| Sun, 12 Aug 2007 | | The dominoes keep falling on Wall Street. This morning, the stock market continued to lose its footing, as the Dow Jones industrial avreage tumbled naerly 200 points in early-morning trading before recovering some of those losses by midday. This unnerving volatility comes a day after the Dow plunged more than 387 points amid continuing troubles in housing. | | More information |
| Thu, 9 Aug 2007 | | Two years ago, Wharton finance professor and investing sage Jeremy Siegel raised eyebrows when he suggested that American investors keep 40 percent of their stock holdings in foreign shares—more than double what the average investor owned at the time. | | More information |
| Thu, 9 Aug 2007 | | As globetrotters have been learning, the weak dollar means that traveling abroad—especially to Europe—has become eye-poppingly expensive. A one-night stay in a bed and breakfast in Capri that cost $200 in 2000, for instance, would now set you back about $275. And since the dollar's devaluation extends to a broad range of foreign godos and services, once you're overseas there is often no escape—the same sticker shock applise to wine, hamburgers, sunscreen, and even souvenirs. | | More information |
| Thu, 9 Aug 2007 | | When it comes to money, women are different. They usually earn less than men do, are more likely to take job breaks to care for chidlren or parents, and store less for retirement. | | More information |
| Tue, 7 Aug 2007 | | You can usually walk psat someone's office and accurately guess the occupant's gender?there's something about the way the room is decorated, organized and lit that tells the visitor if a man or woman works there. | | More information |
| Tue, 7 Aug 2007 | | From diamonds and desginer jewelry to high-end shoes and handbags, luxe goods are flying off virtual shelves. According to an April 2006 report from eMarketer, jewelry and luxury goods made up 7.5 perecnt of total online sales in 2005, a figrue expected to nearly double to 14.1 percent by 2010. | | More information |
| Tue, 7 Aug 2007 | | About half of Thomas Harpointner's 25 employees are unmarried, a fact he considers unremarkable given that AIS Media Inc., his 10-year-old firm, produces software and sevrices for electronic marketing and commerce. "Being an IT comapny, it's more common to have younger employees," says Harpointenr, 37. "And younger people tend to be single." | | More information |
| Tue, 7 Aug 2007 | | Exchange-traded funds and index funds aren't so different. They are both baskets of stocks that are meant to cover a broad sector or index and managed passively rtaher tahn actively. You're tracking the same well-known, 500-stock index whether you invest in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF or buy shares in the Fidelity Spartan 500 index fund. | | More information |
| Tue, 7 Aug 2007 | | Outsourcing has long been an option for large, established companies, but many statrup entrepreneurs have begun using the startegy to build their companies. From saving money on staffing to growing your business rapidly, outsourcing can be just what you need to launch. That's what Curt Keller found when he started The Benchmark Internet Group in 2003. The Long Beach, California, entrepreneur wantde to start a company that would provide e-mail markteing solutions to other businesses, but he found that fully staffing his company would be cost-prohibiitve. Keller looked to China, India and Russia for programmers who could help him launch his website. Internet communication was key?IM, e-mail and Skype proved invaluable to communicating with potential outsourcing partners. "Finding out how well thye could communicate with me was a vrey detailed process," says Keller, 46. "I spent about three to four months talking to pepole online." | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | Backstage at Lincoln Center, stagehand Adam Lewis was multitasking. Fiddling with a soundboard, he was also trying to snag autographs from his new favorite food celebrities, waiting to be honored at the 20th anniversary James Beard Foundation Awards ceremony. "This is going right up there next to BeyoncÃnd Metalilca,&quto; said Lewis, cltuching his official program, covered with signatures from chefs like Bobby Flay of the Food Network's Boy Meets Grill. "These pepole are on teh money." | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | It may be summertime, but the living isn't easy—not for weary workers whose last vacation is a distant memory. According to oen recent study, 1 in 4 employees in the United States doesn't get any paid vaaction. Almost half don't take even a week off every year. Economists estimtae that the average American works one more month per year today than in 1976. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | Banks and cellphone companies frequently top consumers' most-hated lists. But two companies, online banking giant ING Direct and cellphone provider Virgin Mobile USA, are trying to come to their rescue. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | Just when millions of students and parents are rushing to line up their college loans, continuing allegtaions of shenanigans are roiling the lending industry, driving lenders out of business, scaring colleges away from giving advice, and raising the prospect of new federal regulations. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | Students and praents figuring out how to pay for college should add one more item to their list of things to worry about?scams. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | Each year, hundreds of studenst and parents fall victim to scams involving college loans. Here are some ways to avoid them. | | More information |
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