Lifestyle and Budget

Learn how the increase of the federal fund rate will affect interest rates on credit cards and why you should pay your debt down as fast as possible.

Competition is likely to keep today's low rates in check for the time being.

Taxpayers will fork over nearly $10 billion more next year to cover double-digit premium hikes for subsidized health insurance under President Barack Obama's law, according to a study being released Thursday.

If you're about to buy a home, shop for a car or borrow for college, the pros have some advice: Go ahead.

The Federal Reserve has raised a key interest rate in response to a strengthening U.S. economy and expectations of higher inflation, and it foresees three more rate hikes in 2017.

Housing is a $26 trillion market.

High-end SUVs are on pace to outsell luxury cars in the U.S. for the first time ever.

A key Republican lawmaker wants to overhaul the nation's Social Security program, proposing to gradually increase the retirement age and slow the growth of benefits for higher-income workers.

In the global fight to eradicate HIV/AIDS, one fundraising organization is harnessing the Cloud.

A former Bayer executive is ditching the corporate world of genetically modified organisms to find new alternatives to produce crops naturally using bumble bees as control agents.

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Friday that a software update for Galaxy Note 7 smartphones will be released mid-December in the United States preventing them from charging and functioning as mobile phones, rendering them useless.

The American estate tax turned 100 this year. It probably won't live to see 101.

Back in September, Chase ran out of the metal versions of their new Sapphire Reserve credit card because of such high demand. And, while it seems the card is still drawing a lot of attention (and applicants), it’s costing Chase money — as much as $300 million, in fact.

Long-term U.S. mortgage rates climbed for the sixth straight week in the aftermath of Donald Trump's election win, marking new highs for the year.

American consumers show no signs of putting away their wallets as the holiday shopping season approaches the halfway point.