Date: Sat, 1. November 2008 13:33:33

AP - Iraq has earmarked some $15 billion — nearly 25 percent of its 2009 draft budget — to help rebuild the country's crumbling infrastructure, energy and oil facilities, the finance minister said Saturday.

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

Home price decline is showing no sign of deceleration these days. According to the latest monthly release of the S&P/Casae-Schiller Home Price Indices, the 20 cities in the survey is showing an average price reversal of 6.1% compared to a year ago. ?No matter how you look at these data, it is obvious that the current state of the single-family housing market remains grim,? says Robert J. Shiller, Chief Economist at MacroMarkets LLC. ?Not only did the 10-City Composite post a record low in its annual growth rate, but 11 of the 20 metro areas did the same. If you look at the monthly figures, every MSA went down in both October and September. Eleven of the 20 MSAs, in addition to the two composites, recorded their single largest monthly decline on record in October. For both the 10-City and 20-City composites this was a decline of 1.4% over September?. 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: Fri, 18. July 2008 22:43:33

Freddie Mac CEO Richard Syron pocketed nearly $19.8 million in compensation last year, according to the SEC, even as the troubled mortgage company's stock lost half its value.

Date: Fri, 13. June 2008 10:39:26

Paulson, Nukaga discuss currency, economy, inflation in bilateral ...Forbes - 4 hours agoOSAKA, Japan (Thomson Financial) - US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga today discussed foreign exchange issues, the global economy and inflation in a bilateral meeting in Japan, just one day before the G-8 ...G8 finance chiefs wrestle with oil, food crises AFPUS, Japan together on oil, food prices The Associated PressWorld Bank Group - Bloomberg - KGAN - Monsters and Critics.comall 578 news articles

Date: Sat, 1. November 2008 13:33:33

AP - Iraq has earmarked some $15 billion — nearly 25 percent of its 2009 draft budget — to help rebuild the country's crumbling infrastructure, energy and oil facilities, the finance minister said Saturday.

Date: Sat, 1. November 2008 13:33:33

AP - Iraq has earmarked some $15 billion — nearly 25 percent of its 2009 draft budget — to help rebuild the country's crumbling infrastructure, energy and oil facilities, the finance minister said Saturday.

Date: Sat, 17. May 2008 15:04:47

As we are approaching the year end, many personal finance journalists are busy throwing out last minute tax advices. One of the most discussed year-end tax saving strategy is to prepay your January's mortgage bill in late December so one may deduct 13 months' interest on mortgage payments instead of 12 months'. Is this really worth your time? Let's run a quick calculation: If your January 2008 mortgage bill is $500 in principal and $2,000 in mortgage interest, by prepaying the January 1, 2008 bill on December 20, 2007, you only pay the opportunity cost of 10 days' worth of interest on the $2,500, yet you can claim $2,000 more in deductions in the 2007 tax return, and that's worth $500 if you are in the 25% tax bracket. 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: Thu, 5. June 2008 02:39:17

AP - A prominent fundraiser for Sen. Barack Obama and Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted of fraud, money laundering and bribery Wednesday after a trial that exposed a corrupt culture of payoffs and campaign finance abuses plaguing Illinois politics.

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

SUMMARY $54,134 is a big amount to lose in a single month, and it doesn't make life any easier when it comes immediately after another $60,000-down month. Most of the damage is done by the untimely Microsoft bid for Yahoo! The bid, which was made public in the first day of February, immediately pulled MSFT back to the 20s, almost halved the value of my employee stock option account. On my self-managed portfolio side, my heavy exposure to financial stocks penalized my performance -- it was a complete reversal of fortune compared to January, when these bank stocks lift the TRANSACTIONS Flying to safety is probably the best summary of my several trades for the month. I downsized my equity holdings by closing my positions in FSTMX and KBE. With the reopening of Dodge & Cox's domestic equity stock, I started an initial position on DODGX before the famous fund gets closed again. 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: Wed, 30. July 2008 13:25:27

SifyCan Cuil woo you from Google?MSNBC - 1 hour agoBy Helen AS Popkin I?m not saying our relationship is perfect ? Google and me, we have our problems. For example, I?m not keen on Google?s lack of transparency.Former Googleers unveil new search engine Cuil ReutersCuil 'crunches' Gmail, Shanghai Entrepreneur PC WorldInformationWeek - PC Magazine - CRN - TechCrunchall 1,141 news articles