Retirement Planning and Investing

Read about key developments in the United States and elsewhere that are most relevant to investors interested in retirement planning and investing.

Early Web and Thanksgiving Day Sales Make Black Friday Unimportant

Retailers anxious to grab a piece of consumers’ holiday pies are pushing the Christmas shopping season earlier and...

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DirecTV Clobbers Q3 Earnings Estimates

DirecTV combined a growing subscriber base with an increase in subscriber rates to produce sterling Q3 earnings.

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BlackBerry Sale Scuttled, CEO Ejected

BlackBerry stunned investors this morning when it announced that it would not complete the previously reported sale to...

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HSBC Bucks Bad Bank Trend

At a time when U.S. banking giants like JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America are being held out...

Global Factories Pick up the Pace in October

Last month, manufacturing across the world expanded, with U.S. factory output growing at its best rate in more...

If You’re Not Investing, Here’s Why You Need to Pay Yourself First

While I love stocks long-term, there are some reasons to be concerned in the short term.

Vernon Davis, NFL player

IPOs from the NFL

Vernon Davis, the starting tight end for the San Francisco 49ers, is the second National Football League (NFL)...

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Next Google OS Aimed at Low-End Devices, Global Market Penetration

The next version of Google’s Android operating system, nicknamed KitKat, was launched today, along with the new Nexus...

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My Meeting with Top Government Economic Officials

A couple of weeks ago, I announced the good news that the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic...

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Tesla Shares Doing the ‘Electric Slide’

Shares of Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors fell for the third straight day yesterday, losing 5 percent of their...