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Market Wrap: Stocks Advance as Nasdaq Sets Closing Record

May 27, 2014

Bryan Thomas/Getty Images NEW YORK -- The Nasdaq composite, the U.S. market index most closely associated with technology stocks, closed at an all-time high Thursday, surpassing a 2000 record set just befor...

BofA’s Merrill Lynch Unit Fined for Mutual Fund Overcharges

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May 24, 2014

Mutual Funds

Richard Levine/Alamy NEW YORK -- Bank of America's (BAC) Merrill Lynch unit was fined $8 million and will reimburse $24.4 million to customers to settle allegations that it overcharged more than 47,000 reti...

AmTrust Financial: A Five-Star Stock That’s Prepared to Pop

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May 23, 2014

Insurance Industry

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The 5 Best Investments of 2014

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May 20, 2014

Mutual Funds

Aijaz Rahi/AP Stock-market investors continued to have good fortune in 2014, with the Dow Jones Industrials (^DJI) having set more than three dozen records this year and the S&P 500 (^GPSC) topping the Do...

Market Wrap: Wall Street Rises but Energy Shares Fall

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May 19, 2014

Energy

Richard Drew/AP NEW YORK -- Stocks closed higher Wednesday but were down from earlier highs as energy stocks declined and Greece's debt crisis showed no clear signs of resolution. The benchmark S&P 500...

Your Retirement Account Should Look Like a Nutrition Label

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May 17, 2014

Mutual Funds

Getty Images Does your retirement adviser have your back? A recent study by the White House suggests the answer might be no, and that's costing Americans $17 billion a year. Every retirement fund comes with...

Why Your Insurance Premiums Just Went Up (and What to Do About It)

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May 17, 2014

Insurance Industry

Have you noticed that your insurance premiums are going up lately? Going up a lot? You're not alone. According to a new report out from Bankrate.com, more than one-third of U.S. consumers say their insurance c...

Twitter’s ‘Anti-Facebook’ IPO Tactics Win Over Some Investors

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May 10, 2014

Ipos

Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTwitter CEO Richard Costolo, left, and Chief Financial Officer Mike Gupta leave JPMorgan Chase headquarters in New York last Friday. Institutional investors who met with ...

Vanguard Founder John Bogle Sees No Good Alternatives to Indexing

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May 9, 2014

Index Funds

John C. Bogle, who revolutionized the way Americans invest their money, learned the value of a dollar when he was young. His family's fortune was wiped out by the Great Depression, forcing the 80-year-old found...

Elder Abuse: How to Protect Grandma From Con Men and Thieves

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May 8, 2014

Insurance Industry

Who would pick the pocket of your grandma or grandpa? Apparently, any number of people. Older Americans are losing $2.9 billion annually to elder financial abuse, a 12% increase from the $2.6 billion estimated ...

The Adrenaline-Pumping Ride of GoPro’s IPO

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May 7, 2014

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gopro.com If a thrill-seeking mountain biker wants to take on some choppy terrain, it might not be a bad idea to ride GoPro's (GPRO) stock chart. One of the market's most volatile stocks is the maker of weara...

Manufacturing Contracts, but Rest of Economy Hums Along

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May 6, 2014

Energy

Nam Y. Huh/APWASHINGTON -- U.S. manufacturing contracted in November for the first time in three years as the sector buckled under the weight of a strong dollar and deep spending cuts by energy firms, but robus...

Week’s Winners and Losers: Hot IPO, Hard Times for Hardwood

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May 6, 2014

Ipos

David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images There were plenty of winners and losers this week, with a new e-commerce company soaring by better than 50 percent on its first day of trading and one of this year...

The Risky Funds Ringing Alarm Bells in 2014

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May 2, 2014

Mutual Funds

Alamy Brokers prodding individual investors into putting their money into certain key kinds of riskier assets are facing a crackdown from U.S. authorities. Frontier funds, which focus on up-and-coming emergi...

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