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Rising interest rates pose issue for target-date mutual funds
The appeal of age-based mutual funds is that investors generally don't have to worry about them. The funds are geared toward long-term goals such as retirement or a child's college education, and automatically shift into more conservative holdings...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Credit Ratings, Finance, Morningstar Incorporated, Money and Monetary Policy
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Letters: Shedding state parks
Re "State urged to give up some parks," March 26 The public and its elected and appointed representatives should be very cautious about relinquishing control or ownership of California's state parks to other groups or agencies, as recommended by a...
Tags: Gardens and Parks, Politics, State Parks, Travel, Tourism and Leisure
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Freddie Mac: Mortgage rates jump; 30-year fixed averages 3.63%
Mortgage rates moved sharply higher this week, with Freddie Mac pegging the typical rate on a 30-year fixed loan at 3.63%, up from 3.52% last week and 3.31% last fall when it set an all-time record low. Freddie Mac's weekly survey of what lenders are...
Tags: Economic Indicator, Mortgages, Freddie Mac, Financial and Business Services
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Bernanke warns Congress that budget cuts pose danger [Updated]
This post has been updated, as indicated below.WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke warned Tuesday that the upcoming budget cuts under the so-called sequestration would create a "significant" burden on an economy that is growing only moderately. In his semi-annual economic report...Tags: Federal Reserve, Unemployment, Patrick J. Toomey, Ben Bernanke, Financial Markets
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California will tap bond market for $2.7 billion
California will sell $2.7 billion worth of bonds in March, tapping the bond market for the first time since its credit rating was boosted earlier this year. The Golden State will sell $2.2 billion worth of general obligation bonds, which are tax-exempt,...
Tags: Credit Ratings, Credit and Debt, Financial Markets, Bill Lockyer, Ratings
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California accuses S&P of deception in $4-billion lawsuit
California has filed suit against Wall Street's biggest credit rating agency, Standard & Poor’s, charging the firm with violating the state's False Claims Act by using “magic numbers” and “guesses” to inflate ratings that...
Tags: BP Plc, Crime, Law and Justice, Securities, U.S. Department of Justice, Justice System
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State legislators seek crackdown on expensive form of school finance
L.A. NOWTwo state legislators are leading an effort to rein in an increasingly popular method of paying for classrooms and other school improvements. So-called capital improvement bonds often carry repayment costs several times higher than the amount borrowed.... -
Fed renews stimulus efforts, ties interest rates to jobless rate
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve, maintaining its aggressive efforts to stimulate a slow-growing economy burdened by high unemployment, said it would continue its large-scale bond-buying programs in the new year and, for the first time, announced...
Tags: Federal Reserve, Securities, Unemployment, Ben Bernanke, Labor Markets
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Mortgage rates dip slightly, back to near record, Freddie Mac says
Fixed mortgage rates eased slightly this week, with lenders offering 30-year loans to solid borrowers at an average interest rate of 3.32%, down from 3.34% last week and near the record low, according to the latest Freddie Mac survey. The big buyer and...
Tags: Federal Reserve, Mortgages, Finance, Freddie Mac, Homes
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Lift the debt ceiling, permanently
Republicans scoffed when President Obama demanded the power to raise the debt ceiling unilaterally in his first formal "fiscal cliff" offer to the GOP. And at first, I thought he was just staking out an extreme position for negotiating purposes. But Obama...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Medicare, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Justice System
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Stock markets in Europe and Canada edge higher
Stock and bond markets in the U.S. were closed Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, but trading took place in the rest of the world. European stocks rose while German bonds declined as European finance ministers met for the first time this...
Tags: Russia, France, Foreign Exchange Market, Energy Resources, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Dr. Strangebudget or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the fiscal cliff
Not to sound Panglossian, but all things considered, this whole "fiscal cliff" exercise hasn't been such a bad thing. I'm not saying it's been good for the economy or the public's faith in government. It's had the opposite effect, and things may get...
Tags: Barack Obama, Federal Reserve, National Government, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Ben Bernanke
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