Tax software can help with cost-basis rules
By Matt Krantz, USA TODAY Q: Can computer software or Web sites help investors make sense of the new investment cost-basis rules this year? By Matt Krantz A: The rulebook for investors, regarding the way they pay their taxes, is being rewritten.
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Romney IRA's Offshore Investments: Helping His Tax Bill?
Tax experts said some of the offshore holdings are likely intended to help Mr. Romney avoid paying an obscure but hefty tax of as much as 35% on some of those investments, held in a tax-deferred retirement account. As The Wall Street Journal reported …
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Stocks That Boost the Economy
The last several years' tough economic times have been replete with mass layoffs, helping our unemployment problem become even more bleak in a vicious circle of joblessness. Unfortunately, many investors adhere to Wall Street's conventional wisdom: …
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McGinn, Smith arraigned on fraud charges
The two allegedly took 8 million in investor dollars using it to support their lavish lifestyles. Timothy McGinn and David Smith arrived at US District Court in Albany on Friday to be arraigned on a 30 count indictment, accused of taking millions from …
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Guggenheim Investments Further Expands Its Fixed-Income Mutual Fund Lineup
Investments in syndicated bank loans generally offer a floating interest rate and involve special types of risks. ? The fund is subject to active trading risks that may increase volatility and impact its ability to achieve its investment objective.
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The Best and Worst Investments for 2012
Since rising interest rates are a death sentence to bond yields, any improvements we see in 2012 among other investment types will make bonds a less attractive option. Even so, when compared to treasuries, municipal bond interest rates remain …
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Are Investors Really This Dumb?
Perhaps most important, neither fund has particularly rare investments. With a combination of derivatives and various types of bonds, the portfolio resembles something you'd expect to see in many high-yield portfolios. To be clear, I'm not knocking …
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Artists duel for Knight grants
Most ideas focused on expanding a certain artistic genre throughout the city, like music or visual art. One of the recipients was Temple Baptist Church, who was awarded $ 20000 in grant money from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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Kate Gosselin Shares Money-Saving Tips
Other ways Kate saves money include recycling anything that can be reused, buying in bulk, cutting and using coupons, making lunch instead of eating out, and cooking most things from scratch. Do you think these are ideas you could implement to help …
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Danville Public Works aiming to save money on trash
Two innovative ideas from Danville's Public Works Department will save residents money while making the department more efficient, according to Rick Drazenovich, director of public works. Drazenovich gave Danville City Council members a proposal to cut …
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A Foolish Week of Telecom
By Dan Radovsky, The Motley Fool Posted 1:10PM 01/21/12 Investing Ahoy, you online pirates — you're safe for at least another week from the likes of the United States Senate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced in a statement, …
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Is Time Warner Cable a Cash King?
But given the future uncertainty of these businesses (especially EarthLink and United Online), I'd have to investigate much further before I invested. The cash king margin can help you find highly profitable businesses, but it should be only the start …
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Did Google Just Break Its Cash Machine?
The online giant saw $ 10.6 billion in raw sales, or $ 8.1 billion after deducting traffic-acquisition costs trickling down into $ 9.50 of earnings per share. Many observers, myself included, were troubled by lower revenues per advertising click. …
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Confessions of a Money Manager: On getting back into the stock market
And if that is the case, how should these selling investors re-enter the stock market? Psychologically, it's very difficult for investors who sold out of the market to get back in. That's because their egos can't take accepting the mistake of selling …
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6 Steps to a Winning Portfolio in 2012
The market didn't do much in 2011, ending the year close to where it started. But most investors didn't get a flat finish in their portfolios. In fact, the average stock market investor lost money in 2011. The simple answer is that they were in the …
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With Nasdaq soaring, is 2012 tech's breakout year?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The stock market has had an impressive January. The staid companies that make up the Dow Jones industrial average have gained 4 percent in three weeks, and the broader market has done even better. But the Nasdaq composite — a …
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