Feb. Could Be Worst Month Yet For Jobless Claims WASHINGTON (AP) - February is shaping up to be another brutal month of job losses: The number of laid-off workers receiving unemployment benefits hit an all-time high of nearly 5 million, and new jobless claims are at levels not seen since the early 1980s. ...more

February 22, 2009

Despairing investors keep unloading stocks, and there are no signs that the selling will end anytime soon. ...more

February 21, 2009

The number of laid-off workers receiving unemployment benefits has jumped to an all-time high near 5 million while new jobless claims remain well above 600,000. Both figures were worse than expected and new projections from the Federal Reserve show unemployment rising for the rest of this year. ...more

February 20, 2009

The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled to its lowest close in more than six years on Thursday as sharp declines in key financial shares led the market lower. ...more

February 19, 2009

Finding financial aid for college this year promises to be tougher than any final exam. The quest for money that begins for students and parents every January has taken on new urgency in 2009 amid fears that loans and grants will be scarcer than in the past due to the recession. ...more

January 25, 2009

Until the 2008 stock market crash, David and Priscilla Williams were planning on not spending many more cold winters in Philadelphia. ...more

January 18, 2009

Ronald Ward, a certified financial planner with Ward Financial Services, said with the volatile financial markets he keeps an open door policy at his Sun City Center office. ...more

January 14, 2009

Tampa Bay area home prices continued to fall in October, posting a 19.8 percent decline from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index, released Tuesday. ...more

December 31, 2008

TAMPA -- Bay area home prices continued to fall in October, posting a 19.8 percent decline from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index, released this morning. The index, a closely watched indicator of the health of the nation's housing market, tracks 20 metro cities and showed prices dropped 18 percent from last year -- a record decline. ...more

December 30, 2008

In the midst of a bear market, Tom Payant, the CEO and chairman of Payant Financial Plaza in Sun City Center, said he spends a lot of time on the phone easing his client's many fears. Meanwhile, Payant and other Sun City Center financial advisors continue to brave the financial jungle. ...more

November 5, 2008