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Europe to meet on financial rescue package

a shared story    21 hours 20 minutes ago
AFP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met on Saturday as European leaders moved towards a British-style plan of partial bank nationalisation.  comments (0)  | report problem


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GM and Chrysler 'in merger talks'

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Struggling US car giants General Motors and Chrysler are in talks about a possible merger, US media say.  comments (0)  | report problem


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Ireland's economy ends long winning run

a shared story    22 hours 20 minutes ago
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- Davey McKeever was down to his last bet slip of the night, crumpled in a sweaty fist, at the Shelbourne Park greyhound track. The remnants of McKeever's first unemployment check would rise or fall on the ironically named Nest Egg....  comments (0)  | report problem


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Automakers push key vehicles through fall TV shows

a shared story    23 hours 20 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) -- In this fall's TV season, a secret agent speeds around in a Chevrolet Camaro, a man tries to save the world with the help of a Dodge Ram pickup, and a famous talking car returns to the streets in the form of...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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Shifting Careers: In Hard Times, Lawyers Advise Cautious Steps

a shared story    10 hours 20 minutes ago
Two employment lawyers discuss some of the conflicts they expect to arise as financial companies disappear, change, merge and downsize.   comments (0)  | report problem


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Why Your Mutual Fund Is Safe Even if the Management Firm Fails

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Q Are mutual funds covered by SIPC? ANo, mutual funds generally aren't covered by the Securities Investor Protection Corp. unless they are held in a brokerage account. But don't panic: The funds are subject to strict regulations that protect your money. The Investment Company Act...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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The Flameout's Smoke Signal

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This flameout in the stock market is actually telling us something. That is, something besides the sorry news that our 401(k)s are now mostly little piles of ash. To hear chief investment strategist Richard Bernstein of Merrill Lynch tell it, the market is sending us...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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S& P 500 Logs Worst Week in 75 Years

a shared story    1 hour 20 minutes ago
Stocks plunged, sending the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index to its worst week in 75 years on concern the credit crisis will spread from banks to consumer companies and energy producers, triggering a global recession. Financial firms in the S&P 500 fell to an almost...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem
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ARM Holders Would Do Well to Shop Around Now

a shared story    1 hour 20 minutes ago
The global financial crisis has affected virtually every aspect of personal finance, from mortgages to student loans to credit cards to retirement savings. So it's no surprise that so many of our readers have so many questions. Our first one comes from Luis Frank Torres,...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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Blame Game Gets Nasty When It Targets the Poor

a shared story    2 hours 20 minutes ago
I was raised by a grandmother who had to assign blame when anything went wrong. For Big Mama, there were never any accidents. When I got into a car crash while driving her to a doctor's appointment, she blamed me. Never mind that it was...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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It's Not Smooth Sailing Just Yet

a shared story    2 hours 20 minutes ago
Now that the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 has been passed by Congress and signed by the president, what should we expect for the economy and markets? A few things we do know for sure. "This is going to be a very bad Christmas...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem



Strap In for an Extended, Slow Recovery

a shared story    3 hours 20 minutes ago
It has become a familiar refrain among financial advisers and investment strategists: The stock market may go down, but it always recovers over time. If history has proved anything, it's that sometimes, it takes a really long time. Take the bear market of 1967. That...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem



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