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Test Your Credit Score Knowledge at www.FreeScoreQuiz.com

Posted by | July 31, 2011 .

FreeScore.comSM has created www.FreeScoreQuiz.com, where consumers can test their knowledge about the importance of credit scores and reports. The site contains eight questions that separate fact from fiction for people seeking to buy a home or car, obtain insurance or even get a new job. Visitors are welcomed to the quiz site by , Filbert, [...]

Amgen results beat Street; Xgeva sales strong

Posted by | July 30, 2011 .

By Toni Clarke BOSTON | Fri Jul 29, 2011 2:18pm EDT BOSTON (Reuters) – Amgen Inc (AMGN.O), the world’s biggest biotechnology company, posted better-than-expected second-quarter earnings, boosted by strong sales of Xgeva, a drug that prevents fractures in patients with cancer that has spread to the bone. The company also implemented its first quarterly dividend, [...]

Nursing home companies fall on final reimbursement rate cuts

Posted by | July 30, 2011 .

Fri Jul 29, 2011 5:48pm EDT (Reuters) – Shares of skilled nursing home operators Kindred Healthcare (KND.N), Skilled Healthcare (SKH.N) and Sun Health Care (SUNH.O) fell in extended trade on Friday, after regulators slashed its final Medicare payments for fiscal 2012. The Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS) cut payments for skilled nursing facilities by [...]

Billionaire Wilbur Ross downplays downgrade threat

Posted by | July 30, 2011 .

DUBLIN | Sat Jul 30, 2011 11:18am EDT DUBLIN (Reuters) – A downgrade of sovereign debt would not necessarily have a big impact on financial markets, billionaire investor Wilbur Ross said. Entrenched differences were hampering a compromise between Republicans and Democrats on Saturday to head off a ruinous debt default, less than 100 hours before [...]

Debt and data suggest more losses

Posted by | July 30, 2011 .

By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK | Sat Jul 30, 2011 6:46pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks are likely to face more selling pressure next week as the Tuesday deadline draws near for raising the U.S. debt ceiling and Washington remains paralyzed by political brinkmanship. Anxiety over the debt crisis sent the SP 500 lower [...]

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