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The new young investor: Shunning stocks
September 7, 2010When 18-year-old Robert White decided to jumpstart his retirement plan, he invested his life savings of $25,000 into an aggressive mutual fund.
Is Hurd really worth $6 billion?
September 7, 2010If it weren't insulting enough that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison publicly blasted Hewlett-Packard for letting Mark Hurd go, it now turns out that HP's loss is Oracle's gain.
Stocks fall on European jitters
September 7, 2010U.S. stocks fell Tuesday as renewed worries about European banks weighed on financial stocks and investors flocked to such safe-haven assets as the dollar, Treasurys and gold.
Bank stress socks Europe
September 7, 2010
Gold glitters on debt jitters
September 7, 2010
Bonds rise as European concerns 'simmer'
September 7, 2010Investors returned from a holiday weekend with a gloomier outlook on the economy, thanks to an old concern that won't seem to die -- the health of European banks.
4 surprise bright spots in the economy
September 7, 2010Good economic news has been hard to come by lately, but not all is doom and gloom in America these days. The end of summer ushered in a few signs of progress in some of the unlikeliest corners of the economy. They are no guarantee that the good times are around the corner, but they do provide a helpful reminder that this slow recovery is exactly that: a recovery.
Obama's $200 billion tax cut for businesses - CNN
September 7, 2010In another move aimed at stabilizing the still-shaky economy, President Barack Obama on Wednesday will introduce a new $200 billion tax cut giving businesses across the country an incentive to buy new equipment in the short term, according to a senior administration official.
10 Gen Y investors who shun stocks
September 7, 2010Surveys show young investors are strikingly less eager to take on risk now than they were in 2001. Why some are holding and others are folding.
Orszag: Extend tax cuts - even for the rich
September 7, 2010Peter Orszag, who recently stepped down as President Obama's budget director, called for a two-year extension of the Bush tax cuts in an article he wrote in the New York Times on Tuesday.
