Investment

(Updates with Pimco’s Treasury holdings in 12th paragraph, latest yield in 13th.) Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Fidelity Investments, Vanguard Group Inc. and Pacific Investment Management Co., which together oversee $4.53 trillion, say U.S. inflation ...  

A pipe burst in your house and it is now flooded ... leaving you unprepared to tackle the finances of such an event. If you sell all or some of your structured settlement payments for a lump sum, you will be able to get the money you need to take care ...  

14 (Bloomberg) -- Moore Capital Management LLP, the $15 billion hedge fund founded by Louis Moore Bacon, bought an exchange-traded fund that tracks home builders and sold an ETF that tracks the performance of high-dividend paying stocks.  

Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Yale University, whose endowment strategy has been a model for U.S. schools, bought new shares of a China exchange-traded fund last quarter. The stake, valued at $23.2 million as of Dec. 31, was Yale's biggest new purchase ...  

H. Ronald Klasko, the founding partner of the immigration law firm of Klasko, Rulon, Stock & Seltzer, LLP, addressed immigration lawyers in Florida on one of the hottest areas of immigration law—the EB-5 investor visa program. His talk, entitled “EB-5 - Where are We Now?” was given at the South Florida Chapter Conference of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.  

Exeter Resource is actually a Canadian mineral exploration company focused on the exploration and development of the Caspiche project in Chile. On Monday, Exeter Resource fell 3.36% to $3.45 (XRA has a 52 week trading range of $2.42 to $5.84 a ...  

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Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) has announced that it has declared a dividend of $0.25 per share. The company's board of directors approved a record date for the quarterly dividend of February 24, 2012, and a payment date of March 16 ...  

Lord Freud said that the combination of tax changes, falling annuity rates, poor investment returns and increased life expectancy meant that the relatively generous pensions enjoyed by retirees today were a “one off”. “UK pensions are no longer the ...  

Many readers have written recently to ask whether they should buy variable annuities. Financial planners who recommend them extol such features as fixed minimum income, the possibility of increased income if the stock market does well, life insurance...  

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New York-based asset manager Van Eck Global announced today that its family of municipal bond Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) recently passed the $1 billion mark in combined assets under management (AUM). “Municipal bonds have emerged into the spotlight after long being one of the quieter corners of the investment landscape, and investors and advisors are seeing their current attractiveness as well as the potential...  

Exchange traded funds tracking solar energy stocks such as First Solar (NasdaqGS: FSLR - News) rallied 10% on Thursday with volume and performance picking up in the ETFs following a disastrous 2011. Shares of Guggenheim Solar ETF (NYSEArca ...  

USA TODAYGreek Finance Minister Debt Talks Progress, To Resume Midday FridayWall Street JournalATHENS (Dow Jones)--Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said Thursday that talks with the country's private creditors over a planned debt restructuring had made progress after a two and-a-half hour meeting. In remarks made to journalists, ...Greece finance minister warns against defaultAljazeera.comAsian stock markets mostly higher but Europe...  

Yahoo! SportsDavid Tyree's Catch is the Best Super Bowl Play Ever: Fan's OpinionYahoo! SportsBy Andrew Mindzak, Yahoo! Contributor Network 3 hours, 29 minutes ago The Super Bowl has provided many great memories, and several players have stepped up and made big plays when they needed to, but none were bigger then David Tyree's miraculous catch ...Giants, Patriots look like best bets for championship SundayWinnipeg Free PressBrady: 'Best Team We...  

The Boston GlobeRanking the five best starting rotationsESPN (blog)By David Schoenfield US Presswire Cliff Lee, CC Sabathia and Ian Kennedy headline three of baseball's best rotations. Now that Yu Darvish has signed with the Texas Rangers for enough money to buy an oil well, let's rank the top five rotations. ...Getting to know Yu: Rangers spent 2 years-plus scouting Japan's top pitcher ...Washington PostHurling Darvish sets off Rangers...