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I recently read two posts by Srinivas Rao about making the most of a small audience. They inspired me. He says that in the beginning, when your audience is small, you have an opportunity to build super high-quality connections. You may only have a few dozen readers, but this can...

If you're a renter, you're almost surely digging deeper into your wallet to satisfy your landlord these days.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. farmland prices in the central Corn Belt states eased slightly in the July-September quarter, but stayed steady on year-ago levels as values held up despite the downturn in grain prices that accelerated with this year's record harvest, the Federal Reserve Bank of...

BAMAKO/MONROVIA (Reuters) - Mali announced tougher health checks at border crossings after registering its second Ebola outbreak, while Liberia on Thursday signaled progress in neutralizing the virus by saying it would not renew a state of emergency.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a paradoxically good development for the U.S. economy, Americans quit their jobs in September at the fastest rate in over six years.

Lenders were offering 30-year fixed mortgages to solid borrowers this week at an average of 4.01%, a Freddie Mac survey found, down a hair from 4.02% last week.

• New rules would boost consumer protections for prepaid cards

I read your column detailing what Medicare will cost in 2015 (kiplinger.com/article/retirement/T039-C001-S003-what-you-ll-pay-for-medicare-in-2015.html). But I didn't see a mention of the Medicare Part D doughnut hole. Isn't the gap in coverage shrinking again?

The nation's top consumer financial watchdog is taking aim at the booming but lightly regulated prepaid card industry with new rules to protect customers from the vagaries of bank-like operations.

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles offer faster fill ups and longer range than plug-in cars, but suffer from high start-up costs and lack of infrastructure.

• Fuel-cell cars for 2014

TOKYO/DETROIT (Reuters) - Takata Corp has modified the composition of an air bag propellant that contains a volatile chemical at the center of a recall of millions of cars worldwide, the company told Reuters.

WASHINGTON — Urgent.ly, an online mobile application that allows stranded drivers to summon car repair help, is partnering with MapQuest in a deal that aims to disrupt the $10 billion roadside assistance industry much as Uber has done to the taxi and car service business.

• Basic car care: What every new (and old) driver should know