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Selling a House? Try to Avoid Zeros (By the Numbers)
Posted by baracc 104 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
How One Fund Manager Weathers the Storm (Fund Manager Spotlight)
Posted by baracc 104 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
VIDEO: Marc Heilweil, of the Marathon Value Portfolio Fund, on volatility.
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This Week in Business Tweets: Apple Love (Twitter Beat)
Posted by baracc 120 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
Steve Case plugs the iPad, while Harbinger dumps NYT shares.
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Magic Words for Better Deals (Deal of the Day)
Posted by baracc 120 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
Say "birthday" or "honeymoon" and the deals come rushing in.
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Tax Tips: Mutual Fund Tax Breaks (Tax Tips)
Posted by baracc 123 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
Invest in international fund shares? Don't pay the IRS any more than necessary.
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When 'Cheap' ETFs Aren't Really Cheap
Posted by baracc 123 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
Don't be fooled by ETFs that have super low fees. The real costs could add up.
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Tax Tips: A Tip for Small-Business Owners (Tax Tips)
Posted by baracc 143 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
Don't forget about the depreciation write-off on new equipment.
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Big Gun Gets Back in the Hunt
Posted by baracc 143 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
Famed investor Lew Sanders has a new startup -- and plenty of fresh ideas.
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A wave of disappointing economic reports has revived fears that the recovery is unsustainable, upping the ante for this week's batch of economic news, including the big February jobs report Friday.
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Stocks ended little changed Friday as investors showed caution after a surprise drop in existing home sales, a surprise rise in GDP growth and AIG's worse-than-expected quarterly decline.
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4 Funds Betting on a Financial Recovery (Screens)
Posted by baracc 181 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
Even if banks are rebounding, most investors can avoid these funds.
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Readers Speak: Obama Swings and Misses (Reader Views)
Posted by baracc 181 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
Plus: Recent earnings are a wash; too early to call iPad a success.
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Stocks tumbled Friday, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq leading the way down, as investors bet that the strong economic growth seen in the fourth quarter of last year can't be sustained.
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Interesting times lie ahead for Ben Bernanke.
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Treating New Hires as Independent Contractors (The Tax Guy)
Posted by baracc 317 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
Cost savings are on top of any business owner’s mind these days. And even if the business is doing so well that you need to expand your staff, you may be terrified of all the obligations that go along with hiring a full-time employee. I don’t blame you.One solution: Hire an independent contractor.Unfortunately, the government hates the idea of independent contractors and the IRS has b
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Boring Beauties With Powerhouse Yields
Posted by baracc 317 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
ELECTRIC-UTILITY STOCKS may lack sizzle, but many sport attractively low price-earnings multiples and offer ample dividend yields.Regulated utilities now trade for an average of 12 times projected 2009 profits, a sharp discount to the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index, which, at around 1040, fetches around 17 times this year's anticipated profits. Based on 2010 earnings estimates, the utiliti
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Stocks ended modestly lower Thursday as investors struggled to balance hopes for an economic recovery with fears that equities have surged too far, too fast.
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When markets waver, growth investing is a high-risk, high-volatility proposition. But when they roar back to life, the momentum is rocket fuel for stocks that out-earn their peers.
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10 Things Plastic Surgeons Won't Tell You (10 Things)
Posted by baracc 419 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
1. “I trained a whole weekend to learn this procedure.”With skyrocketing malpractice premiums and the Kafkaesque insurance system, it’s little wonder M.D.’s are flocking to the plastic surgery biz. It’s easy to get into (legally, any doctor can do it), patients pay up front for surgery, and demand is up: The number of cosmetic procedures increased 59 percent from 200
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Mourning Our Money (Tough Customer)
Posted by baracc 419 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
After last year’s market meltdown wiped away huge chunks of their savings, more investors have decided to seek professional help. Just not from a financial advisor.Manhattan grief counselor Diana Nash, for one, typically sees clients who are struggling with the loss of someone close—a parent, a child, a spouse. But lately, she’s taken on a handful of clients who want help dealin
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Stocks have been on the best three-month tear since 1982 -- and there's little in the week ahead to interrupt the flow.
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Stocks struggled Friday at the end of another up week for Wall Street as investors welcomed a report showing that the pace of job losses is starting to slow, but showed caution after the market's recent advance.
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10 Things Your Casino Won't Tell You (10 Things)
Posted by baracc 442 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
1. “When we say, ‘The house always wins,’ we mean it.”Maybe you’ve had a good night or two at the casino sometime in the past decade, but it’s the house that’s really hit the jackpot. Visitors gambled and lost more than $34 billion at U.S. casinos in 2006, up from about $17 billion in 1996—not that the casinos are passing much of that growth on to c
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Hewing to High-Quality Junk
Posted by baracc 442 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
HIGH-YIELD CORPORATE BONDS HAVE HAD an impressive rally since early March. So is it time to get off the train? Not yet, says J. Matthew Philo, a veteran high-yield manager at MacKay Shields, an asset manager based in New York with about $30 billion under management.While Philo, 49 years old, still sees value in this sector, he is focusing on the higher-quality end of the junk-bond spectrum. He an
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Are These CEOs Having a Good Mother's Day? (On the Street)
Posted by baracc 446 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
For most moms, a traditional Mother’s Day present could mean flowers, a card or a celebratory brunch. But for one select group, a different kind of gift might be more welcome: a better share price.We’re talking, of course, about America’s CEO moms. These women helm some of the biggest companies in the world. Over a dozen of the blue chips in the S&P 500 are run by women&mdas
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