Financial Planner / Your Viewing and Listening
Some highlights of business programming. (All times PDT)
Today
* 5:30 p.m.: “Nightly Business Report.” Hugh Johnson, chief investment officer, First Albany. (KCET; also airs at 6:30 p.m. on KOCE)
* 8:30 p.m.: “Wall Street Week With Louis Rukeyser.” Thomas McManus, Bank of America Securities. (KCET; also airs Saturday at 6 p.m. on KOCE)
Saturday
* 7 a.m.: “TheStreet.com.” Robert Friedman, CIO of Mutual Advisers (Fox; also airs Sunday at 7 a.m.)
* 9 a.m.: “The Motley Fool Radio Show.” UPS’ public offering; Cisco earnings; Microsoft decision; and Craig Venter with genetic research company Solara. (KFI-AM [640])
* 11:30 a.m.: “CBS MarketWatch Weekend.” Holiday toy retailers; creating your own virtual store. (KCBS)
* 1 p.m.: “Money Talk” with Bob Brinker. (KABC-AM [790]; also airs Sunday at 1 p.m.)
* 4:30 p.m., 11 p.m.: “Weekend Squawk Box.” Ken Shapiro, president and founder, Condor Capital. (CNBC; also Sunday at 4:30 p.m.)
Sunday
* 10 a.m.: “Mr. Money” with Mark Rothstein. (KRLA-AM [1110])
Monday
*5:30 p.m.: “Nightly Business Report.” Scott Gurvey’s Y2K update. (KCET)
Tuesday-Thursday
* 5:30 p.m.: “Nightly Business Report.” Special series: Forbes Executive Women’s Forum with Linda O’Bryon. (KCET)
Wednesday
* 5:30 p.m.: “Nightly Business Report.” James Glassman, author of “Dow 36,000,” on short-term versus long-term investing. (KCET)
Weekend Reading
“How to Hide Money from Your Husband ... and Other Time-Honored Ways to Build a Nest Egg,” by Heidi Evans (Simon & Schuster, $20). Wall Street Journal reporter Heidi Evans raises a host of legal and ethical issues with some of her advice and tactics, which she calls “the best-kept secret of marriage.” Evans’ contention is that separate and, if necessary, secret savings are a necessity in an era when many marriages fail. One could easily ask, however, whether keeping secrets might itself lead to a few divorces. On the other hand, the chapter on tactics husbands have traditionally used to hide assets could be eye-opening to any spouse who may be facing divorce and who is not a full partner in the marriage’s financial arrangements.
