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Investing: The 6 Best Fidelity funds
Kiplinger's Money PowerFidelity excels when it gives free rein to its best stock pickers, as it does with the four stock funds below. A consistent municipal bond fund and a top-notch emerging-markets bond fund round out our picks. -- Contrafund (symbol FCNTX). Will Danoff...Tags: Ross Stores Incorporated, Mutual Funds, Coca-Cola Co., Credit and Debt, Economy, Business and Finance
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Investing: Carl Icahn: Better than Buffett?
Kiplinger's Money PowerCarl Icahn, 76, is arguably one of the great value investors of all time, and his Icahn Enterprises, launched in 1987 as American Real Estate Partners, has an impressive record. Despite a staggering share-price decline in 2008, the units (the firm is...Tags: Chesapeake Energy Corp., Carl Icahn, American Railcar Industries Incorporated, Federal-Mogul Corporation, Lexapro (drug)
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Possibility of Baltimore Sun sale brings interest from investors
The possibility that the Tribune Co. will sell its newspapers after an imminent exit from bankruptcy has set off a new round of speculation about The Baltimore Sun's future ownership — along with expressions of interest from potential buyers....
Tags: Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Career and Workplace, News Corp., Washington Post Co., Advertising
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Let the taxi app roll
If Hollywood remade "The Graduate" and set it in 1980, the one word the businessman would have for Dustin Hoffman's character wouldn't be "plastics." It'd be "medallions." That's because the single greatest investment you could have made over the last...
Tags: Dustin Hoffman, Jimmy Carter, Passenger Cars, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Computer Hardware
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Let the real fat cats pay their fair share
Victor Davis HansonWho exactly were the rich who, as the president said, were not "paying their fair share"? The rapper Jay-Z (net worth: nearly $500 million)? The actor Johnny Depp (2011 income: $50 million)? Neither seems to have heard the president's earlier warning...Tags: Taxation, Johnny Depp, Democratic Party, Susan Rice, Fannie Mae
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Buffett's firm adds Deere stake, ups bank holdings
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Billionaire Warren Buffett's company revealed several new investments on Nov. 14, including a stake in Deere & Co., as part of a busy quarter of buying and selling for Berkshire Hathaway Inc. The changes in Berkshire's investments...Tags: Machine Manufacturing, Precision Castparts Corporation, Kraft Foods Group, Inc., CVS Corp., U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Somerset County's fiscal cliff
The U.S. faces a fiscal cliff. Here is why Somerset County does. Last year's commissioner's race had county debt ranging from $34 million on up. The actual number doesn't matter. What does matter are the impending signs. 1. The county is not close to...Tags: Fiscal Cliff
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Proposition 30, 38 hot education topics on Tuesday's ballot
Digital Media News EditorMiguel Hidalgo Elementary School students challenged each other to swing higher on the swing set, flying high above others watching them in awe from the ground. Others shot hoops or played soccer until the bell rang and the teachers blew their whistles,...Tags: Government, Republican Party, National Government, Teachers, Teaching and Learning
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Four Hoosiers make Forbes list of wealthiest Americans
The rich got quite a bit richer this past year, according to this year's rankings of the 400 wealthiest Americans. Forbes magazine released its annual list on Wednesday, and the combined net worth jumped 13 percent to $1.7 trillion in 2012, up from $1....
Tags: Time (magazine), Warren Buffett, Herbert Simon, Bill Gates, Simon Property Group, Inc.
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Warren Buffett Completes Cancer Treatment
CNNNEW YORK (CNN) -- Billionaire investor Warren Buffett says he has completed treatment for a mild case of prostate cancer, according to a published report. Speaking Friday to executives of newspapers he has recently acquired, Buffett was quoted by The...Tags: Prostate Cancer, Warren Buffett, CNN (tv network), Cancer
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Investing: Blue chip mutual funds
Kiplinger's Money PowerFiscal cliff, shmiscal cliff. When it comes to investing, you can either sweat over the day's news and what it might mean for your stocks, or you can choose investments that will thrive, or at least not cause you horrific losses, no matter what the course...Tags: Personal Finance, Mutual Funds, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance
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Investing: Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway are thriving
Kiplinger's Money PowerBirthday greetings to Warren Buffett, who shows no signs of slowing down even as he turns 82. As Buffett ages, the question of what Berkshire Hathaway (symbol BRK-B) will look like -- and what its shares will be worth -- once its legendary chairman and...Tags: GEICO, Buyback, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, Companies and Corporations, Warren Buffett
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