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Fred Harteis News Articles - Can things get any worse for fund investors? Apparently so. You already know what a terrible year 2008 was for your stock funds. Through Nov. 21, domestic equity funds fell 48% on average, while their foreign counterparts did even worse - dropping 54%. But it's not just that the average fund lost around half its value. Every single stock fund was down for the year, according to Morningstar.

But wait, there's even more: By the end of the year, some not-so-lucky investors will have received taxable gains from their money-losing funds. Yes, that sounds ... more »

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Monday, December 29

Fred Harteis News Articles - Top Things Vanishing From America

by maba on Mon 29 Dec 2008 03:51 PM EST

Fred Harteis News Articles - The landscape of America is constantly changing. As culture shifts and new technologies and products are introduced, this is to be expected. But some things are impacted more than others and the once-ubiquitous can even become extinct.

Yellow Pages

It's a pivotal time for the global Yellow Pages industry. Much like newspapers, print Yellow Pages will continue to bleed dollars to their various digital counterparts, from Internet Yellow Pages (IYPs), to local search engines and combination search/listing services like ReachLocal and Yodle. Factors like an acceleration of the print "fade rate" and the looming ...   more »

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Wednesday, December 24

Fred Harteis News Articles - Post-layoff employment options

by maba on Wed 24 Dec 2008 01:00 PM EST

Fred Harteis News Articles - -- It's bad enough to be laid off, but to lose your job in the midst of one of the steepest economic downturns of recent memory - that's even more difficult.

In fact, the amount of time the average worker has been out of work is expanding from eight weeks to ten weeks, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and it could get worse. How do you cope? Here are some suggestions:

1. Rethink tapping your 401(k)

You can take out your retirement money - federal law allows tapping your 401(k) for ...   more »

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Friday, December 19

Fred Harteis News Articles - Top 5 Best Drug Store Buys

by maba on Fri 19 Dec 2008 02:29 PM EST

Fred Harteis News Articles - THE NEXT TIME you head to the drugstore to pick up a prescription, bring your shopping list. From big chains to mom-and-pop pharmacies, drugstores now offer the convenience of one-stop shopping with plenty of great deals thrown in.

1. Milk

Supermarkets are typically not the best place to buy this fridge staple -- there are rarely coupons or in-store sales on milk. Drugstores, on the other hand, regularly price it to entice consumers who are en route to the checkout counter, says Mary Hunt, founder of money management site DebtProofLiving.com. Walgreens in San Francisco, ...   more »

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Thursday, December 18

Fred Harteis Health News - Obesity risk might turn teens off smoking

by maba on Thu 18 Dec 2008 04:03 PM EST

Fred Harteis Health News - Telling teenage would-be smokers that lighting up may make them fat down the road may be a more effective deterrent than harping on the risks of heart disease and cancer from smoking, hints research published in the latest issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

In a study, Finnish researchers found that smoking during adolescence strongly predicted the development of abdominal obesity in adulthood, among both men and women.

In particular, they found that girls who smoked at least 10 cigarettes daily during adolescence had a 3.4-centimeter larger waistline as young adults, ...   more »

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