Nowadays, many home buyers and sellers depend on Web sites such as Trulia.com, Zillow.com and Realtor.com for real estate listings…information about prices and local market conditions…and real est...

A little-noticed feature of the fiscal cliff tax deal could benefit many employees who have traditional 401(k) retirement plans. The provision in the new law allows employees to convert pretax assets ...

Total Savings: $3,890 a Year Frugality has become necessity for many Americans. The recent recession has drained retirement savings and left millions of people unemployed. That prompted Jeff Yeager, ...

For many investors, now may be the time to be more daring. Various problems that threatened to derail the stock market’s impressive gains have receded, even though they have not disappeared. And int...

For many investors, there no longer is a question of whether to invest some money in funds that focus on the world’s emerging markets—the question is which funds. Since the first emerging-market ...

Four stocks with great promise Hundreds of US companies are trying to develop compounds to attack cancer in innovative ways that are more effective and less toxic than existing treatments. Their effo...

When it comes to making our money grow, the year ahead offers many challenges. Low interest rates will continue to vex savers and fixed-income investors in 2013, while struggling economies in Europe a...

It aims for steady gains even in a difficult market Many jittery investors have been telling top financial adviser Louis Stanasolovich that they are more confused than at any time since the 2008–20...

One even offers 6% cash back on groceries Attractive credit card offers are available again for consumers who seek better ways to spend and save. But there also are plenty of atrocious offers for the...

Judging by patterns over the past 179 years of stock market history, investors may be in trouble this year. The year after a president’s election tends to be the worst of his four-year term for the ...