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Media’s Bright Spots

The big winner ten years from now will be a company that is tiny today or hasn't even been born yet.

2009 Best List: Financial Resources & Advice

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2009 Best List: Investing

Protect your portfolio, your pocketbook and your conscience.

Investments That Let You Sleep Tight

We identify nine low-risk stock and bond funds, plus three of the market’s steadiest stocks.

How Contrarians Win

You must have the patience and conviction to stick with what is, by definition, an unpopular bet.

Bond With Your Bonds

Even after the magnificent run-up in bond values, investors will stay loyal to bonds and bond funds.

5 Tech Giants to Buy Now

These reliable companies will benefit as businesses upgrade to become more efficient.

Don’t Trust the Crowd

The herd, it seems, alters our perception of reality.

Listen to Your Portfolio

Tune out market prognosticators and let your asset allocation help guide your investing decisions, says Liz Ann Sonders, Charles Schwab's chief investment strategist.

Why You Should Hang on to Your Bonds

Now is not the time to cash in on the rally in investment-grade corporate debt.

7 Ways to Protect Your Stock-Market Gains

From increasing your cash holdings to buying options, we show you how to guard against a correction -- or worse.

Learn from the World's Great Investors

Six luminaries share their outlooks and investment strategies.

7 More Ways Your Money Will Never Be the Same

A lot has changed since the recession, including the roles stocks and bonds play in investors' portfolios.

Reforming the Credit Rating Agencies

Unwinding the credit agencies' conflicts of interest means undoing decades-old habits

A Safer Way to Invest in Emerging Markets

Bond funds offer a relatively low-risk way to invest in fast-growing developing nations. They’ll also profit from a falling dollar.

Loomis Sayles Bond Is Back

After a painful year of losses, this fund’s bet on corporate bonds has paid off. Now management is growing cautious.

5 Blue Chips to Hold if the Rally Fizzles

Shares of these solid companies should hold up well even if the market's gains don't.

7 Lessons From the Bull Market

What we learn from the recovery could help the next time we're in a bear market.

6 Lessons From the Bear

We learned the hard way that few companies' earnings are immune to a terrible economy.

Wall Street Is Right

Investors know that previous recessions have never held down the U.S. economy for long.

Stocks That Grow in Any Climate

These seven companies flourished in hard times and will thrive as things get better.

My New Take on Bonds

I recommend that investors hold less in stocks and more in cash and bonds than in the past.

Beyond Bond Ratings

There's much more to the rating of a corporate- or municipal-bond issuer than a mere letter grade.

Online Brokers Offer IPO Access

Some investors now can buy stock in newly minted public companies before it starts trading -- but that doesn't mean they should.

The Bond Kings Spice up Their Menu

Pimco is getting ready to make a big move into stocks.

Has the Rally Gotten Ahead of Itself?

We asked five leading value managers. Three say yes. Two say stocks are fairly valued.

5 Stable Tech Stocks You Should Love

These big, reliable technology companies will be top beneficiaries as businesses worldwide retool to cope with the tough economy.

Stocks Back from the Dead

Shares of these ten companies have risen from the grave this year but not all are worth buying.

5 Big Risks to Your Portfolio Now

Despite the market's rebound and the recession's likely end, dangers still lurk for stocks.

Want to Buy Foreign Bonds Directly? Good Luck

The yields on debt issued by governments overseas trump what you can get from U.S. debt. But you need to be a millionaire to tap that market.

Stocks That Pay Rising Dividends

We pick seven companies that regularly boost their payouts.

Today's Best Values

A company that pays out a lot of cash in proportion to its price is a good buy.

7 Ways Your Money Will Never Be the Same

Brace yourself for more-volatile markets, tighter credit and a revamped retirement system.

Municipal Bonds Under the Gun

With states strapped for cash, the tax-exempt bond market is feeling stress -- which means investors can find some good deals.

An Investor's Manifesto

Follow Knight Kiplinger's basic principles of investing, and prosper.

7 Lessons From the Meltdown

The financial crisis can make you a better investor -- really.

Last Retailer Standing Wins

The current shakeout will boost the fortunes of chains that survive.

Eight Keys to Financial Security

Pay yourself first. Protect your loved ones. Borrow sparingly. And don't go for the home run.

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