Category: personal finance

Working on Your Startup? Here’s How to Build Your Brand on a Budget

By Kathleen Furore From Tribune Content Agency I’ve had several people ask how small startup companies with very minimal marketing budgets can create a brand that will help move them forward. I put that question out to industry experts, who offered advice on steps they can take to build an image they want their company…


5 Ways to Professionally Manage Your Financial Assets

Your business is growing—that’s great news! It also means it’s time to triple-check that you’re protecting your assets and managing your finances in a scalable way. Here’s how. As a business grows, leadership needs to ensure they manage financial assets and that equity within the company is well-managed and secure. No matter where your business…


How to Fight Inflation Through Year’s End

Inflation. It’s a constant news headline, the joke of every meme, and the word we curse under our breath every time we have to put the fancy bacon back on the shelf and grab the generic turkey bacon instead. Whether we want to admit it or not, inflation is here, and it’s sticking around, folks….


How to Handle Job Hopping, Short-Term Work on Your Resume

By Kathleen Furore From Tribune Content Agency Over the past year or so, I’ve heard people talking about how they’ve changed jobs several times. Some kept job hopping because they didn’t like what they were doing, some wanted more money, and one was let go of two jobs within a year—yet none of them had…


7 Credit Card Moves to Stretch Your Budget

As prices on goods and services soar, every bit of value squeezed from credit cards helps. Perhaps paying an annual fee became less appetizing. Maybe you scaled back expenses in certain categories a credit card once rewarded, or you’re seeking opportunities to save with your credit cards. When you aren’t focused on debt and are…


The Best Airlines for Holiday Travel on Points

If you’re seeing Halloween decorations at the store, you should take that as a sign the holiday travel season is just around the corner. Cue the expensive flights! If you’re relying on points and miles to cover the cost, you might want to consider whether booking award flights for the holidays is the best use…


Quick Ways to Raise Cash

By Emma Patch From Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Inflation is still high and dampening consumers’ purchasing power. But if you need more money to pay the bills these days, here are some quick ways to raise cash: Redeem Credit-Card Rewards If you have a cash-back credit card, you may be able to redeem the cash as…


Closing Prices for Crude Oil, Gold and Other Commodities (Oct. 28)

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for December delivery fell $1.18 to $87.90 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for December delivery fell $1.19 to $95.77 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline for November delivery fell 10 cents to $2.91 a gallon. November heating oil rose 22 cents to $4.55 a gallon. December natural gas fell 20 cents to $5.68…


Should We Trust the Market’s Rebound?

As we approach the end of October, the S&P 500 Index, a reasonable barometer of the broader equity markets, is up nearly 7 percent since the end of September. The normally more staid Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 11.5 percent over the same period. While both are still down, 16 percent and 10 percent,…


US Core Inflation Accelerates as Price Pressures Percolate

A key measure of inflation in the United States that is closely monitored by the Federal Reserve accelerated once again in September, as the price of goods and services rose upward, The Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Index showed that core prices, excluding the volatile food and energy prices, rose 0.5 percent from the previous month,…