US Airways and American Airlines are joining forces in an $11 billion deal to create the world's largest airline.

* Job growth is estimated for 2008-2018 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Not until you reach retirement age. Typically that's 65, though many pension plans allow you to start collecting early retirement benefits as early as age 55. If you decide to start receiving ...

Obama administration outlines plans for more Arctic oil drilling, but says new leases won't be granted until 2016 to allow more time for studies. More ...

(Fortune Magazine) -- For New Yorkers it felt like a flashback to Sept. 11. At 3:36 P.M. on Aug. 18, 2007, came a report that a skyscraper was burning about 150 feet from where the World Trade ...

For this calculator, we define middle class as two-thirds to two times median income for the county. In counties where two-thirds of median income would fall close to the poverty line, we set the ...

Stocks historically have produced long-term gains that are bigger than those of any other asset class. Since 1926, large stocks have returned an average of 10% per year. What's more, they didn't ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Not all community colleges are created equal. Figuring out which school will give you the best chance of transferring to a four-year college or university can be difficult ...

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Absolutely. That's because different investment mixes are riskier than others, and your tolerance for risk decreases as you age. Stocks - which are shares of ownership in a corporation - provide ...

This data shows hourly minimum wages in each country from 2013. The currency is converted into U.S. dollars using the OECD's purchasing power parity calculation. Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway ...

The old rule of thumb used to be that you should subtract your age from 100 - and that's the percentage of your portfolio that you should keep in stocks. For example, if you're 30, you should keep ...