HAVERHILL - On the once-contaminated site of a decaying shoe factory, a thriving neighborhood is growing with the opening of hundreds of chic apartments, part of a renaissance in this Merrimack River mill city, which has seen plenty of hard times. Longtime residents like Richard Lynch never believed the crumbling [ Read More → ]

The City watchdog warned financial firms “to get their house in order” over claims of mis-selling. It is taking action over controversial “single premium” PPI, where the entire policy cost is paid upfront and often added to the debt that is being taken out. Firms representing more than [ Read More → ]

With the market for initial public offerings heating up, online tech retailer Newegg.com is looking to cash in. The fast-growing City of Industry company, which sells computers, software and consumer electronics, filed Monday to sell as much as $175 million in stock to the public. The company was founded in 2001 by [ Read More → ]

The City watchdog, the Financial Services Authority, is also calling for consumers to be given a cooling-off period after they have signed up to one of the schemes, while firms will be banned from cold calling and dropping promotional leaflets through letter boxes. It is also proposing stopping [ Read More → ]

Satoko Nielsen caught a nonstop flight from Portland to Tokyo in July, finding the video displays broken for the ride of more than 10 hours. The Northwest Portland resident’s daughter took the same Delta Air Lines flight a few days later. It departed three hours late. On the return trip, [ Read More → ]

The findings come after rival comparison site uSwitch revealed that people who chose to pay for their gas and electricity once a quarter by cash or cheque were paying on average £224 more than neighbours who set up their energy account over the internet. But it is not [ Read More → ]

Energy bills are £224 a year more expensive for customers not online Photo: PA Those who chose to pay once a quarter by cash or cheque, are paying on average £224 more than neighbours who set up their gas and electricity account over the internet. The research, undertaken for The Daily [ Read More → ]

CHICAGO—People around the world interact with Alecia Dantico all day. Usually, though, they don’t know whether she’s young or old, male or female. What her followers on Facebook and Twitter know is that’s she’s a friendly, sometimes sassy, blue and gold tin of Garrett Popcorn. That’s the icon of the popular [ Read More → ]

Earlier stories in this series. When Thomas Dana was laid off in March from his job as a systems operator for a cabinet company, he left everything in his office behind: computer programming manuals, amaryllis plant, calendar, stuffed duck. He had a feeling he’d be back. Turns out he was right: [ Read More → ]

Real estate agents almost always advise that now is the right time to buy a house. For first-time buyers hoping to seal the deal before the government’s $8,000 tax credit expires Nov. 30, that advice is timely - and right on the money. From contract to closing, real estate transactions typically take [ Read More → ]