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Dave Says: Getting out of debt is tough, but it's important to stay on track without causing problems in other financial areas.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is looking into overdraft fees, and stocks got a lot cheaper yesterday.

Identity thieves are following the money when it comes to selecting their next victim. Here's why the wealthy can be easy targets with big paydays.

When it comes to protecting our identities, many of us are looking to play defense when we should be playing offense. 

Officials from countries around the world recently signed off on the most important climate agreement since the Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1997. Wall Street is weighing in, with Goldman Sachs saying that it sees “the deal as a boost to the low carbon economy, now a fast-growing $600 billion-plus market.”

As automakers roll out a new generation of tech-savvy smart cars, others tackle a seemingly more impossible feat: giving roads brains of their own. 

Driverless cars are here to stay, and are expected to trigger the biggest change to the auto industry in more than 100 years. 

It’s the dirty secret in banking. Bank employees often steal personal account information from bank customers so as to rob money from bank accounts or commit fraud via identity theft, and few banks seem immune.

It’s getting real cheap to borrow ... so why aren’t folks borrowing?

It’s getting real cheap to borrow ... so why aren’t folks borrowing?

Stocks had a so-so year in 2015 with two of the major indexes, the S&P 500 and Dow finishing flat to down, respectively. So, you’d think it would be a perfect time for active mutual fund managers to shine, but that’s not what happened. 

Bond funds are bleeding value as the market adjusts to the end of quantitative easing and interest rates lurch back up to something like historical norms.

Over the last 5, 7 and 10 years, Buffett has underperformed in returns, and took significantly more risk and had a much greater dispersion of returns -- which is what gives most people sleepless nights.

Activist investor Nelson Peltz secretly met with board members of DuPont Co. to once again push his plans for major structural reforms at the chemical giant.

Fears are growing that the U.S. is on the cusp of a recession, and that's is why stock buybacks have never been more in focus, with 2016 now on pace to be one of the fastest starts on record for share repurchases.

So what did Blackberry investors get in exchange for the whopping $55.6 million compensation package given to its placeholder chief executive?

I heard a lot about the glories of Nike on Friday. And while it had a good day, I’d hold off on pulling the trigger.

It was a pretty sloppy week on Wall Street. But who can be surprised? It’s been a pretty sloppy month for the stock market.

Wall Street firms are prodding Chinese Internet company Alibaba to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.