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The end of the year is a stressful time. There’s the holidays, year-end accounting, analyzing the previous year, planning for the next year – it can be overwhelming. It reminds me a lot of the sales graph in this cartoon. Don’t worry, though. Whatever stresses have been piling up, … Read entire story.
Source: Small Business Trends
U.S. stocks are closing slightly lower, giving up an early gain. Tax preparer H&R Block slumped 6 percent after the company said that its attempt to sell a banking unit was getting bogged down. Hewlett-Packard …
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A federal appeals court rejected Ford Motor Co's bid to recoup about $450 million of interest from the U.S. government on taxes overpaid by the automaker. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati did not accept Ford's argument that its …
U.S. homeownership fell to a 20-year low in the fourth quarter, but a sharp rebound in the rate at which Americans are setting up home is expected to help drive a pick-up in housing. Household formation, however, more than quadrupled to 1.7 million in the fourth quarter from only 356,000 …