Date: Sun, 19. October 2008 13:50:41

AFP - World leaders lined up a series of summits looking at reforming global finance in the wake of the turmoil on the markets as South Korea became the latest country to shore up troubled banks on Sunday.

Date: Tue, 6. January 2009 15:32:37

pI wrote a couple of weeks ago about why a href="http://www.pfblog.com/archives/6304_the_value_of_essential_tax_knowledge.shtml"some basic tax knowledge/a will not only help you to maximize your tax refund after the fact, but will also serve as good guidance on how one should plan financial activities beforehand. Case on point: my exit strategy on my investment in Apollo Group, Inc. (a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=ts=APOL"APOL/a). /p pFor those of you who don't know, Apollo Group is the operating of University of Phoenix, Inc. (UPX), an accredited university with predominant online presence, and many other educational institutions. I bought 400 shares of its stock at $35.07 apiece on November 20, 2006, following strong recommendation from Morningstar equity research's recommendation. (In retrospect, I bought the stock almost at its 3-year nadir. What a perfect timing!)/p pNow the stock APOL is trading at over $75 apiece and I'm happily watching my original investment of $14,000 turned out to be another double-bagger. Apparently the stock is no longer cheap at 22 times forward P/E. In fact, in my a href="http://www.pfblog.com/archives/6300_portfolio_update_september_2007_up_375.shtml"latest monthly portfolio review/a, I have listed my target (sale) price of APOL as $65, but I still haven't sold the stock yet. Why? /p a href="http://www.pfblog.com/archives/6306_tax_conscious_stock_sale_a_case_study.shtml"READ FULL POST .../a /pp pbHot Deal:/b 5% cashback on everything from a href="http://www.cardoffers.com/manage/track/e.asp?ID=100436974" target="_blank"Citi CashReturns Mastercard/a /pp/ppppRead more news like this from a href="http://www.pfblog.com/" target="_blank"PFBlog.com, The Unique Personal Finance Blog Since 2003/a. pmap name="google_ad_map_071030183249" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/071030183249?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_071030183249" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-9477731859773028amp;channel=2382296444amp;output=pngamp;cuid=071030183249amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pfblog.com%2Farchives%2F6306_tax_conscious_stock_sale_a_case_study.shtml"//p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pfblog2?a=lTHaXz"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pfblog2?i=lTHaXz" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pfblog2?a=2Ncy2cA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pfblog2?i=2Ncy2cA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pfblog2?a=6o29fVa"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pfblog2?i=6o29fVa" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pfblog2?a=up6g47a"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pfblog2?i=up6g47a" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pfblog2?a=6DDwSzA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pfblog2?i=6DDwSzA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pfblog2?a=XLYcUpa"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pfblog2?i=XLYcUpa" border="0"/img/a /div

Date: Mon, 15. December 2008 13:02:23

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Date: Tue, 6. January 2009 15:32:16

pimg alt="stockmarket.jpg" src="http://www.pfblog.com/stockmarket.jpg" width="115" height="115" align="left" /strongSUMMARY/strong/p pThe stock market took a nosedive in November after three months of gains. At one point, the market was officially declared "in correction," defined as more than 10% off recent highs./p pObviously my finance-stock-stuffed portfolio is not spared from the chaos. It ended the month with a 3.75% loss, even slightly worse than the benchmark loss of 3.47% in the same month. On a year-to-date basis, my portfolio is still up 9.4%, compared to 8.4% gain of the benchmark./p pstrongTRANSACTIONS/strong/p pI'm quite busy in managing my positions in November. Key transactions include:/p p1) Exercised 1/3 of my vested employee stock option positions (strongMSFT/strong) at $36.60. Before this month's transaction, I haven't exercised stock option for over 7 years now. The action is prompted first by valuation concerns -- MSFT was bid up to a level that is above my calculation of intrinsic value after a blow-out Q1 release, and second by diversification purposes -- my employee stock option account was representing 17% of our net worth at the end of October and it was obviously too high.br / /p a href="http://www.pfblog.com/archives/6315_portfolio_update_november_2007_down_375.shtml"READ FULL POST .../a /pp pbHot Deal:/b 5% cashback on everything from a href="http://www.cardoffers.com/manage/track/e.asp?ID=100436974" target="_blank"Citi CashReturns Mastercard/a /pp/ppppRead more news like this from a href="http://www.pfblog.com/" target="_blank"PFBlog.com, The Unique Personal Finance Blog Since 2003/a. pmap name="google_ad_map_071202093323" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/071202093323?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_071202093323" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-9477731859773028amp;channel=2382296444amp;output=pngamp;cuid=071202093323amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pfblog.com%2Farchives%2F6315_portfolio_update_november_2007_down_375.shtml"//p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pfblog2?a=iLHM98"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pfblog2?i=iLHM98" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pfblog2?a=4fD2Z2C"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pfblog2?i=4fD2Z2C" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pfblog2?a=rkTTFcc"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pfblog2?i=rkTTFcc" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pfblog2?a=gd2gntc"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pfblog2?i=gd2gntc" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pfblog2?a=9iqmGCC"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pfblog2?i=9iqmGCC" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pfblog2?a=L6Dhw2c"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pfblog2?i=L6Dhw2c" border="0"/img/a /div

Date: Fri, 11. July 2008 15:50:00

As senior Bush administration officials reportedly weighing a plan that would see the government take over one or both of the two largest U.S. mortgage finance firms, shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac come under renewed waves of selling pressure.

Date: Wed, 13. August 2008 01:05:07

Things are going to get much costlier and trickier for consumers after Labor Day, even if oil prices keep falling, Henry Harteveldt of Forrester Research tells assistant personal-finance editor Andrea Coombes. (Aug. 12)

Date: Tue, 1. July 2008 22:00:00

CIT Group stands out among financial-sector stocks, rallying as the commercial-finance company announces the sale of its manufactured-housing portfolio and home-lending unit for a total of $1.8 billion.

Date: Fri, 16. May 2008 23:31:36

The renowned tax consulting firm CCH has released its projection of federal income tax brackets for 2008. Here are the major changes that will affect our family (when we file joint returns): Tax Brackets Joint returns. For married taxpayers filing jointly and surviving spouses, the maximum taxable income subject to the 10-percent bracket will rise from $15,600 in 2007 to $16,050 in 2008; the top of the 15-percent tax bracket will increase from $63,700 to $65,100. The bracket amounts for the remaining tax rates show similarly proportionate increases: $131,450 as the maximum for the 25-percent bracket (up $2,950 from 2007); $200,300 for the 28-percent bracket (up $4,450 from 2007); and $357,700 for the 33-percent bracket (up $8,000 from 2007). Amounts above the $357,700 level will be taxed at the 35 percent rate. READ FULL POST ... Hot Deal: 5% cashback on everything from Citi CashReturns Mastercard Read more news like this from PFBlog.com, The Unique Personal Finance Blog Since 2003.

Date: Mon, 15. December 2008 13:02:23

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Date: Mon, 29. September 2008 15:04:51

slash-sa writes "O3B Networks has been quietly preparing itself over the last 12 months for the moment last week when it announced that it was going to be offering cheap, low-latency satellite bandwidth that can cover any part of Africa by 2010. It has put in place early finance with Google, Liberty Global and HSBC. Here are more details from the entrepreneur behind the project, Greg Wyler."Read more of this story at Slashdot.