• Despite Concern, Banks Give Student Loans the Old College Try

    WSJ.com

    Even as the growth of student debt stirs debate on everything from whether the government should move to ease borrowers' burden to the ability to discharge obligations through bankruptcy, some banks are jockeying for position to lend to ...

  • 7 Ways to Cut Moving Costs; Deal of the Day: Some 70% of home moves happen in the summer, which makes it an expensive time to relocate.

    SmartMoney.com

    Peak moving season kicks off after Memorial Day, when it's easier to get a tan than a van. But while demand and prices rise with the temperature, there are still ways to get a good deal.

  • Crystal Ball; What's ahead for Facebook's share price?

    WSJ.com

    Send your prediction to crystalball@wsj.com by midnight EDT Sunday, with your full name, city, state and phone number. The first reader who gets it right will be named in next Saturday's paper.

  • Plan for Parents' Future

    WSJ.com

    One mistake elder-law attorney Gregory S. French sees people make time and time again: waiting until they're nearly retired themselves to get involved in their parents' plans for old age.

  • A Proxy for the Fund Industry

    Barrons.com

    Fund Scope | Scoreboard Are the shareholders getting restless? It certainly seems that way. Proxy season isn't over, and already fund firms and other institutional shareholders have voted against Citigroup (ticker: C) CEO Vikram Pandit's $15 ...

  • Beware 'Leveraged' ETFs

    WSJ.com

    Despite years of warnings about the dangers of "leveraged" exchange-traded mutual funds, many small investors—and, apparently, some investment professionals—may still not be getting the message.

  • College Graduates, Expect a Lengthy Job Hunt

    WSJ.com

    Graduating college students face a mixed job market at best this year, and most will leave school without an offer in hand, despite an uptick in hiring by on-campus recruiters.

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    Where Are They Now? Henry Blodget: After the Fall, a Second Act Online

    WSJ.com

    Henry Blodget—the former Wall Street analyst infamously banned from the securities industry in 2003—has taken his writing talents from analyst reports to the blogosphere.

  • Promotional Video: Making a Blockbuster on a Budget

    WSJ.com

    In the summer of 2008, friends Rich Aberman and Bill Clerico came up with an idea for an online payment-processing business. But the duo couldn't afford to build the technology platform that they envisioned.

  • Deposit a Million Bucks, Get a Mercedes

    WSJ.com

    Some banks are fighting for depositors in novel ways. One is even offering a Mercedes-Benz to some new customers. This month, C1 Bank, a Florida community bank with assets of $827 million, said it would give a 2012 Mercedes roadster to ...

  • Trust in the Lord…But Check Out the Church

    WSJ.com

    Heaven help us. Jim Bakker, the disgraced 1980s televangelist whose "PTL Club" television empire was laid asunder by dual sex and money scandals, is out of prison and renouncing the prosperity gospel he once preached.

  • CORRECTION

    WSJ.com

    The picture "Chicken Pox Orgy" was created by Ralph Pugay. In some editions of the May 3 Leisure & Arts story "Our Next Capital: Portland?" the artist was misidentified as Robert Dugay.

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    Regulators Seek Plan B on Money Funds

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    WASHINGTON—Federal regulators are increasingly worried that the Securities and Exchange Commission could fail to complete more-stringent rules on money-market mutual funds, forcing officials to confront how else to rein in the $2.6 trillion ...

  • When Dad Opts Out of the 'Family' Vacation

    WSJ.com

    As I write these words I am on vacation in Los Angeles with my four daughters. Their father is home in New York City where—as of last report—he had gone all week without having to do a single load of laundry. That's a real holiday for him ...

  • Sizing Up Facebook

    WSJ.com

    As social-networking giant Facebook prepares to sell stock to the public for the first time, money managers are mobbing investor roadshows and deluging the deal's underwriters with requests for as many shares as they can get their hands on.

  • What Would Giannini Think of Bank of America Today?

    WSJ.com

    Amadeo "A.P."' Giannini, the story goes, learned early about how money can make or break people's lives. When he was a child, a man shot his Italian immigrant father to death because the elder Giannini owed the assailant a dollar.

  • State Governments Eye 'Inactive' Broker Accounts

    WSJ.com

    Attention buy-and-hold investors: A recent flare-up over escheatment, the age-old right of a government to claim abandoned or unclaimed property, has highlighted the importance of keeping in contact about your accounts.

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    U.S. to Take Over Dewey Pensions

    WSJ.com

    Regulators are moving to take over pension plans at New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, saying the plans are underfunded and at risk as the ailing firm tries to liquidate its assets.

  • Gupta Team Fires Back on Wiretaps

    WSJ.com

    Lawyers for former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director Rajat Gupta, who is facing a criminal trial on insider trading charges, urged the court late Friday evening to bar from evidence three wiretapped conversations that federal prosecutors ...

  • How to Amend Your Tax Return

    WSJ.com

    If you just discovered a mistake on that tax return you filed earlier this year, relax. You aren't alone. Thanks to our increasingly complex tax laws, it's easy to make costly mistakes on our returns. The usual solution is to file what is ...

  • Retirement Homes for Less

    WSJ.com

    Most people wouldn't dream of buying a house or a car without negotiating the price. Yet many families don't realize they can bargain for what can be an even bigger-ticket item: a retirement residence.

  • Where to Buy Life Insurance

    WSJ.com

    A growing number of employees are buying life insurance through work, according to insurance-industry association LIMRA. But going through your employer isn't always the best policy.

  • Vacation Homes Beckon

    WSJ.com

    If you're thinking of buying a second home in the next five years, this might be your best opportunity. After being battered during the housing bust, the vacation-home market is showing signs of life. Reports of bidding wars are trickling ...

  • Adviser Alert; News for Brokers, Wealth Managers And Their Clients

    WSJ.com

    How to Ask for Referrals Referrals are a crucial way most advisers build their business. But advisers often make mistakes in trying to score introductions, some specialists in the field say.

  • Crystal Ball; What's ahead for Tyson Foods' share price?

    WSJ.com

    Send your prediction to crystalball@wsj.com by midnight EDT Sunday, with your full name, city, state and phone number. The first reader who gets it right will be named in next Saturday's paper.

  • Polishing the Dimon Principle

    WSJ.com

    Forget the "Dimon principle." Investors should follow the Feynman principle. When J.P. Morgan Chase's chief executive, James Dimon, disclosed a $2 billion trading loss during a hastily organized conference call on Thursday, he said: "This ...

  • Picking a Place to Retire

    WSJ.com

    Where to retire? It's an age-old question that for many people centers on two big variables: housing costs and taxes. They should add a third criterion to their list: the percentage of people collecting pensions.

  • It's Raining Credit—Again

    WSJ.com

    Can you have too much of a good thing? When it comes to credit cards, maybe not. Consumers with good credit are seeing an influx of generous rewards offers, even as overall card offers dropped 30% in the first quarter of 2012 as issuers took ...

  • This Week

    WSJ.com

    Good Times, Bad Times After trading at its highest level in four years on Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.4% this week to 13038 after weaker than expected economic reports called into question the strength of the U.S. ...

  • How Facebook's Elite Skirt Estate Tax

    WSJ.com

    Investors are focusing on Facebook's offering price as the company prepares to go public as soon as next week. Tax specialists are paying attention to something else: how half a dozen of the firm's luminaries, including founder Mark ...

 

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