Saturday, May 13, 2017

Are Roth or Traditional Contributions Better? and other top stories.

  • Are Roth or Traditional Contributions Better?

    Independent. Insightful. Trusted. Morningstar provides stock market analysis; equity, mutual fund, and ETF research, ratings, and picks; portfolio tools; and option, hedge fund, IRA, 401k, and 529 plan research. Our reliable data and analysis can help both experienced enthusiasts and newcomers. © Copyright 2017 Morningstar, Inc. All rights reserved. Please read our Terms of Useand Privacy Policy.Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Morningstar Index (Market Barometer) quot..
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  • Gadget mountain rising in Asia threatens health, environment

    Gadget mountain rising in Asia threatens health, environment
    In this Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, photo, a worker arranges used electronic equipment at a repair shop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The waste from discarded electronic gadgets and appliances has increased by two-thirds in East Asia over five years, posing a ...
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  • Moody's to pay $864M to settle claims it inflated ratings

    Moody's to pay $864M to settle claims it inflated ratings
    Moody's Corp. has agreed to pay nearly $864 million to settle federal and state claims it gave inflated ratings to risky mortgage investments in the years leading up to the financial crisis.The deal announced Friday was struck among the New York-based rating agency, the Justice Department and the attorneys general for 21 states and the District of Columbia.It calls for $437.5 million to go to the Justice Department and $426.3 million to be divided among the states and the District of Columbia.M..
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  • What the Bundesbank Can Teach the ECB About Winning Public Respect

    What the Bundesbank Can Teach the ECB About Winning Public Respect
    As the Bundesbank turns 60 this year, it might have a message for the teenage European Central Bank: we’ve been there before.While the two Frankfurt-based institutions haven’t always seen eye-to-eye, the ties between them run deep. The ECB was deliberately infused with the spirit, and some of the staff, of the German central bank when it was created 19 years ago. Moreover, many of the challenges the ECB faces are reminiscent of episodes in German monetary history -- a point often overlooked as ..
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  • Protests derail UC Davis event with Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos, 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli

    Protests derail UC Davis event with Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos, 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli
    Milo Yiannopoulos, a conservative columnist and Internet personality, holds a news conference down the street from the Pulse nightclub in Orlando on June 15. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) A college campus event hosting Milo Yiannopoulos and Martin Shkreli, two controversial and polarizing figures who have both been banned on Twitter, was canceled because of heated protests Friday night. Yiannopoulos, editor of the right-wing website Breitbart News, and Shkreli, a former pharmaceutical executiv..
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  • U.S. Banks to Stay in Fashion as Earnings Kick Off

    U.S. Banks to Stay in Fashion as Earnings Kick Off
    NEW YORK –  U.S. bank stocks will stay in favor with investors as long as earnings reports in the coming week show an improving profit outlook while investors wait to see if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump lives up to his campaign promises. Wells Fargo & Co. , JPMorgan Chase & Co and Bank of America kicked off the earnings season on a positive note on Friday, sending the S&P 500's banking sub-sector up as much as 2.3 percent to its highest since February 2008 before paring gains. It closed tr..
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  • Counting on Social Security in Retirement? Here's Why You Need a Backup Plan

    Counting on Social Security in Retirement? Here's Why You Need a Backup Plan
    Millions of Americans rely on Social Security to pay their living expenses in retirement, but a frightening number of recipients count on those benefits too much. The National Academy of Social Insurance found that 65% of seniors get most of their retirement income from Social Security, and for one-quarter of recipients aged 65 and up, those monthly benefit checks are their sole source of income. IMAGE SOURCE: GETTY IMAGES. Of course, there's nothing wrong with factoring your Social Security ..
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  • Davos elites struggle for answers as Trump era dawns

    Davos elites struggle for answers as Trump era dawns
    DAVOS, Switzerland - The global economy is in better shape than it's been in years. Stock markets are booming, oil prices are on the rise again and the risks of a rapid economic slowdown in China, a major source of concern a year ago, have eased.And yet, as political leaders, CEOs and top bankers make their annual trek up the Swiss Alps to the World Economic Forum in Davos, the mood is anything but celebratory.Beneath the veneer of optimism over the economic outlook lurks acute anxiety about a..
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