ilbusca/ Getty Images; Illustration by Austin Courregé/Bankrate Key takeaways Very few lenders offer $100,000 personal loans, and those that do have strict eligibility requirements. Carefully consider the costs and alternatives to $100,000 personal loans before you apply. Tapping into your home’s equity may be another way to borrow a large…

American workers are lowering their expectations of the pay rate they want to take a new job, according to research by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The New York Fed’s Survey of Consumer Expectations found that the so-called reservation wage for a new job declined to $74,236 in March…

Real estate has a reputation for making people rich — and there’s truth to that. Historically, real estate has delivered solid returns, outpaced inflation and offered a reliable stream of passive income. Home appreciation rates, for example, tend to grow 4.5 percent annually on average, according to data from the…

U.S. industrial conglomerate 3M Co. on Tuesday beat Wall Street expectations for first-quarter profit on cost cutting, sending its shares up 7% even as it warned of a potential hit to 2025 earnings from trade tensions. Bill Brown, who succeeded Mike Roman as CEO in May, laid out a restructuring…