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Virgin Money has become the first financial firm to offer a charity credit card which allows you to boost your charitable giving with the Government’s Gift Aid scheme. However, if you ever borrow on your card, the card doesn’t make sense: it’s expensive compared to other deals on the market. [ Read More → ]

View full sizeThomas Boyd/The OregonianThe fishing boat “Corsair” heads out of Yaquina Bay for dungeness crab at sunrise in Newport. Newport is currently in a battle to become the new home to NOAA’s Pacific Fleet. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today opened a new front in the squabble with Washington state [ Read More → ]

 Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. announced it is hiring 190 agents, supervisors and managers at its Tualatin. The Dallas, Tex.-based company is expanding to meet new business demands from an existing client, said Chris Gilligan, a company spokesman. He declined to name the client but said it is in the communications [ Read More → ]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - <MET.N> pursued AIG’s <AIG.N> foreign life insurance business for two years before finally clinching a $15.5 billion purchase that will give it beachheads in 47 nations from Peru to Bangladesh. The deal for American Life Insurance Co will help , already the largest life insurer in [ Read More → ]

Canada isn’t shy about making life , and we’ve had one or two personal with the country as well. But a change in Canadian tax law last week is designed to spur U.S. venture investments in Canadian startups and make Canada less of a leper colony for tech entrepreneurs.The [ Read More → ]

BEIJING — China’s banks might face risks if finance arms set up by local governments to invest in real estate and infrastructure projects cannot repay heavy borrowing, a deputy central bank governor said Monday. Regulators have told banks to examine outstanding loans to such financing vehicles, said Su Ning at a [ Read More → ]

Don’t wait to tackle taxes this year, or your small business may miss out on credits that would lower your 2009 tax bill or face a delay in getting much-needed cash from a refund. California’s new hiring tax credit, for example, awards as much as $3,000 per qualified new employee [ Read More → ]

Q: My wife and I are conservative investors and like to spread our investments out, so as not to be committed to a specific form of investment. Regardless, we would like to give our children a small number of shares in a company [as yet undetermined] [ Read More → ]

Leading business group, the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC), has warned that the UK economy faces a “high risk of a relapse“. The UK economy emerged from recession in the fourth quarter of 2009 by experiencing growth of just 0.3%. However, all economists and reports have suggested that the recovery will [ Read More → ]

Pressure is growing on U.S. banks to ease terms for distressed homeowners on home-equity loans and other second-lien mortgages. Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, last week sent a letter to the four biggest U.S. banks demanding “immediate steps to write down second mortgages.” The Massachusetts Democrat [ Read More → ]