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WATCH YOUR CREDIT: Place a fraud alert on your credit reports with the three credit bureaus: Experian (888-397-3742), TransUnion (800-680-7289) and Equifax...
SHRED YOUR MAIL: Preapproved-credit-card solicitations should be shredded. Pay attention to the billing cycles of the cards already in your wallet as well. If they're noticeably late, call your issuer...
...together to share vast databases of detailed, individual consumer behavior are hard to deny. Just the names of psychographic tools (Monitor MindBase, LifeMatrix) are enough to get privacy advocates worked up. But researchers say they are only putting to more effective use information that consumers surrendered when they used credit cards, registered on websites or responded to questionnaires. And marketers keep raising the stakes. Personicx, launched by Axciom Corp. in 2002 and using information from public records, third-party research, product-warranty cards and other sources, is designed to be updated monthly to reflect such life-changing events...
MAIDMAN: Even though they've already had a pretty solid run, if nothing else you'll capture nice yields, maybe 7% to 10%. In addition, there will be more capital appreciation. As the economy recovers, balance sheets and credit ratings improve, and junk bonds rise. Now you have a price gain of maybe 10% plus your 7% yield...
...work--she as a middle-school teacher, he as an insurance claims adjuster--to support their two girls, ages 6 and 9. When the Clarks bought their four-bedroom house in Battle Creek six years ago, they put 20% down to get the best interest rate. They have no credit-card debt, economize every way they can--yet can't escape the feeling that they are just a pink slip away from financial disaster. "If Tom lost his job, we'd be hurting fast," says Mary. "I guess it would mean moving in with the folks...