Americans are starting to get their household finances in order. In an encouraging round of earnings reports, major banks say fewer mortgages are going bad, credit card defaults are down and more people are paying the bills on time. One ...

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BOSTON — The highest court in Massachusetts has ruled against U.S. Bancorp and Wells Fargo & Co. in a widely watched mortgage foreclosure case that could have serious implications for the nation’s largest banks. The Supreme Judicial Court on Friday ...

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Alongside our top 20 stories of the year series, selected by the editorial staff, that runs in Friday’s paper, we thought we would also give you the top 10 stories that you found most interesting in 2010. Using web analytics and ...

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Funds for aquaculture Maryland’s new shellfish aquaculture financing program will accept a second round of applications between Jan. 2 and January 31, Gov. Martin O’Malley announced. The program is funded at $2.2 million. The Department of Natural Resources received 16 ...

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WASHINGTON — The tax deal struck by President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans essentially gives Americans a pay raise — pumping money into the economy almost immediately and probably creating hundreds of thousands of jobs over the next two years, ...

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WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday revealed details of trillions of dollars in emergency aid it provided to U.S. and foreign banks during the financial crisis. Newly released documents show that the most loan money over time went to ...

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NEW YORK — Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $100 million to Citigroup to settle all claims in a dispute related to its 2008 acquisition of Wachovia Corp. Wachovia nearly collapsed in October 2008, at the height of the financial ...

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WASHINGTON — Fewer people applied for unemployment aid last week, the third drop in four weeks and evidence that the job market is showing signs of life. If the decline continues, it could signal more hiring in the near future. ...

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When Wells Fargo called Baltimore salesman David Devaney in July 2009 to tell him he qualified for a loan modification, medical bills were mounting for his daughter, who was born prematurely, and he’d been forced to take a lower-paying job ...

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Baltimore’s once heralded mortgage-lending discrimination lawsuit against Wells Fargo has sputtered at the starting gate for nearly three years, but the city hopes its third amended complaint against the megabank is the charm. The city filed the fourth version of ...

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