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In case you missed them, here are the top 10 videos that appeared on MarketWatch for the week of July 26-30: (source: Market Watch) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com
Despite signs of economic recovery, most U.S. companies are not planning to restore executive pay cuts or freezes made during the economic crisis in the next six months. (source: Watson Wyatt) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com
A survey by Watson Wyatt found that the number of companies that use target-date or lifecycle funds as their default investment option has increased sharply in the last few years, from 38 percent in 2006* to 62 percent today. (source: Watson Wyatt) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
A vast majority of employers anticipate that health care reform, if enacted, will lead to higher health care costs and weaken their role in providing coverage to workers. (source: Watson Wyatt) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com
AUSTRALIA'S biggest insurers have provided a worrying start to the financial results reporting period that moves into full swing next week. (source: The Australian) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com
SCOTLAND could be heading for a new repossessions crisis as public-sector cuts and rising unemployment threaten to tip thousands of struggling borrowers over the edge. (source: Scotsman) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
STARVED of decent savings rates and with rapidly diminishing access to affordable loans, can it be any surprise that savers and borrowers are increasingly looking to each othe (source: Scotsman) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
THE rental sector has become a landlords' market as demand has begun to outstrip supply, reducing the availability of new rental accommodation. David Alexander, owner of E (source: Scotsman) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com
You can reduce your risk in a stock without triggering a taxable sale. Here's how. (source: Forbes) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com
For many people, the most straightforward solution to an inheritance tax liability is to take out an insurance policy. This policy will be written into a trust so that when the person dies, their family will have enough money to be able to pay the tax bill... (source: E-Zine) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
Why you should shun talk of a ''stock-picker's market.'' (source: Forbes) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
When the IRS levies your bank account, it can be a trying time. Most taxpayers do not know the appropriate actions they need to take to release a bank account levy. The IRS tax code is extremely complex, which can make it virtually impossible for someone w... (source: E-Zine) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
Each year personal tax and accounting software becomes more efficient, which leaves the question of whether it's worth hiring an accountant to do the work or to just invest in the software. The answer may lie in your specific personal situation. Here are a... (source: E-Zine) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com
GRAINCORP and AWB will merge to form Australia's biggest grains marketer and rural services provider, with a market capitalisation of about $2 billion. (source: The Australian) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
Kuwait's Investment Dar has said a Kuwaiti court has granted the country's central bank four more months to submit a report on the Islamic investment firm's debt restructuring plan, Reuters has reported. Dar, which has been trying to restructure about KD1b... (source: AME) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com
Dubai Investments, the largest investment company listed on the Dubai Financial Market, reported a 32% decline in second-quarter profit as investment income dropped. Net income fell to Dhs196.3m ($53m) from Dhs287m a year earlier, the company said in a sta... (source: AME) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
Good reaction: Chemical company Ineos raised ?870m on the high-yield market The European high-yield market was, for years, driven by leveraged buyout activity. Now corporates are accessing the market in their own right. So, is European high yield coming of... (source: The Banker) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com
The cranes in Spain: a collapse in Spain's property market has created significant difficulties for the country's financial institutions Once considered one of the better-placed survivors of the financial crisis, the property bubble bursting in Spain has h... (source: The Banker) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
Many Western banks are rebounding from the huge losses of 2008 and have strengthened their grasp on the top of the rankings, but elsewhere the pain is just beginning. Philip Alexander reports. (source: The Banker) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com
The first five years of The Proactive Fund Investor newsletter have yielded some key lessons about succeeding in today's unpredictable markets. (source: Market Watch) - Share on Twitter - Share on Facebook - RSS feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com