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Mutual Fund Investors, Beware: A Scary Tax Bill Is Coming

November 30, 2015

Alamy The taxes you pay on your investment gains are among the biggest drags holding back the growth of your portfolio. Fortunately, many investors in stocks, bonds and other types of assets have almost compl...

The 5 Most Painful IPO Flops of 2013

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November 28, 2015

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Getty Images/Cultura As more than a few finance industry professionals will happily brag, 2013 was a banner year for initial public offerings with 156 new stocks coming to market -- the most since 2007 -- colle...

AIG Sells $2 Billion in Bonds

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November 26, 2015

Insurance Industry

Bailed-out insurance giant American International Group (AIG) sold $2 billion of bonds in its first debt offering since it was rescued in 2008, according to Bloomberg. In a two-part sale, AIG issued three-year...

Reading This on IE or Safari? You’re Likely Paying More for Car Insurance

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November 25, 2015

Insurance Industry

Cassandra Hubbart, DailyFinance On the surface, it might seem peculiar that your choice of Internet browser could affect the price you pay for car insurance. After all, browsers are merely tools for accessing t...

Wall Street This Week: Building, Furnishing Your Home

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November 24, 2015

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Jupiter Images From a consumer electronics retailer looking to get its stock back on track with strong projected growth in its latest quarter to a pair of real estate developers looking to make the most of th...

Reboot Your Savings: Identify Specific Retirement Dreams

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November 23, 2015

Mutual Funds

Getty Images If you were offered the choice to go to Paris next week or -- for the same amount of money -- take a whirlwind tour of 10 European countries 10 years from now, which would you choose? The futu...

The 10 Best-Performing ETFs of 2014 – So Far

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November 19, 2015

Mutual Funds

Bajinda/Shutterstock A great way to see which themes have worked in the market so far this year -- and which haven't -- is to look at the top 10 performing exchange traded funds. ETF's by definition are bask...

AIG Seeks Listing Committee Approval for AIA IPO

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November 18, 2015

Insurance Industry

American International Group (AIG) is seeking Hong Kong listing committee approval on Sept. 21 for the IPO of its Asian life insurance unit, Reuters reported. The date is earlier than expected, which could me...

Autos Lift Industrial Output; Consumer Sentiment Slips

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November 17, 2015

Energy

Mark Humphrey/APWorkers prepare chocolate molds at Olive and Sinclair Chocolate in Nashville, Tenn. WASHINGTON -- U.S. industrial output advanced at its strongest pace in eight months in July as auto produc...

10 Investing Facts You Probably Don’t Know — but Should

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November 10, 2015

Index Funds

The securities industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year in advertising, but that doesn't mean the general public is getting the straight scoop. Nor does the blanket coverage from the financial med...

Critical Issue After Anthem Hack: Alternatives to Passwords

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November 8, 2015

Insurance Industry

Alamy Most people have dozens of online accounts, all protected by passwords. Yet passwords are low tech, can easily be hacked and are a nuisance for most people to remember. Isn't there a better alternativ...

Market Wrap: Dow, S&P 500 Slip on Energy, Walmart; Tech Up

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November 4, 2015

Energy

Richard Drew/AP NEW YORK -- The Dow and S&P 500 eased Thursday following declines in energy shares and a disappointing outlook from Walmart, while the Nasdaq hit another 15-year high as Priceline shares...

Twitter CEO: No Regrets For a Smooth IPO

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November 4, 2015

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Kathy Willens/APA banner adorns the facade of the New York Stock Exchange in advance of Twitter's IPO Thursday. Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo said the company felt comfortable boosting its initial publ...

Market Wrap: Wall Street Falls After China Devaluation

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November 4, 2015

Energy

Richard Drew/AP NEW YORK -- U.S. stocks fell Tuesday as China's surprise devaluation of the yuan currency hit companies with a big exposure to the country and added to worries about the global economic outl...

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