Dominion Virginia Power customers would get back more than $400 million from the company under an agreement the state’s largest utility has reached with the state attorney general’s office and a group of large ratepayers.

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Retirement planning is even more crucial for women than for men. Although most women are married, 85 percent outlive their husbands and are alone during their last years.

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Workers in Albemarle County are helping to keep military and commercial ships around the world afloat and outfitted with the latest technology.

Unemployment in the Charlottesville metropolitan area remained at 5.5 percent in September while the rate in the city itself dropped by seven-tenths of a percent, according to Virginia Employment Commission figures.

University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III will deliver the keynote address at the annual dinner meeting of the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce on Nov. 18.

The recession hasn’t been so scary for Halloween stores. In fact, they’re finding better haunts in the graveyards of failed retailers.

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Exactly a year ago I encouraged you to avoid another lost decade in the markets. I recommended a specific balanced portfolio that today is beating the S&P 500 by 9.4 percent.

They’re well trained, well paid, ready to join and may even bring a passel of jobs for local residents along with them.

First-year graduate students at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration are giving mixed reviews of the Kindle DX, an electronic book reader that they’re testing this school year.

It’s an experiment that has made back-to-school a little easier on the back: Amazon.com gave more than 200 hundred college students its Kindle e-reading device this fall, loaded with digital versions of their textbooks.

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The availability of easy credit does not encourage financial virtue. Five minutes of credit card indiscretion literally can undo a life of financial responsibility, just like flirting at a bar with an available stranger can threaten marital fidelity.

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The Great Recession has turned into the best of times for young investor Daniel Lee.

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Getting the right credit card for the right reasons is half the battle. Using it correctly is the other half.

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Ukrop’s Super Markets Inc. could be holding off on consummating a deal to sell the family-owned grocer to find a buyer that shares its values, an industry expert said yesterday.

A look behind the scenes of the CPA crew at work.