How to Finance a Fixer-Upper Home Waynesboro Record Herald
(ARA) - A home that needs a lot of repair is what's known as a "fixer-upper" because it needs to be "fixed up." There are several reasons you might buy a fixer-upper.
Single parenting no picnic for mother Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil
Sometimes, just paying the bills is hard enough without the expense of holiday meals and gifts. But most parents want to try to make the season special for their children, and that creates a challenge.
Cornerstone Fund's New Fixed Distribution Policy Not in Best Interest of Shareholders SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance
An anonymous investor submits: For years the Board of Directors of the Cornerstone Strategic Value Fund and Cornerstone Total Return Fund has vowed publicly to maintain or increase the rate of fixed distributions, regardless of investment results.
Bear Stearns profits rise on merger fees and debt Reuters via Yahoo! News
Bear Stearns Cos. said on Thursday quarterly net income soared 38 percent, helped by gains from fees for merger advice and underwriting debt.
5 smart bond moves CNN Money
A plain-vanilla asset that generates steady returns - that's how most investors view bonds, and lately they've been living up to that image. Since the beginning of the year, most investments up and down the credit-quality scale have returned between 3% and 6%, according to research firm Lipper, just enough to deliver the two things that make fixed-income investments part of a balanced portfolio:
An In-Depth Look into Goldman's Record-Breaking Results Indie Research via Yahoo! Finance
As expected, Goldman Sachs posted stellar FQ4 results this week, but the numbers came in even better than anyone anticipated thanks to a $950 million gain on the IPO of China's leading bank ICBC.
Health Care Washington Post
Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein was online Wednesday, Dec. 13 at 11 a.m. ET to discuss pricing and cost accounting in the health-care sector.
Google Offers Workers Novel Stock Auction Program TechWeb via Yahoo! News
The search engine giant will add a twist to traditional stock option plans offered by Silicon Valley companies.
Lehman Brothers Reports Record Net Revenues, Net Income and Earnings Per Share for Fiscal 2006 FinanzNachrichten
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. ( Nachrichten / Aktienkurs ) today reported net income of $1.0 billion, or $1.72 per common share (diluted), for the fourth quarter ended November 30, 2006, representing increases of 22% and 25%, respectively, from net income of $823 million, or $1.38 per common share (diluted), reported for the fourth quarter of fiscal
Lou Dobbs Thinks You're a Fool Ludwig von Mises Institute
Lou Dobbs has made himself a crusader for the middle class on his CNN show. He's just written a book, War on the Middle Class , in which he describes government, corporate, and special interest groups which have unofficially declared war on the middle class and told working people where to go.
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