12 Ways To Invest In China's Boom
China's growth story is enticing, but profiting from that growth isn't as simple as buying China's version of Google (GOOG, news, msgs) or General Electric (GE, news, msgs). Just like in the United States, fast-growing, high-profit sectors draw ... [... more]
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Extra: Super Bowl Host Is Americas Poorest Big City - ...
Officials in the nation's poorest big city see hosting the game as a huge boost. They say it will be a catalyst for further development and provide a chance to improve Detroit's gritty reputation. They hope visitors will take note of new ... [... more]
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Your Kid's Troubles Can Cost You A Bundle
One day Junior decides that he likes the neighbor's plasma screen TV so much that he tries to steal it, only to drop and break it. Guess what? You, the parent, can expect to be on the hook. Under Missouri's parental liability statute, for ... [... more]
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Should You Give Life Insurance To Charity?
Here's an example: One large school accepts -- but immediately cancels and cashes in -- a whole life policy on a 41-year-old male donor. The policy had a $350,000 death benefit and a $20,000 cash value. If the donor lives 38 more years, the cash ... [... more]
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Steady Strategies For A Baffling Bond Market
The third approach is the bullet, wherein an investor picks bonds that all mature at the same time. Hitting the bull's-eye requires an awareness of market prices and a willingness to adjust the portfolio as interest rates shift up or down. Take ... [... more]
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Conquer The 13 Biggest Financial Fears
Then pick your waiting period before coverage kicks in, which can range from 0 days to 360 days. The longer the waiting period, the lower your premiums. But you'll have to pay the bills out-of-pocket until the benefits kick in. A waiting period ... [... more]
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Whom To Believe -- Buffett Or Greenspan?
Buffett's approach is data-lite, but the data he does cite agree with the details of Greenspan's picture. Last year, we purchased $618 billion more in goods and services from the rest of the world than we sold. To pay for this current ... [... more]
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Time To Take A Profit On Finance Funds
One of the reasons the financial-services sector has been an excellent place to invest is that it comprises many different industries powered by different dynamics. Standard & Poors Corp. counts 10 of them: banks, consumer finance, diversified ... [... more]
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10 Stocks For A Changed Planet
Telecommunications equipment: Nortel Networks (NT, news, msgs) is one of the few companies still standing after the telecommunications equipment crash that still has the ear of the people at the big voice carriers when it comes to buying ... [... more]
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Home Sweet Home: The Hottest Place To Retire
Your relatives are probably close. People joke about happiness being "a large, close ethnic family that lives in another city," said author and researcher Ralph Warner. But proximity helps build strong family relationships, and solid family ... [... more]
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Toys R Us Stays In The Toy Biz
The consortium will acquire all shares of Toys R Us for $26.75 a share, an 8% premium over Wednesday's close. The roughly 215 million Toys R Us shares outstanding account for $5.75 billion of the deal, with the remainder coming from outstanding ... [... more]
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Do Two Incomes Mean Deeper Debt?
Ironically, Warren sees Mom's paycheck -- a family's second income, the very asset meant to provide more financial stability -- as a potential culprit rather than an economic cure. When middle-class mothers began entering the workforce en masse, ... [... more]
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