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2 more executives leave Sears
Tribune reporterTwo top Sears Holdings Corp. executives announced they are leaving the company, the latest in a string of senior executives departing troubled retail chain. Chief Marketing Officer Maureen McGuire told her team Wednesday that she will leave at the end of...Tags: Marketing, Hoffman Estates, California, National Government, International Business Machines Corporation
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Fund manager cleared in stocks case
A hedge-fund manager did not engage in insider trading when his order to short a stock was executed before the announcement of the company's private placement, which he knew about, a federal judge ruled yesterday. John F. Mangan Jr., a former Friedman...Tags: Insider Trading, Judges, Justice System, Friedman Billings Ramsey Group Incorporated, Annapolis
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SEC to require data filing on interactive system
The Washington PostWASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission plans in the coming months to require that all publicly traded U.S. companies and mutual funds prepare their financial filings using a new interactive system that allows the information to be...Tags: Personal Finance, Securities
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VANGUARD MORGAN GROWTH FUND
Tribune Media ServicesWhy hasn't my investment in Vanguard Morgan Growth Fund done better lately? K.R., via e-mail Having Microsoft, whose shares are down sharply this year, as its largest stock holding hasn't helped. But Wellington Management's Paul Marrkand, who...Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Morningstar Incorporated, PepsiCo Incorporated, Boeing Co., Microsoft Corp.
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YOUR MONEY
Still opportunities in municipal bonds Usually staid and stable tax-exempt municipal-bond funds have been pummeled this year, suffering collateral damage from the mortgage meltdown. Why have funds that invest in boring-sounding instruments like New...Tags: Mortgages, New Jersey, Morningstar Incorporated, Personal Finance, Floods
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Hedge Fund Files For Bankruptcy
SageCrest Finance LLC, a hedge fund run by investment firm Windmill Management LLC, sought bankruptcy protection from creditors. The petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, filed in Bridgeport, listed assets of as much as $100 million and less than $10...Tags: Financially Distressed Companies, Bankruptcy
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Loving your house again
First, let me say this: Of course I have regrets. After all, the purchase of our family home in Hollywood with an adjustable-rate mega-jumbo mortgage closed a mere 119 days before Countrywide Financial Corp. announced that -- whoops! -- it had, uh, run...Tags: Ceremonies, Financial and Business Services, Society, Homes, Countrywide Financial Corp.
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Fooled by backward look
Be careful about investing with your eyes on the rearview mirror. Changes in winning and losing investments have come so swiftly of late that you might not have realized your favorite approach has backfired lately. International funds, the hot sector...Tags: Foreign Exchange Market, Petroleum Industry, Sales, Business, Trade Policy
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Find money for a rainy day
Tribune Media ServicesHard economic times can call for cold, hard cash. Whether financial pressure comes from rising gasoline and grocery bills, from a period without steady income or from a mortgage burden, emergency dollars are a necessity. Here are some options for...Tags: Financial Markets, Morningstar Incorporated, Finance, Homes, Contracts
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H. Brown, created money market fund
The New York TimesHenry B.R. Brown, who was a struggling financial consultant in 1969 when he and a partner, Bruce R. Bent, came up with an idea — the money-market mutual fund — that spawned a $3.5 trillion industry, died Monday in Leesburg, Va., where he lived...Tags: New York Times, Leesburg, Virginia, Personal Finance, Federal Reserve
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Investing in confusing times
Are you tired of the U.S. market upheaval, but itching to start investing some of the cash you've been stashing away? If so, you may be confused about which direction to head. Like every down market, there is little clarity about the near term....Tags: Morningstar Incorporated, Auto Trends, Personal Finance
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For Broadcom, not all of its chips are down
Tribune Media ServicesQ uestion: The news seems mixed on my Broadcom Corp. stock. Please clarify for me. -- D.M. Answer: It has a promising future but lingering scandal from the past. This Southern California manufacturer of an array of communications chips is expected to...Tags: Corporate Officers, Henry Samueli, Apple Inc., Morningstar Incorporated, Nokia Corp.
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