Find out which Black Friday websites to visit before your shopping excursion. Mike Wendland reports. 

Survey: More Americans plan to use cash, not credit, this Christmas. Michelle Franzen reports. 

Americans may be settling into low-spending habits.
A parade of earnings reports due Thursday will offer a more textured read on consumers’ recent spending.

Most bank customers bank online despite security concerns. Bob Hansen reports. 

Credit card companies are raising rates ahead of new consumer protection laws. NBC’s Mary Lee reports. 

Air travel congestion will only get worse as the economy improves. Brooke Hart reports. 

The Beaufort County Board of Education voted Wednesday to raise taxes on commercial property and non-owner occupied homes to make up for an anticipated $2.4 million budget shortfall.

In a literal “sign of the times,“ the old Springfield Ford signs are coming down and Effingham Auto Sales signs are taking their places.

This weekend, it’s South Carolina’s turn to offer tax-free shopping.

NEW YORK (AP) — Hyundai said Tuesday that customers in the U.S. who buy or lease its vehicles by Aug. 31 will receive a gas card that lets them buy fuel at $1.49 a gallon for a year, a promotion to win over consumers worried about volatile prices at the pump.

It’s hard to start thinking about Christmas when temperatures are in the triple digits, but that’s what many retailers are already doing.

NEW YORK (AP) — Investors rushed back into stocks as profits at a handful of companies indicated the economy might be gaining strength.

NEW YORK (AP) — Gasoline markets showed the first signs this week that an extended rally in pump prices is nearing an end after 52 straight days of price increases.

Nestle USA on Friday voluntarily recalled Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products after a number of illnesses were reported by those who ate the dough raw.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Consumer Product Safety Commission says Macy’s will voluntarily recall about 33,000 hooded children’s sweatshirts that pose a strangulation risk.