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| Robert Powell: 5 IRA timing rules that can derail your retirement Thu, 17 May 2012 00:01:48 -0500 When it comes to IRAs, timing is everything. Robert Powell looks at five rules that could derail your retirement-savings plans.
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| Foreclosure activity drops in April Thu, 17 May 2012 00:01:54 -0500 The number of foreclosure filings in April fell to the lowest monthly total since July 2007, according to RealtyTrac’s most recent report, released on Thursday.
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| ETF Investing: Why ETFs can’t ‘like’ Facebook IPO Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:50 -0500 If you’re not getting a chance to buy Facebook Inc. shares before Friday’s IPO, you’re not alone. Some specialized exchange-traded funds will be on the sidelines along with most everyone else -- at least for a while.
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| Chuck Jaffe: Don’t bank on this financial sector ETF Thu, 17 May 2012 00:01:07 -0500 ETFs covering the financial sector are not created equal, writes Chuck Jaffe. Pop the hood on the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Financial Services Index and you can see the problem, he says.
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| Personal Finance Daily: On the hunt for high yield, don’t get burned Wed, 16 May 2012 14:46:32 -0500 Investors are seeking higher yields, and it may be leading them down dangerous paths. Read Robert Powell’s story on master limited partnerships, or MLPs; plus, find out why J.P. Morgan’s $2 billion loss could be a boon to the bank, and get the latest news on mortgages and foreclosures, all in Personal Finance Daily.
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| J.P. Morgan may turn loss into gain Wed, 16 May 2012 13:19:16 -0500 Whatever J.P. Morgan loses on its soured trade, it also stands to save plenty by carrying out share repurchases at a lower price, writes SmartMoney’s Jack Hough.
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| Mortgage delinquencies, foreclosures trend lower Wed, 16 May 2012 10:33:55 -0500 Some good news on the home-loan front: First-quarter data on delinquencies show the percentage of mortgages in the foreclosure process or at least one payment past due stands at the lowest combined rate since 2008.
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| Jeanette Pavini's Buyer Beware: The insurance policies you don’t need Wed, 16 May 2012 00:26:59 -0500 We buy insurance to protect ourselves from liabilities or loss that are far too expensive for us to cover on our own. But some policies aren’t worth their cost. In this second in a two-part series, Jeanette Pavini looks at insurance policies you do and don’t need.
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| Robert Powell's Your Portfolio: Master limited partnerships: High yield, big risks Wed, 16 May 2012 00:01:17 -0500 With 10-year Treasurys paying less than 2% and the average one-year certificate of deposit yielding next to nothing, it’s no surprise investors are hunting for higher yields. But investing in master limited partnerships and business development companies could be a mistake, writes Robert Powell.
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| Personal Finance Daily: Got ETFs? Don’t get burned Tue, 15 May 2012 15:59:47 -0500 Check out our special report detailing tips, trends and risks related to exchange-traded funds, including a story on how ETFs’ low cost and ease of trading make it easy for investors to get hurt, all in Personal Finance Daily.
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| Word of the day |
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.