Consumer sentiment edges up to year highArticle from Reuters: NEW YORK | Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:41am EST NEW YORK (Reuters) – Consumer sentiment improved a tad in February to rack up a year high as Americans became more confident about the economy’s resilience, a survey released on Friday showed. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan’s [...]

APNewsBreak: NY requires life insurance companies to start paying fully on …Article from Washington Post:ALBANY, N.Y. — New York regulators on Friday told insurance companies they must pay out fully when members of the military are killed in action as the standard practice, rather than automatically establishing a kind of checking account that provides interest [...]

Credit union director urges payday loan rate capArticle from BBC News:24 February 2012 Last updated at 12:07 ET Martin Treadgold thinks that the UK should have a cap on APR rates like many European countries The director of a West Midlands credit union has called on the government to cap the maximum interest rate levied [...]

Bailed-out insurance company AIG posts $ 20 billion profit on a tax-related …Article from Washington Post:NEW YORK — American International Group, the insurance company that was bailed out by the government in 2008, reported a $ 19.8 billion profit in the fourth quarter of last year, nearly all of it due to a tax-related accounting [...]

Consumer Comfort in US at Almost the Highest in Four YearsArticle from BusinessWeek:February 23, 2012, 12:09 PM EST Initial Jobless Claims in U.S. Hold at Four-Year Low Jobless Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Fall to Four-Year Low Margins Widen at U.S. Companies as Wages Lag Behind: Economy Trade Deficit in U.S. Climbed in December to Six-Month [...]