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Whether you think Gayego has a shot in Saturday's Preakness Stakes or not, give the colt's connections credit for having the courage to ignore his poor Kentucky Derby effort and give the son of Gilded Time another chance against Big Brown. If Gayego ... (more...)

Washington Mutual Inc. has slashed or suspended $6 billion in available home equity credit to its customers in an effort to reduce its risk in a flailing housing market. If they haven't already been notified, WaMu's customers across the country will ... (more...)

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Buying gasoline with a credit card could be hurting your local independent gas station owner - and you may have to pay for it. That's because credit cards charge merchant fees in the form of a percentage of sales - and ... (more...)

(Bloomberg News) I should have known: Call people suckers and they'll take offense. A number of folks were either confused or offended when I said recently that we are all suckers -- that is, losers -- when we use credit to pay for services and goods ... (more...)

WASHINGTON ? Americans' increasing preference for paying with plastic has pitted retailers against credit card companies in a dispute over the cost of the billions of transactions. Retailers accused Visa and MasterCard during a congressional ... (more...)

WASHINGTON - The House's tax-writing committee on Thursday approved a multifaceted tax package it said would save people almost $10 billion through expansion of the child tax credit and creation of a new deduction for property taxes. But the Ways and ... (more...)

As many as 350,000 households are not getting the $300 per child refund owed as part of economic stimulus rebate payments, the Internal Revenue Service said Thursday. The IRS says taxpayers' error and problems with commercial tax preparation software ... (more...)

For more information see the Citibank Credit Card Issuance Trust Citiseries Class A (2008-7) Notes presale report, available to all investors on Fitch's corporate site, www.fitchratings.com. Fitch's rating definitions and the terms of use of such ... (more...)

Two luxury homes will go under the hammer next week at Tangalooma on Moreton Island as part of a mortgagee auction. The homes are two of four properties owned by Island Dream Homes . Both houses are in Cowry St and are thought to be the biggest homes ... (more...)

Electronic passports for U.S. travelers frequenting Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean soon will replace the old-style paper identification, but some think the cards could fall prey to counterfeiters, The Washington Times reported. The State Department ... (more...)