Green Mountain expands Starbucks partnership

Starbucks-branded K-Cups for Green Mountain's popular Keurig machines. The companies announced their partnership would continue. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Green Mountain Coffee Roasters announced Wednesday that it will continue its partnership with Starbucks...

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Make your vacation pals cough up their fair share

(CNNMoney) "Resentment over money is one of the biggest issues that ruin vacations," says Nadine Davidson, author of Travel With Others Without Wishing They'd Stayed Home. So before you book this summer's big trip, air your expectations about who...

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Current deficit plunges 32%

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) A major reason: A big jump in tax revenue. Tax collections rose by $220 billion -- or 16% -- between the start of the fiscal year on Oct. 1 through April 30. Individual and payroll taxes accounted for $184 billion of that increase....

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How much does your money manager cost you?

Charley Ellis, founder of Greenwich Associates, worries about the challenges aging boomers face from low bond yields to uncertain stock returns, and dubious financial come-ons. (Money Magazine) He shook up Wall Street in 1975 with a landmark article...

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Whole Foods shares surge as growth continues

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Shares of the grocery chain surged 8% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the firm posted quarterly earnings that beat expectations and increased its earnings guidance. Revenue this past quarter increased 13% versus a year...

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Jamie Dimon is under fire

Shareholders will vote on whether JPMorgan should appoint an independent chairman at its annual meeting on May 21. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) JPMorgan Chase's (JPM, Fortune 500) larger-than-life CEO appeared to survive the London Whale -- the bank's big...

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Term life insurance prices rising amid low interest rates

Premiums for term life insurance can vary widely. Search online for comparison pricing. (Money Magazine) Following a decade in which prices fell to all-time lows, premiums for new term policies last year rose an average of 3%, says online agency...

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Senate approves Internet sales tax proposal

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The so-called Marketplace Fairness Act would allow the 45 states (and the District of Columbia) that currently charge sales taxes to require large online retailers to collect tax on purchases made by their residents. The law would...

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Buffett's Berkshire blows past estimates

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA, Fortune 500) handily beat analyst estimates with its first-quarter earnings on Friday, booking strong gains in its investments and insurance business. Excluding certain investment gains, Berkshire...

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Stock market momentum continues

Click the chart for more stock market data. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Small investors, who missed the stock market rally of the past few years, are being drawn in by the record highs and returning in droves. The new money could stoke more stock buying...

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Senate to vote on proposed Internet sales tax law

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The legislation would allow the 45 states (and the District of Columbia) that currently charge sales taxes to require large online retailers to collect tax on purchases made by their residents. The law would only apply to online...

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How construction can lose jobs in middle of home building rebound

Cuts in government spending on construction projects led to the drop in April's construction employment. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The sector lost about 6,000 jobs overall, according to the Labor Department's jobs report. This was largely due to a decline...

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My First Rifle: The business of selling guns for kids

Chipmunk, a subsidiary of Keystone, sells guns designed for children, along with its sibling subsidiary, Crickett. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The gun used in the recent shooting in Kentucky was a Crickett .22-caliber rifle, marketed with the slogan "My...

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Buffett's Berkshire blows past estimates

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA, Fortune 500) handily beat analyst estimates with its first-quarter earnings on Friday, booking strong gains in its investments and insurance business. Excluding certain investment gains, Berkshire...

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How construction can lose jobs in middle of home building rebound

Cuts in government spending on construction projects led to the drop in April's construction employment. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The sector lost about 6,000 jobs overall, according to the Labor Department's jobs report. This was largely due to a decline...

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My First Rifle: The business of selling guns for kids

Chipmunk, a subsidiary of Keystone, sells guns designed for children, along with its sibling subsidiary, Crickett. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The gun used in the recent shooting in Kentucky was a Crickett .22-caliber rifle, marketed with the slogan "My...

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Buffett's Berkshire blows past estimates

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA, Fortune 500) handily beat analyst estimates with its first-quarter earnings on Friday, booking strong gains in its investments and insurance business. Excluding certain investment gains, Berkshire...

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Disney pulls out of Bangladesh factories

The Walt Disney Company told licensees and vendors to halt production in "highest-risk countries" like Bangladesh and Pakistan. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The company sent a letter in March to vendors and licensees to transition production out of the...

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LinkedIn slumps on disappointing outlook

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) LinkedIn again beat expectations in its first-quarter earnings report late Thursday, but the company's guidance for the second quarter came in lower than analysts were expecting. Shares fell a whopping 12% in after-hours trading,...

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How porn links and Ben Bernanke snuck into Bitcoin's code

The code on the left records a bitcoin transaction from July 2011. Converted into text, it generates a portrait of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Bitcoin, a four-year-old digital currency developed by a hacker who...

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Chevy pulls ad offensive to Chinese

GM has pulled this ad that used a song with offensive lyrics. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The ad, which began running on Canadian television on March 4, was originally reworked with a different sound track a week ago. But Wednesday -- after the ad's offensive...

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Facebook sales jump 38%, with mobile boost

Click to check out Facebook's important Q1 stats. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Investors are laser-focused on mobile, which Facebook has said is the key to its future success. Mobile ad sales accounted for 30% of Facebook's total ad revenue in the first...

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Shoppers lash out at stores over Bangladesh

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Dozens of consumers took to social networks after more than 400 workers were killed when a garment factory building in Bangladesh collapsed last Wednesday. The message from shoppers like Judy Caulfield had for retailers: Shame...

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41% of college grads overqualified for what they do

More than 4 out of 10 recent graduates say they are stuck in jobs that don't required a college degree. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) A survey out Tuesday found that 41% of college graduates from the last two years are stuck in jobs that don't require a...

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Marissa Mayer extends Yahoo's maternity leave

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Both new mothers and fathers at Yahoo can now take eight weeks of paid parental leave, and the mothers can take an additional eight weeks. What's more, new parents will also receive $500 to buy items like groceries and baby clothes....

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Marissa Mayer's first-year pay: $6 million

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) In addition to a salary of close to half a million dollars, Mayer received a $1.1 million cash bonus and $4.3 million in stock, according to regulatory documents filed on Tuesday. Mayer was named Yahoo's CEO in July 2012, so...

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