ROMANS: It's 25 minutes after the hour. "Minding Your Business" this morning. In Paris, treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, says he is confident that EU leaders will be successful in their negotiations to tackle the debt crisis there. Those negotiations begin Friday in Brussels. A check on the markets right now. U.S. stock futures are retreating, turning a little bit mixed at the moment. They were up earlier because of optimism the EU leaders will hammer out a solution to that meeting, and actually, potentially, double the size of its bailout fund and change the constitution of that to make it stronger. A new credit report is digging deeper into your financial history. A company called CoreLogic has introduced a new credit file based on its massive database of information. It includes whether you paid your rend or utility and cell phone bills on time, among a lot of other things. This is information that's not currently considered by the credit bureaus. Bottom line for you, though, if you make payments on time every time, your credit score will work for you and not against you. But beware, there's a lot more information about you being perused by your creditors and banks right now. You don't have to tell cell phone users, but for a second year in a row, Consumer Reports says AT&T; is America's worst mobile carrier. Oregon-based consumer cellular that got the highest marks. AT&T; says it's committed to getting better and better. And next, it's not Iowa, it's Croatia. We'll talk with author, Jennifer Wilson, and her husband about their family's odyssey in her new book "Running Away to Home." AMERICAN MORNING back right after the break.
Geithner In Paris To Talk Debt Crisis