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Five ways to get the most from your credit card

Credit card companies are using incentives to keep customers using their plastic. Here are five incentives you can use to get the most out of your credit card:
Three best ways (and three worst ways) to finance holiday shopping

Consumers tend to rack up a lot of credit card debt during the fourth quarter, largely due to holiday expenses. This year, by one estimate, the average holiday shopper is on track to spend around $800. For many, that means financing, which remains a double-edged sword despite historically low interest rates and an array of new consumer protections. It can either save you a lot of money in interest and fees or trip you up with caveats buried in fine print that drastically inflate your expenses. Here are three of the best and three of the worst financing offers for holiday shoppers in 2012:
Five ways big banks' Libor scandal affects you

London, this year's host of the Olympics, is also home to a bank scandal that threatens to rock the financial world as much as the Games influence the world of sports. Here's why: Libor (London Interbank Offered Rate) is a global benchmark for interest rates that reaches deep into the international financial system. Allegations that banks rigged those rates means that everyone from mortgage-holders and indebted students to cities and mutual funds may have had their interest rates unnaturally altered. Already tainted by other scandals, banks are under investigation because of charges that they profited illegally from their rate-rigging scheme. The mess further taints big banks and puts more strain on the credibility of the global financial system. Here are five ways the Libor scandal could affect you:
For these four nations, 2012 is worse than the Great Recession

The Great Recession of 2008/09 delivered the worst blow to the global economy since the 1930s. But in a few nations, 2012 is turning out to be worse than 2009 in terms of economic growth. Europe's debt crisis, the general slowing of the world economy, and domestic political troubles have played a role in undercutting 2012 growth for one or more of these four nations. Can you guess who they are?
5 great travel rewards credit cards

Summer travel can be cheap with the help of credit card rewards. Here are five great credit card rewards programs to fit your vacationing style.

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Stock market stages three-day rebound
Just how vulnerable are US banks?

A 'stress test' aims to assess which banks would need help if the economy worsened.
Is a 'bad bank' for risky assets the solution to the financial mess?

The Obama administration is considering it as a way to avoid outright nationalization of the banking industry.
Axed by a big business? Start your own.

Unemployed seek fulfillment in new careers from pet care to finding jobs for moms.
Great recession? Mini-depression? What to call this crisis.
Britons snort at Blair's award

President Bush awarded the Medal of Freedom to Blair, whose legacy is clouded by the Iraq war.
Bailout may cost trillions ... or not

Even if it adds up to $8 trillion, the final cost will be lower as US sells the assets it's now buying.
Legacy of Chicago sit-in: empowering laid-off workers

Six-day factory occupation ends after employees gain $1.75 million severance package.
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Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell examines patterns in the lives of extraordinary achievers.
The Monitor's View: The trust factor in mortgage bailouts

The latest rescue plan for bad mortgages relies on fixing the bond between lenders and borrowers.
The Partnership

The history of Goldman Sachs and its rise from Manhattan basement to ‘global juggernaut.’
Amid economic crisis, wind power spins more slowly

Many of the big players who were drawn to alternative energy by tax creditsare now sidelined or kaput.
Ecofriendly is good business
Dow's historic drop reflects financial system's challenges

After 778-point plunge, markets need private investment and bank restructuring for a recovery.
Could bailout's pay caps launch Wall Street trend?

Some see the beginning of the end for huge compensation for financial titans. Others say the limits are too weak to bring real change.
Will bank bailout revive growth?

Banks will still need to recapitalize and start lending again.
Postcrisis economy: calmer but slower

With no investment banks and tighter regulation, experts see a less dynamic recovery ahead.
With finance crisis, hands-off era over

More oversight lies ahead, no matter who's in the Oval Office.
Lehman: The next bailout?

The rescue of Fannie and Freddie may have opened a new era of federal intervention in business.
Fannie, Freddie rescue binds taxpayers to housing market

The final tab may exceed that of the savings and loan bailout, depending on the depth of the housing slump.
Kremlin corporate crackdown sends markets tumbling

JP Morgan Chase & Co. downgrades Russian stocks as government looks set to nationalize private steel and oil companies.
In banking crisis, U.S. steps up

Moves by federal regulators signal that the financial sector can't solve its problems on its own.
Who's really too big to fail?

Let some troubled financial firms fail, U.S. regulators tell Congress. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are exceptions.
Time for new financial system safeguards?

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson indicate need for new regulation of banking industry.