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| This week's top Personal Finance stories - Marketwatch Posted: 19 Jun 2010 04:53 AM PDT
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By MarketWatch In case you missed them, here are the top 10 Personal Finance stories from MarketWatch for the week of June 14-18: Dads find work-family juggle a struggle, too
Eager to spend more time with his kids and looking for more on-the-job flexibility, Steve Rosen, a 36-year-old father of two, left his job with Comcast in mid-April, and now helps his wife run her pet-services business, Fur-Get Me Not.
Five tips to protect new dads' health
Attention, expectant dads: Moms aren't the only ones who experience health risks before or after birth. Even though fathers-to-be don't go through the physical changes of carrying a child, some have insomnia, nausea, irritability or even labor pains, a condition called Couvade syndrome, or sympathetic pregnancy.
Without jobs, housing rebound may take years
With the job market in dire straits, household incomes declining and foreclosures dragging down home values, the housing market may take years to recover, according to the annual State of the Nation's Housing report released Monday by Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Facing new pressure, health plans beef up customer service
Cutting inscrutable health-insurance jargon out of their communications. Opening retail stores to answer people's questions and offer wellness classes. Measuring customer-service efforts to give callers a better experience.
Doctors, the unemployed squeezed by Congress's inaction
About 1.2 million jobless workers are expected to lose unemployment benefits this month, and doctors will start to see a 21% cut in Medicare payments Friday, following the Senate's inability to move forward with the far-reaching jobs and tax-extenders bill.
Portfolio rebalancing: How to do it right
Right about now, your broker or mutual-fund firm is sending you a note suggesting that midyear is a good time to rebalance your portfolio. But are they right? Maybe.
Debit-card fee debate could cost consumers
Most shoppers don't realize they are in the middle of a heated debate over the fees merchants pay to banks on debit-card transactions, but the outcome may bring steeper costs and fewer rewards for consumers.
Bank reform loopholes are roadmap to trouble
If you want to figure out where the next big financial crisis is coming, watch the proceedings in Washington over the next two weeks. Whatever pieces of the proposed financial reform legislation get watered down or eliminated during current negotiations will create the holes that future bad actors slip through.
One in five older Americans a victim of financial fraud: survey
Whether it's a rebate check from Medicare, an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, or any other headline news, there's likely a scam artist not far behind. And more often than not, the victim is an older American.
Federal Reserve caps credit-card penalty fees at $25
Consumers, particularly those who are consistently late in paying their credit-card bills, now can breathe a sigh of relief: The Federal Reserve said Tuesday it is limiting penalty fees to no more than $25 in most cases as well as banning so-called "inactivity" fees.
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