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This Week in Business Tweets: Apple Love (Twitter Beat)
Posted by baracc 120 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
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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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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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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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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Major Indexes Surge on Surprising Jobs Data (Market Update)
Posted by baracc 446 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
News at a GlanceLabor Update: Unemployment hits 8.9%, job losses ease.Stocks Move: Major indexes rally for eighth week out of last nine. Stress Relief: Test results call for $75 bln more in capital.No Deal: April worst month for M&A since 2004.The LowdownA surprising jobs report brought the bulls back out, helping close the eighth week out of the last nine in poisitive territory.Stocks w
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Clorox Investors Could Clean Up
Posted by baracc 449 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
HOUSEWORK KNOWS NO RECESSION. THAT'S BAD news for practitioners, but good news for Clorox , whose shares left competitors in the dust last year. The company's stock fell about 6%, to 55, though dividend payments cut the loss to a mere 2%. That compares with a total loss of 36% in the Standard & Poor's 500.Clorox (CLX) is likely to keep outperforming, as the company's brands -- from its signat
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6 Tech Stocks That Still Look Cheap
Posted by baracc 450 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
Bank stocks had a magnificent run in April, measured in percents. Year-to-date, though, no sector has beaten technology. Within the S&P 500 index, tech climbed 17% through April. That beats consumer staples and health care, sectors that are supposed to weather downturns better than others.I can think of four possible explanations. First, tech got thumped harder than defensive industries l
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How Laid-Off Workers Can Cut Insurance Costs (Deal of the Day)
Posted by baracc 450 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
Unemployed workers looking to save cash should take a good, hard look at their insurance bills. Taking advantage of discounts and making some other smart moves can help shave hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars off premiums a year.Eliminating coverage you don't need, like collision insurance for a car that's several years old, for example, can save you as much as $1,000 a year, says Scott Simm
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Schlumberger Looks Like a Potential Gusher
Posted by baracc 452 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
INVESTORS WHO'VE LIVED THROUGH OIL-PATCH busts will tell you that, with oil-service stocks down about 60% from highs, the typical play is to buy the group before signs of an economic recovery become widespread. When demand revives, they'll all rise, the thinking goes, so there's no need to pay up for the more expensive shares of, say, Schlumberger , the biggest and arguably the best in the busine
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U.S. stocks were poised for a lower open Tuesday, as futures lost their momentum from the previous session, when the major gauges reached multi-month highs.
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Swine Flu Makes Forex a Sucker's Bet (On the Street)
Posted by baracc 458 days ago (http://www.smartmoney.com)
Among the immediate lessons to be learned from the market's reaction to the swine flu outbreak is that currency trading is a sucker's bet for average investors. The massive 24-hour global currency markets move so quickly and so relentlessly that foreign exchange trades are really best left to the professionals.Case in point: The U.S. dollar rose sharply Monday on fears the swine flu that originat
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