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Above-average temperatures across the United States thus far are hurting retail sales, and retailers are running out of time to sell their winter inventory.

The good news is that Wall Street experts think stock prices will rise more than 10 percent next year. The bad news is that they expected big gains in 2011 and got nearly zero instead.

The good news: Social Security recipients are getting their first cost-of-living raise, 3.6 percent, since 2009.

The bad news: Rising Medicare premiums will eat into that increase for many, and could erase it entirely for a small percentage.

Will a monthly debit card fee soon be the norm? Bank of America said Thursday that it plans to start charging a $5 monthly fee when customers make debit card purchases.

The fee will be rolled out starting early next year.

Earlier this week came reports that the daily-deals site, suddenly unpopular with both users and investors, is considering shelving its long-expected IPO.

Now comes more bad news—Groupon’s own employees have filed a class-action suit against the company.

August was a wild month for the stock market, and the bad news — for skittish investors, at least — is that September may not be much better.

The bad news is pretty obvious, but the effects of the storm have the potential to boost the fourth quarter’s GDP, bringing the fiscal stimulus so badly needed today.

What the president and the Congress have been unable to do, Irene very well might.

So much for the Fed-inspired rally. Investors' attention has turned back to the weak economy — and that's bad news for stocks.

Last month was sort of a big deal for the daily deals industry (unless you were Groupon or LivingSocial, and then it was just a lot of bad news).

At the end of April, Google announced plans to begin testing "Google Offers," while Facebook launched its group buying service called Deals.

Don't break out the bubbly just yet. Unemployment may have reached a two-year low in March, but here are six reasons why real recovery may still be far, far away.