interest of speed.
It’s the Christmas time and there will be a lot of spending on gift items, parties and vacations. In these tough times, every single penny that you can save matters. Many insurance providers are likely to throw away money on in-store insurance policies that offer the same cover as their home insurance.
According to the recent research done by a home insurance provider, nearly one third of the total population who purchase insurance policies buy additional insurance to cover the loss, damage or theft of expensive items like jewelry, costly watches or mobile phones. There are many others who have already got their home contents insurance apart from getting the personal possessions cover. In other words, they are doubling up their cover and buying an unnecessary product.
If you are already going through a tight budgeting, these kinds of expenses can be effectively avoided and it can save a lot of money on your shopping bill. Falling into this kind of trap can be easily avoided.
Shop with different home insurance companies before purchasing any cover. You may find the list of all the items that will be covered in your personal possessions cover. Keep on updating your contents policy if it has gone out of date and if you have purchased new items. There are many insurance companies that will cover the whole household items while you are getting your home insured.
The insurance agents will try to sell additional items while you are purchasing a cover. Try to avoid their hard selling techniques. Make sure that you know what kind of insurance cover you need and that you don’t end up wasting money on unnecessary add-ons. Go through the small print before signing the retailer’s policy because it might include some difficult clauses when you need a claim. Don’t be swayed by the price tag either as whereas a retailer’s cover may only cost a few pennies it’s still not worth paying for cover you already have.
U.S. consumers and businesses are filing for bankruptcy at a pace that made 2009 the seventh-worst year on record, with more than 1.4 million petitions submitted.
Some airlines are keeping their New Year’s resolution to raise fares. FareCompare.com, a fare-tracking Web site, says United Airlines added as much as $10 round-trip to U.S. fares. Most of the increases United filed on Wednesday were $6 round-trip.
The Transportation Security Administration says passengers flying into the United States from certain countries will be subject to enhanced screening techniques, such as body scans and pat-downs.
Dubai is set to open the world’s tallest building amid tight security on Monday, celebrating the tower as a bold feat on the world stage despite the city state’s shaky financial footing.
Many questions remain for cable TV viewers nationwide even after Fox and Time Warner Cable settled their noisy spat with a New Year’s Day agreement.
Cash-strapped communities have a message for corporations that promised jobs in return for tax breaks: A deal’s a deal. As the economy sputters along, municipalities struggling to fix roads, fund schools and pay bills increasingly are rescinding tax abatements to companies that don’t hire enough workers, that lay them off or that close up shop.
On a strip of California’s Mojave Desert, two dozen rare tortoises could stand in the way of a sprawling solar-energy complex in a case that highlights mounting tensions between wilderness conservation and the nation’s quest for cleaner power.
The Fox television network and Time Warner Cable reached a programming deal in principle on Friday, after leaving millions of people in the lurch about whether they’d be able to see an anticipated college football bowl game and other shows on cable TV.
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Wisconsin farmer Butch Weege has never met Sun Dan, a 34-year-old makeup artist who lives in Beijing, but his business depends largely on affluent Chinese like her who take ginseng grown in his state to cope with their hectic urban lives.
Fox television’s threatened blackout was avoided just before a midnight Thursday deadline when the network struck a deal with Time Warner Cable to briefly extend their contract as fee negotiations between the two companies continued.
AT&T Inc. said Thursday it would no longer sponsor Tiger Woods, joining Accenture and Gillette in dropping support for the golfer after numerous allegations of infidelities.