Archive for August, 2009

Shanghai stocks fall to 3-month low on bank lending worries. Stronger yen drags on Nikkei after election.

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Chinese stocks swoon – down 6%

Real Madrid CF’s crop of big-money signings opened the Spanish season with a narrow victory while there were significant victories elsewhere for FC Internazionale Milano and Manchester United FC.

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Weekend review

HONG KONG – Chinese stocks tumbled 5 percent to a three-month low on Monday, weighing on Asian stocks and sapping investor willingness to put money at risk, while the yen rose sharply after Japanese voters swept the opposition into power.

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CA-BUSINESS Summary

Fair or not, that is how I view Jason Zweig, the weekly writer of the Wall Street Journal’s Intelligent Investor. Before he got his gig at the Journal, Zweig was familiar to many value investors for his in-depth commentary in the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s seminal investment tome for the layman, The Intelligent Investor.

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A Relapsed Value Investor

Investors in long-term Treasury bonds and high-grade corporates run a serious risk of losing money in real, inflation-adjusted terms, over the next few years. They may lose money even before you count inflation.

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Brett Arends’ ROI: Yes, there’s even a risk in Treasury bond funds

Exactly one year ago, worries about the economy were giving way to cautious optimism.

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September tends to stir up ill winds for stocks

Therapists, school psychologists and guidance counselors say they’ve seen a growing number of children struggling with stress due to their families’ financial problems.

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Money troubles can weigh heavily on kids

A tree-lined intersection near Chaparral Elementary School is getting a major makeover because of safety worries. Poway is preparing to spend $353,000 in state grant money to overhaul where Valle Verde Road meets Solera Way, on the city’s hilly north side.

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Taming traffic on school route

Arne Duncan, appointed by President Barack Obama to be his secretary of education, knows he better do something about the state of public schools. His predecessors had less than $20 million in discretionary funding to help the nation’s struggling public schools.

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U.S. schools chief seeks big changes, has money to spend

She grew up reading Mad Magazine and Pam Pitts’ idea to teach financial literacy through a comic book struck some people as, well, a little mad.

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Financial counselor pens comic book to teach hard lessons of money management