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Mortgage Refinance Rates: 30 Year Refinance Mortgage Rates at 4.85%, 15 Year Refinance Mortgage Rates at 4.33%

May 18th, 2010

Mortgage refinance rates are down again this week over last. Current 30 year mortgage rate finance rates are at the lowest level in 2010. 30 year refinance mortgage rates are averaging 4.85 percent this week, down from the prior week’s average refinance rate of 4.97 percent.

Looking for current refinance rates? Use our mortgage rate tables at MortgageRates.MonitorBankRates.com to find the lowest mortgage refinance rates in your state.

Current 15 year mortgage refinance rates are slightly higher this week over last. The ave

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Google Pushes Software to TVs, Steps Up Apple Rivalry

May 18th, 2010

May 19, 2010, 10:06 AM EDT

(Updates shares in sixth paragraph.)

May 19 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., owner of the most-used Web search engine, is teaming up with Intel Corp. to get its software onto televisions in a bid to succeed where rival Apple Inc. has struggled.

At a conference that starts today, Mountain View, California-based Google plans to announce a partnership with Intel and Sony Corp. that will put Android software on TV sets and other home-entertainment equipment, people familiar with the matter said earlier this month.

Google aims to expand beyond the online advertising business that makes up almost all its sales, while benefiting from rising demand for Web-connected TVs.

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How You Can Switch to a Paperless Office

May 18th, 2010

Paper may not seem like a big expense, but when you add up all the money spent on the reams of paper, manila folders to hold paper, filing cabinets to store the paper, and the hours spent by employees sorting through paper, you might realize that paper can be costly.

Today many companies, big and small, are going paperless, but you rarely hear the details about how they do it. Here are a few tips to get you started on a completely paperless office.

Email memos – Interoffice memos are a big paper hog in many offices. Every time a company president or department head has something to announce or a report to share, it goes out in the form of a memo to everyone. I

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S & P 500 Trading Video: Has The S & P 500 Topped Out?

May 17th, 2010

The latest S & P 500 trading video from INO.com (a well known stock trading site) ponders the question of whether the S & P 500 index has finally hit its peak in the near term. If you’re an active trader or investor, then you may be curious to see the latest analysis on the market’s behavior, as offered by INO. Their claim here is that by using their MarketClub Stock Trading System, you could have avoided the latest slump in the stock market and could have bagged some profits over the last couple of months.

Do check out this video and find out how technical analysis could have worked for you.

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NZ still in the top 20, but only just: IMD

May 17th, 2010

May 19 () – Weak capital markets, management skills, and export performance are the biggest factors behind New Zealand’s slide five places down the rankings on the IMD World Competitiveness Index, released tonight, on the eve of the John Key-led government’s second Budget.

But the country scores well on its capacity to weather the storm of debt created in the “old industrialised nations” by the global financial crisis, thanks to relatively low public debt to Gross Domestic Product.
The IMD Swiss business school’s annual survey of businesspeople and policymakers in 54 developed or emerging economies is a widely watched indicator for the quality of country governance and public investment, as well as the investment environment. The survey

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Hartford pays disability benefits for 12 years and then uses video surveillance to deny benefits

May 16th, 2010

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