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Blog Archives
The Investing Value blog archives is a categorized selection of all the
news archives of the investment weblog. Newest news posts are listed at
the top of each category.
Finance
News - Includes recent news posts relating to the economy, important
world financial decisions, interest rate changes, and banking news.
Financial news subcategories include - Tax
News
- Good
Economic Growth but Slowing Wages - The US economy has been showing
good growth over the last few years but how does today's wages compare
to those a few years back and is this growth helping out the average
worker?.
- Wealth:
Grow It, Protect It, Spend It and Share It - A book recently published
by Knowledge@Wharton and written by Stuart E. Lucas is being featured
over Wharton. He is a financial advisor and heir to the Carnation fortune
(evaporated milk and non-dairy creamers).
- Fake
Banking Websites - Bankrate.com recently published an article about
fake websites and how to avoid them. Anyone that has spent any amount
of time online will have usually come across the fake bank websites
or at least received their scam emails.
- Google
Finance Struggle - With the recent release of Google Finance, there
have been reports that it has been struggling to compete with already
established finance portals like Yahoo Finance. Although users have
praised the simple interface of Google Finance, they have not yet offered
compelling enough financial tools or resources to make users change
to Google.
- Stock
Market and Good Finance News - In an attempt to explain why the
stockmarket often goes down when good economic news is released, a Motley
Fool writer points to Ben Bernanke and interest rates. The article is
worth a read for those interested in a simple explanation of the ups
and downs of the seemingly irrational financial markets..
- Australia
Racks Up Half a Trillion in Dept - Austalia's private sector (mostly
banks) has increased it's foreign dept by another 70 billion since last
year taking Australia's total dept to over $500 billion.
- Short
Term Savings - We all read about long term savings goals and making
investments for the future and for retirement but have you thought about
keeping a short term stash of money for those expected or unexpected
rainy days.
- Avoiding
Hidden Bank fees - In the last 10 years bank fees have more than
doubled and in the last 4 or 5 years they have sky rocketed again to
all time highs pushing bank profits through the roof.
- Tax
Cuts & Petrol Prices in Australia - Australia's petrol prices
are climbing to AU$1.50 and rising with motorists feeling the added
cost each week.
- Ben
Bernanke Raises Interest Rates - The new Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke
has raised the federal funds interest rates to 4.75%. Bernanke is concerned
about inflation flaring and has hinted at further rate increases in
the future.
- Google
Finance - A new finance portal has just been released by the search
engine company, Google. Google Finance is still in beta, but will offer
similar services and information as Yahoo Finance.
- Consumer
Borrowing Slows - According to the federal reserve, consumer borrowing
slowed for the first time in 13 years taking debt to an annual level
of $2.161 trillion, down from an all-time high of $2.164 trillion.
- Saving
for Retirement - Today people are faced with working jobs that no
longer come with a retirement plan, unlike years gone by where most
companies included a 401k plan of some description for their employee's.
- Housing
slump in America - After news of homebuilder Toll Brothers orders
slumping by 21%, many are claiming that the bubble is about to burst
within the housing market as prices drop.
- Rupert
Murdoch's new Business Channel - News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch
is planning to create some competition for the business news channel
CNBC this year. Murdoch has said that they are in intense discussions
and should have a new business channel in operation before the end of
the year.
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