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Baby boomers should be checking, tweaking investments once a year
Baby boomers should be reviewing their retirement portfolios once a year and tweaking or re-balancing them, if necessary, says Delia Fernandez, a fee-only certified financial planner. Fernandez is the founder of Fernandez Financial Advisory in Los...
Tags: Heart Attack, Economy, Business and Finance, Stock Market, Financial Planning
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What's in millennials' wallets? Fewer credit cards
Ringed by the posh shops of Beverly Center, Tim Ratliff said no — he didn't have a credit card. He didn't need one. "I just hear so many horror stories about people being in debt," said Ratliff, 21, who studies psychology at Ohio State University....
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Passenger Cars, Consumers, The Ohio State University, Education
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Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting
WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Food and Drug Administration, Michael Chertoff, Human Genome Sciences Inc., Science and Technology
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Healthy savings, no debt but worried about retirement
Call it retirement anxiety, or maybe recession obsession. For all of their married life, Patrick Webster, 63, and Susie Martin, 54, have been extremely frugal. Webster and Martin, who both work at Marymount College in Rancho Palos Verdes, have been...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Starbucks Corp., Mutual Funds, Stock Market
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Eurozone recession continues
WASHINGTON — Europe's recession stretched into the first three months of the year, making it the single-currency region's longest downturn and raising concerns about its effect on the U.S. recovery. The 17-nation Eurozone economy contracted 0.2%...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, European Union, European Central Bank, Labor Markets, Italy
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Enron's Jeff Skilling doesn't deserve a break
As if you didn't know this already, we're coddling criminals in America. By that I don't mean the petty drug dealers, three-strikes necklace-snatchers and other mooks filling up our state prisons; many of them are doing hard time. I'm talking about...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Countrywide Financial Corp., Theft
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Consumer prices fall 0.4% on cheaper gas
A sharp fall in the cost of gas drove a measure of U.S. consumer prices down last month by the most since December 2008. Outside the drop in fuel costs, prices were largely unchanged. The consumer price index fell 0.4 percent in April from March, the...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Productivity, Consumers, Market and Exchange, Federal Reserve
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'Star Trek' to hit warp speed. ESPN takes U.S. Open. CW upfront.
After the coffee. Before the flight back to Los Angeles. The Skinny: Finally heading home after a week and a half in New York. Hope my cats remember me and didn't tear our place up. Friday's headlines include the weekend box-office preview, some...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, J.J. Abrams, Iron Man 3 (movie), Sony Corp., ESPN (tv network)
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Tesla to raise $830 million from investors, repay U.S. debt
Fresh off its first profitable quarter, Tesla Motors Inc. plans to raise about $830 million in a stock and debt offering that will enable the electric car maker to pay off its $465-million federal loan. Founder Elon Musk, who owns 33 million shares,...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Passenger Cars, Automotive Equipment, Elon Musk, Fuel-efficient Vehicles
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JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon facing push to drop chairman title
NEW YORK — A major shareholder vote next week has Wall Street abuzz over the power and future of Jamie Dimon, leader of the country's biggest bank. As chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co., Dimon burnished his reputation by steering...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, California Public Employees' Retirement System, Financial Markets, Pension and Welfare, Corporate Officers
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Jerry Brown's plan could increase future school costs
SACRAMENTO -- Even as Gov. Jerry Brown pledges to chip away at the state’s debt, his budget plan will leave California on the hook for billions more in school funding down the line. The situation is the result of California’s complicated...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Jerry Brown, Regional Authority, Budgets and Budgeting, Government
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Analyst disputes Brown's budget outlook as too glum
SACRAMENTO — California's financial picture is much brighter than Gov. Jerry Brown suggested in his latest spending plan, according to the Legislature's top budget advisor, who said the state will have $3.2 billion more at its disposal than the...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Jerry Brown, Regional Authority
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