After the holidays, some chains will still be offering up good deals in January. Aeropostale Coupon code gives $10 off for every $100 spent, through Jan. 15. Sears A coupon gets you $5 off each time you spend $50, plus free shipping for $99 and up orders. Goes through Jan. 31. The code: Santa...
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Sales of luxury goods this year nearly reached the 2007 peak, at $235 billion, says a Bain consulting study. The ultrarich on Forbes’ world billionaire lists did their part, splurging on art, jewelry, horses, even incense burners and truffles. Here are some of their most expensive purchases in 2010. Steven Cohen Art: $145.4 million...
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Price specials don’t go away when Christmas arrives. Dealio.com, an online shopping guide, has identified the best deals retailers plan to offer during the last week of December. Jewelry Both Zales and Gordon’s are offering savings of up to 60% on many items. Meantime, Lemoges Jewelry features $10 off sterling silver engraved message rings...
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We turned to Charlottesville, Va., research firm SNL for data to gauge the health of the 100 largest banks and thrifts. SNL supplied us with numbers for eight measures of financial health: return on average equity; net interest margin; nonperforming loans (NPLs)as a percentage of loans; nonperforming assets as percentage of assets; reserves as...
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According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), winter solstice and a lunar eclipse should be visible in Birmingham Alabama beginning about 12:15 AM DDecember 21, 2010,and lasting seventy-two minutes until 1:41 AM. The coincidence of an eclipse and the winter solstice is a rare event. The next total lunar eclipse will not...
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It’s party time around the world. Here’s how the celebrations pan out in some of the best holiday destinations. The Bahamas “Junkanoo” features a raucous street parade, complete with elaborate costumes, themed music and prizes. The largest parade is held in Nassau, where Junkanoo bands “rush” the streets during early morning. Versions of the...
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Facebook is going to make photo tagging easier by incorporating facial recognition technology, according to the Facebook blog: “Because photos are such an important part of Facebook, we want to be sure you know exactly how tag suggestions work: When you or a friend upload new photos, we use face recognition software—similar to that...
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Manpower’s quarterly global employment outlook survey offers a rough, macro look at new job creation around the world. The staffing firm surveyed 64,000 human resource directors and senior hiring managers from public and private companies to come up with its list. Manpower asked the executives about their employment expectations and subtracted the percentage who...
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Today is National Cupcake Day, and Los Angeles has no shortage of places to celebrate. Since Yummy Cupcakes opened in 2004 and Sprinkles opened in 2005, more bakeries have jumped on the cupcake bandwagon to deliver sweet delights to patrons all over the city. Now, we’d prefer it if every day is Cupcake Day....
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We’ve crunched the numbers to bring you the U.S. cities where shopping is at its best. Surprise, surprise: New York, Miami and Los Angeles are nowhere near the top. Instead of fabulousness, our best cities are based on the nation’s largest cities (600,000 to 8 million) what they have to offer in terms of...
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