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Posted: April 19th, 2008, 5:58pm EDT
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Strategies: The Odds for a Retirement Nest Egg, Recalculated
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 5:02pm EDT by By MARK HULBERT
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Though it may go against conventional wisdom, you can simply pick an allocation of stocks and bonds that you can live with for a long while and stick with it. -
Economic View: The Wealth Trajectory: Rewards for the Few
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 4:38pm EDT by By N. GREGORY MANKIW
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If there is one thing about the United States economy in recent years that is beyond dispute, it is this: It’s a great time to be rich. -
Airline Faults Shifting Rules About Safety
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 8:28am EDT by By MATTHEW L. WALD
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The Federal Aviation Administration deserves much of the blame for canceled flights, American Airlines says. -
Bear Stearns’s New Hires Become Job Seekers
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 3:01am EDT by By LOUISE STORY
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Some students had job offers rescinded, leaving them to confront one of the worst financial job markets in years. -
Stocks & Bonds: Stocks Jump on Google and Citigroup Results
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 2:36am EDT by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Wall Street bounded higher as results from Citigroup and Google helped ease investor anxiety about the health of corporate profits. -
Caterpillar’s Profit Climbs on Strength of Foreign Sales
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 1:59am EDT by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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The heavy equipment maker posted a 13 percent jump in first-quarter profits. -
Managers Among 4,650 Losing AT&T Jobs
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 1:58am EDT by By BLOOMBERG NEWS
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Most of the reductions apply to the local phone business, which lost 1.6 million residential lines last year as customers switched to cable and wireless phone service. -
Some See a Pause in the Fed’s Rate-Cutting
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 1:57am EDT by By BLOOMBERG NEWS
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Federal Reserve policy makers, sensing renewed inflation dangers and an economic boost from government rebate checks, may be nearing a pause in interest-rate cuts after the fastest reductions in two decades. -
Scandal to Cost Ex-Fannie Mae Officers Millions
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 1:57am EDT by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Franklin Raines and two other top Fannie Mae executives are paying a total of nearly $31.4 million in a settlement with the government over their roles in a 2004 accounting scandal. -
Cost Of Living: Cheaper, Yes, but Only on the Price
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 1:56am EDT by By M. P. DUNLEAVEY
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The experience of buying life insurance through an online agency can leave one to wonder whether it is worth the savings. -
What’s Offline: Don’t Stress Over Stress
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 1:49am EDT by By PAUL B. BROWN
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Advice to deal with work pressure, and other items. -
Executive Pursuits: Bartender, I’ll Have a Lesson in What You Do
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 1:48am EDT by By HARRY HURT III
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At my station inside the New York Bartending School, I knew at once that this was my kind of classroom. -
South Korea Will Lift Its Ban on American Beef
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 1:45am EDT by By CHOE SANG-HUN
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The decision ended a ban begun in 2003 over concerns about mad cow disease and removed a major dispute between the allies. -
Off the Charts: Except at Gas Pump, Not Much Spending Going On
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 1:45am EDT by By FLOYD NORRIS
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The strength in consumer sales, such as it was, was concentrated around Boston and New York, areas that, not coincidentally, attract many European tourists who enjoy strong currencies. -
Canada Takes Steps to Ban Most Plastic Baby Bottles
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 1:41am EDT by By IAN AUSTEN
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The move to ban polycarbonate infant bottles is the first action taken by any government against bisphenol-a, a chemical that has induced long-term changes in animals exposed to it. -
Xerox Reports a Loss, but Matches Expectations
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 1:40am EDT by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Xerox said Friday that a litigation charge left it with a loss of $244 million in the first quarter, but its results, excluding the one-time item, matched Wall Street expectations. -
Saturday Interview: When the Focus Is Expansion, Not Subprime Worries
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 1:39am EDT by By PATRICIA R. OLSEN
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Chief executive Thomas J. McInerney discussed industry mergers, ING’s promising acquisitions and how ING avoided the subprime mortgage pitfalls. -
Alliance Data Ends Deal for Its Takeover by Blackstone
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 1:37am EDT by By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED
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Alliance Data Systems, the credit card processor, sued the Blackstone Group in New York State court late Friday, accusing the private equity firm of breaching its agreement to buy the company for $6.4 billion. -
Citigroup Records a Loss and Plans 9,000 Layoffs
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 1:37am EDT by By ERIC DASH
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The results contained few surprises, and investors responded to the bank’s $5.1 billion loss by pushing markets sharply higher.