Tag: news
group name: selfdirectedinfo
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June 08, 2008 01:02 AM EDT --
Energy survivalists and retirement savers be forewarned.
An $11 jump in the price of oil prompted the second-biggest drop in the stock market this year . Oil hit a whopping $139, and at least . . . more
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May 05, 2007 12:59 PM EDT --
Monopoly money will be phased out in a new version of the game in a bid to keep up with the times.
Instead players will use mock Visa debit cards to keep track of how much money they are winning or losing. . . . more
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April 30, 2008 12:51 AM EDT --
It's really no surprise that home prices measured by Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index of 20 cities fell at a record clip in February . We pretty much knew that was . . . more
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May 07, 2007 01:00 PM EDT --
There has been a 23% increase over the past five years in the number of credit cardholders who use cards that accumulate points for merchandise and/or airline tickets. The new study also shows that debit . . . more
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August 15, 2008 02:10 PM EDT --
I've been watching my "necessary evils" stock portfolio climb in recent months. American-made cigarettes, beer, and liquor are on the upswing.
I credit it to two things: people . . . more
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August 27, 2008 04:12 PM EDT --
The Office of the Attorney General has settled its three-year investigation into CitiBank's handling of customer over-payments and refunds, securing refunds for 53,000 affected CitiBank creditcard . . . more
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November 21, 2006 06:28 PM EST --
Here's a step-by-step guide from the editors of Money magazine for gaining control of your financial life: http://money.cnn.com/pf/101/
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July 27, 2006 11:27 PM EDT --
<SYNOPSIS> Is there a magic formula to investment portfolio diversification? We'll take a look at the types of returns local investment professionals and seasoned investors could have seen from . . . more
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January 09, 2008 08:57 PM EST --
For the past six months I have been publishing articles indicating that we were headed for a recession in 2008. Could that recession already be here?
The Bureau of National Economic Research probably . . . more
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March 27, 2007 07:14 PM EDT --
Combined assets of the nation's mutual funds increased by $152.8 billion, or 1.5 percent, to $10.567 trillion in January, according to the Investment Company Institute's newest survey on the mutual . . . more
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December 28, 2007 03:34 PM EST --
The American National Bureau of Economic Research defines a recession as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months." A recession . . . more
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July 09, 2007 06:47 PM EDT --
Today Gather Editorial Coordinator Jennifer Hodge posted the news that this week the venerable Wall Street Journal business daily celebrates its 118th birthday.
Born of Dow Jones & Company's . . . more
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June 06, 2008 12:09 AM EDT --
It's safe to assume that the investments in your defined-benefit plan are a determining factor in how well you can retire. What's surprising is both how much and when those investments have an . . . more
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May 25, 2007 01:47 PM EDT --
Home Sales Soar by Record Level. Or so says the headline.
Read into the report and you'll see that in April new home sales were up 16.2 percent while median prices tumbled 11.1 percent. Consider it . . . more
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January 17, 2008 02:37 PM EST --
Merrill, the nation's largest brokerage, posts a $10 billion loss:
Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., posted a loss from continuing operations of $10.3 billion, or $12.57 a share. The company's . . . more
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January 21, 2008 11:04 AM EST --
Global Markets Plunge:
Major world markets fear the president's plan to help the U.S. economy will fall short of it's goals. The U.K. benchmark FTSE-100 dropped 3.9 percent. France's . . . more
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November 17, 2006 08:36 PM EST --
WHEN DENNIS VON PONTZ WAS 11 YEARS OLD, he learned how to plot stock market prices from his day-trading uncle. By the time he was 21, von Pontz owned a stock portfolio and was reading corporate annual . . . more
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May 24, 2006 05:03 PM EDT --
From today's MarketWatch Personal Finance Daily:
Two weeks ago, investors were rooting for the Dow Jones Industrial Average to hit an all-time high. Now, they're wondering how far stock prices . . . more
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May 08, 2007 08:45 PM EDT --
Last week I attended a symposium on online news sponsored by MSNBC.com at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's newspaper office. It provided a wealth of information on stategies bloggers are using to address . . . more
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February 14, 2007 06:09 PM EST --
The purpose of my Gather.com blog is to bring resources to those who want to take control of their financial future, from self-directing a retirement account to filing their own taxes. This week’s . . . more
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