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Dollar gains, commodities lose as markets mull Fed risk

Talk the Federal Reserve might take a hawkish turn at its policy meeting next week, possibly by dropping its commitment to keeping rates low, has seen U.S.

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    Folks realize that, if they wait until they die to give a full inheritance, their heirs could be approaching or even in retirement themselves; “Aging is very expensive,” said Catherine Anne Seal, an elder law attorney in Colorado Springs, Colo. and vice president of the National Academy of Elder…

    MarketWatch

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    New prices on our Mobile Share Value Plans on the nation's most reliable 4G LTE network.

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  • Get Ready for a Pullback for Stocks

    An uptrend lifts the index by about 8 percent thru July, then gives way to a gentle decline before moving higher into year end. Technical strategist Chris Verrone of Strategas Research Partners LLC included the chart in his morning note to clients, and offered this interpretation: In addition to…

    Bloomberg

  • 10 Nasdaq stocks with returns of at least 240% in 2014

    10 Nasdaq stocks with returns of at least 240% in 2014 Tech-heavy index is staging a quiet, yet epic, comeback Getty Images The Nasdaq Composite Index is coming close to recovering from its epic loss when the dot-com bubble burst in 2000

    MarketWatch
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  • I Paid Off My Mortgage & My Credit Score Dropped 150 Points

    Sometimes paying your bill the wrong way — or in this case, trusting that an ex-spouse will get it right — can torpedo a good credit score, as one reader found out. When he got down to a small amount being owed ($188) on the small loan of our 80/20 split mortgage, he sent in a check for the final…

    Credit.com

  • Marc Faber: McDonald's shows bear market is coming

    Marc Faber has long predicted that a collapse in U.S. On Thursday he reiterated that call, saying there is fresh evidence that a bear market is ahead-courtesy of the Golden Arches. On Tuesday, McDonald's (MCD) reported that global same-store sales in August fell 3.7 percent in August, well short of…

    CNBC
    MCD $92.96 -0.04%

  • NASA's newest human spacecraft on the move

    NASA is one step closer to launching its newest spacecraft designed for humans. Workers at Kennedy Space Center gathered to watch as the Orion capsule emerged from its assembly hangar Thursday morning, less than three months from its first test flight. The capsule — sealed for protection — slowly…

    Associated Press

  • China, Russia to build seaport: report

    China and Russia will build one of the largest ports in northeast Asia on Russia's Sea of Japan coast, reports said, in a further sign of the powerhouses' growing alliance. The seaport is expected to be able to handle some 60 million tonnes of cargo a year, China's state-run People's Daily Online…

    AFP

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  • The Man Who Left Salesforce.com To Build A $600 Million Startup Takes It Personally When Employees Leave His Own Company

    When Todd McKinnon first joined Salesforce.com in 2003, his engineering team had 15 people. McKinnon loved his Salesforce job. But McKinnon saw a huge business opportunity in cloud password management that he couldn’t pass up.

    Business Insider
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    John Bogle on the Rise of Index Funds

    The founder of Vanguard explains why his invention is winning the battle for assets. Plus: The problem with ETFs, and why we need a transaction tax.

    WSJ Live

  • Swiss watch industry denies 'Nokia moment' from new Apple Watch

    ZURICH/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Apple Inc's iPod upended the music industry, and its iPhone knocked Nokia off its smartphone perch, but Swiss watch makers breezily dismissed warnings that the technology giant's new wristwatch gadget could do something similar to them. "They are essentially transient…

    Reuters
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  • How 6 Types of Retirement Income Are Taxed

    One of the biggest mistakes retirees make when calculating their living expenses is forgetting how big a bite state and federal taxes can take out of savings. This strategy makes sense for many retirees, but be careful if you have a lot of money in a traditional IRA or 401(k). If the accounts grow…

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    Why It’s a Good Time to Invest in Chinese Stocks

    The mainland stock market has some bargains for foreign investors after dismal performance in the past four years. Alan Wang of Value Partners tells the WSJ's Wei Gu why Stock Connect will make it lucrative to invest in Chinese stocks again.

    WSJ Live

  • Why Cramer thinks this retailer is 'incredible'

    Lands' End (LE) delivered quarterly earnings results that show "it's incredible how well the company is doing," CNBC's Jim Cramer said Wednesday. Lands' End was spun off from Sears (SHLD) in April. "People have to understand, when Lands' End was funneled from Sears, even though they had to pay that…

    CNBC

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    Step 2: See if your insurance covers the additional value you may have added to your home.

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  • India's love affair with gold may be over, as prices slide

    Kiran Laxman Salunkhe used to buy jewellery during religious festivals, but sliding gold prices have led the young farmer to break with his family's traditional investment. This year Salunkhe has deposited his hard-earned savings at the bank for the first time in a decade and bought farmland. "I…

    Reuters

  • MGM: New Jersey's Borgata Worth $1 Per Share, Says Nomura

    MGM: New Jersey's Borgata Worth $1 Per Share, Says Nomura After yesterday's close, MGM Resorts (MGM) released a statement saying it was re-qualified to resume a 50% ownership of Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, a New Jersey-based casino it co-owns with Boyd

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  • 7 money mistakes to avoid in your 20s

    7 money mistakes to avoid in your 20sWhen you’re in your 20s, it can be difficult to keep one eye on the future when the present already feels out of your control. More than 40% of young adults today are considered underemployed, working in jobs that

    Yahoo Finance

  • Argentina moves to sidestep US hedge funds in debt row

    Argentina passed a measure Thursday aimed at sidestepping a US court order that has blocked the country from paying back debt tied up in a feud with hedge funds. The immediate goal is to allow Argentina to make good on a debt payment of $200 million due on September 30. It is the latest move by…

    AFP

  • Apple Isn't Disrupting Credit Card Companies, It's Giving Them A Huge Gift

    Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Service, introduces Apple Pay. The announcement of Apple's new Apple Pay service marks another big gun — the biggest, probably — entering the mobile payments space. While tech startups in the mobile payments business talk frequently…

    Business Insider

  • Oil tanks: A nightmare for energy bulls

    Oil tanks: A nightmare for energy bulls Energy: Lower demand and plentiful supply a perfect nightmare for energy bulls. Today's weekly oil inventory numbers showed a huge build in oil inventories. Oil promptly dropped. Brent crude dropped below $100

    CNBC

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    Retirement Bucket Portfolios Made Simple

    A bucket approach to retirement investing can be both sensible and streamlined with these tips from Morningstar's Christine Benz.

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