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The only 7 investments you need
The Worst Way to Invest in Today's Market
With the market still down about 25% over the past year, there should be plenty of cheap stocks out there today. Right? NO! It depends.
NuStar Energy ends year on a high note
NuStar Energy LP (NS)
Two Banks That Don't Need TARP Funds
JP Morgan (JPM), Wells Fargo (WFC)
What to ask your next mortgage broker?
To survive the shakeout in their industry, mortgage brokers will have to do business more transparently. A number of bills before Congress would require them to disclose fees and take on a fiduciary responsibility - that is, represent their client's best interest.
Supply and Demand
The supply of stock is mushrooming -- a bearish sign
The rise and fall of America's banks
Pen-and-paper tellers to a global catastrophe: Tracing the rise and fall of US banks
These days, you can roll up to an ATM at the grocery, the pharmacy, the gas station, the hardware store, the office, even the ballpark. You can check your Bank of America balance on your iPhone. You can text Chase, and Chase will text you back.
That's banking today: It has grown from an almost quaint relationship between teller and customer into a massive, dizzyingly interconnected network that touches almost every adult in this country.
And right now, the federal government -- working without a road map, and without a net -- is putting together a plan to keep U.S. banks from collapsing.
Not just to get the banks lending again. To keep them alive.
The government is expected to announce Monday a plan that analysts expect will include lifting soured mortgage assets off selected banks' books, possibly along with guarantees against other losses and maybe more direct injections of cash.
Financial industry experts say it is a matter of choosing the best of several options, none of them very palatable.
And no one knows for sure what will work because nothing like this has happened in living memory.
Getting it wrong could trigger a replay of what happened after Lehman Brothers collapsed last fall -- the stock market in free fall, seizure of the credit markets, ripples of layoffs. Perhaps even a run on other banks -- so many customers rushing to pull out their cash that it would make the bank run in