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(07-30-2010) Six Ways To Avoid Capital Gains Tax
You can reduce your risk in a stock without triggering a taxable sale. Here's how.
(07-30-2010) Speculating Is Not Investing
Why you should shun talk of a ''stock-picker's market.''
(07-30-2010) Making Sense Of The Muni Bond Market
Despite what you hear, savvy investors can still earn stable after-tax income.
(07-30-2010) Animal Magnetism
Australia's wealthy Jan Cameron is back in the retail game with a discounter she bought last year. The profits will go to her other passion: animal welfare.
(07-30-2010) For Some Retirees, This Annuity Makes Sense
A Single Premium Immediate Annuity can provide a ''bridge'' to Social Security or insurance against outliving your money.
(07-30-2010) What Is Wrong With Gold?
Despite its historic and symbolic appeal, this metal is simply a commodity. Here we explore its meaning as an investment.
(07-30-2010) First-Impression Career Blunders To Avoid
These nonverbal cues may cost you the job before the interview even starts.
(07-30-2010) Parental Leave: Can You Afford It?
Taking time off with your child can be a big financial decision. Find out what you need to consider.
(07-30-2010) Buying A Home: New Or Previously Owned?
Brand-new homes have distinct advantages--and drawbacks. Find out what you need to know to make an informed decision.
(07-30-2010) All-Time Low Mortgage Rates: Time To Refinance?
Interest rates keep dipping lower and lower. Find out what it takes to tip the scales toward a refinance.
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(09-01-2006) Mexican Land And Canadian Gold
A successful amateur investor shares his strategies for capitalizing on the commodity bull market.
(09-01-2006) Shiny Gold Alloy
Goldcorp's buyout of Glamis signals that the gold bull has room to run. Look for more consolidation.
(09-01-2006) Oil Services Slump
Lingering optimism in the face of technical weakness is a big bearish omen for oil services stocks.
(08-28-2006) End Of The Bubble Bailouts
After stocks boomed and went bust, it's real estate's turn. But is there a new mania to save consumers?
(08-23-2006) Five Funds For The Next Leg Up
Stocks rebounded nicely in mid-July. If the rally continues, you might want to jump into one of these funds.
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(07-30-2010) Consumers not spending like drunken sailors
The economy is heading nowhere fast. That's the bad news. But the good news is that it still seems like consumers may have actually learned a lesson or two about reckless fiscal behavior.
(07-30-2010) U.S. recovery sputters
The U.S. economy continued to grow during the second quarter, the government reported Friday. But the pace slowed more than economists were expecting, raising concern about growth - or even another recession - in the months ahead.
(07-30-2010) Pay gap persists for African-Americans
African-American workers continue to earn far less than whites, according to statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
(07-30-2010) China says it tops Japan as No. 2 economy
China has surpassed Japan to become the world's second largest economy, lagging only behind the United States, a Chinese government official said in remarks published on Friday.
(07-30-2010) States go deeper into debt
The states are broke, and like many consumers, they're borrowing big time to get out of their fiscal binds.
(07-30-2010) What's so scary about Elizabeth Warren?
Elizabeth Warren doesn't look or sound scary. She's a 61-year-old Harvard Law School professor from Oklahoma who has written personal finance books, some with her daughter.
(07-30-2010) Building your brand (and keeping your job)
Scott Monty's personal brand doesn't take a back seat to anyone else's -- not even that of Ford Motor Co., his employer. "I'm not somebody who can be accused of using Ford's brand to benefit my own," says Monty, the car giant's first global digital and multimedia communications manager. "If anything, the opposite is true."
(07-29-2010) Jobless claims slide in latest week
The number of Americans filing for initial unemployment insurance fell last week, the government said Thursday.
(07-29-2010) New Wall Street rules pit SEC vs. the media
One of Wall Street reform's littlest known provisions is getting big attention for giving a government agency a possible loophole for avoiding journalists' requests for information.
(07-29-2010) Obama vs. Big Business
Corporate chiefs may seem hardboiled, but they can be sensitive, too. Take the ruckus they've been raising over what they perceive to be rough treatment from the Obama White House.
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(07-30-2010) Stocks: Best monthly gain in a year
Despite a mixed performance on Friday, stocks booked the best monthly gain in a year, with the Dow Jones industrial average and S&P 500 both rising nearly 7% in July.
(07-30-2010) Treasurys rise on weaker GDP
A weaker-than-expected government report on the economy sent investors flocking back into Treasurys Friday, pushing the prices up on U.S. debt and driving yields down.
(07-30-2010) Consumers not spending like drunken sailors
The economy is heading nowhere fast. That's the bad news. But the good news is that it still seems like consumers may have actually learned a lesson or two about reckless fiscal behavior.
(07-30-2010) The SEC still needs to escape regulatory capture. Here's how.
It's a natural human tendency to rely on the opinions of friends. We all do it, but, given the right circumstances, that impulse can endanger anything from interpersonal relationships to world economies.
(07-29-2010) Stocks edge lower
Stocks slid Thursday, although they finished off their session lows, as investors weighed cautious comments from a regional Federal Reserve president about the health of the economy and a mix of quarterly profit reports.
(07-29-2010) Dollar sinks on recovery doubts
The dollar continued to slide this week, hovering near monthly lows versus major currencies as worries about an economic slowdown weighed on investors.
(07-29-2010) Oil drifts off 11-week high
Oil prices drifted lower this week, edging off last week's 11-week high above $79 a barrel. But trading remained rangebound as investors balanced strong corporate earnings against ongoing jitters over the economic recovery.
(07-28-2010) Stocks fall on economic fears
Stocks fell Wednesday as a worse-than-expected report on durable goods orders and weaker quarterly results from Boeing and others added to concerns about the pace of the economic recovery.
(07-27-2010) Stocks: Earnings help, economy hurts
Stocks churned Tuesday, losing steam after a three-session run, after a big drop in consumer confidence offset better-than-expected profit growth from DuPont, UBS and others.
(07-26-2010) Stocks rally on housing, FedEx
Stocks rallied Monday after FedEx's improved forecast and a better-than-expected housing market report tempered worries about the economic outlook.
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