When you’re not sure if you can pay your credit card bill each month, it can be excruciating just to look at your statement. When this happens, your total outstanding balance will jump out at you, and even the amount of your minimum payment can cause your pulse to race. If you are having trouble... Read More

Getting tickets to the Jingle Ball tour each winter is no easy task, as each stop tends to sell out within minutes. But landing one of these coveted tickets just got a bit easier for Capital One cardholders. Consider it an early Christmas miracle. According to an email from a Capital One spokesperson, any Capital... Read More

Green Dot Corp., a company best known for its prepaid debit card products (and celebrity endorser Steve Harvey), is now offering a secured credit card. Like most secured credit cards, the Green Dot Platinum Visa Secured Credit Card is “designed to help people with no prior credit history or those with poor credit scores build... Read More

Homes are unaffordable in more American cities than any time since the recession began, and housing costs are rising far faster than incomes, according to a study released Thursday by ATTOM Data Solutions. During the third quarter of 2016, 24% of U.S. counties were less affordable than historic averages, up from 19% one year ago,... Read More

Cagney Wenk and his fiancée, Jessica Li, recently welcomed their son, Levon Robbie Wenk, into the world. It wasn’t all joy for the new family, however. Cagney had been recently diagnosed with inoperable, stage 4 glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. Already hospitalized and with three surgeries already performed, Cagney was still determined to... Read More

Now if you take a ride with Uber in New York City or Chicago, a new partnership with Sears can allow you to earn shopping cash for its stores or Shop Your Way rewards website, the company announced Wednesday. Riders who link their Uber account to Sears’ free Shop Your Way program have the potential to receive unlimited Shop Your... Read More

Love Seamless? If so, you may have spotted a new change to the food delivery service’s tip mechanism. The company has quietly increased some users’ default tip from 15% to 20% as part of a test. On top of that, the custom tip field, where users can enter their tip amount of choice, now requires users to click the wording in order to open... Read More

The Wells Fargo sales scandal will cost chairman and chief executive John Stumpf $41 million and former community banking supervisor Carrie Tolstedt $19 million, as per a decision made by the bank’s board that was announced on Tuesday. The money will come from the executives’ unvested equity awards through a clawback process. For Stumpf, the $41... Read More

You may want to think twice before searching for the recent Mets kiss cam video starring comedian Amy Schumer. No, it isn’t something that’s NSFW — you never know with Schumer — but it turns out she is the most dangerous celebrity on the internet. At least that’s what the 10th annual McAfee Most Dangerous Celebrities... Read More

Princesses be warned: Your reign of popularity among kids celebrating Halloween is over. 2016 is the year of the superhero, according to the National Retail Federation’s 2016 Halloween Consumer Top Costumes Survey. The annual review of popular Halloween costumes, conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics, found that spending on costumes is expected to reach $3.1... Read More