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How the Triborough Bridge led me to an investing epiphany

Investment inspiration can come from unexpected sources - like the Triborough Bridge into Manhattan, which I often crossed when I was a novice financial analyst more than 20 years ago.Every driver who wanted to use the bridge (now officially called the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge), had to pay the toll and hand over $3.50 to the attendant in the booth. No pay, no ...
Bucks Blog Can the Rich and Powerful Redefine Life for All of Us

Shortcuts column on a movement to redefine what a successful life means drew some enthusiastic responses from readers, and a few that were angry. The column focused largely on a conference called "The Third Metric," hosted by Arianna Huffington and Mika Brzezinski this month, that was titled "Redefining Success Beyond Wealth & Power." It's clear that many people ...
The missing bond funds in your 401

There is a solution -- but also a catch. Many 401(k) investors don't have all the tools within their plan to implement a perfect portfolio. The fix, in theory: First, own shorter-maturity bonds, which don't fall as far when rates rise. Then diversify. T. Rowe Price financial planner Judith Ward suggests rounding out your portfolio with high-yield bonds, where credit is a bigger risk ...
Rocky Times for Developing Markets

After a terrible 2011, developing-nations stocks roared back in 2012, with the MSCI Emerging Markets index climbing 18.6%. Many investors hoped the good times would continue, but emerging-markets stocks have been submerging in 2013. So far this year, the group has tumbled 8.3%. What ...
Business Kenya Power to hand out 3.3m energy-saving bulbs

The project -- which is expected to reduce domestic customers' power consumption by 130 megawatts during peak hours -- is also expected to be a revenue source ...

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Clearly designed and executed to fill the supernatural adolescent romance void left in the wake of the seemingly interminable Twilight series final installment(s), Beautiful Creatures offers a gender-reversed take on a very similar storyline and inserts witch ... ...

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The Proactive Fund Investor with Bill Donoghue Prepare for the boom or bust ahead

The biggest risk is losing principal before you begin withdrawals and eating away at your ability to continue to earn sufficiently high withdrawals. After a strong year, and in the prospects of significant risk, the proactive investor protects ...
Should I move my IRA to my new jobs 401

Are the fees lower in your 401(k) than in your IRA? Would you like all your retirement dollars in one pot? Do you prefer your 401(k)'s investment ...
Bucks Blog User Satisfaction With Online Brokerages Declines

an annual study of customer satisfaction with online brokerages, but satisfaction with the self-serve tools over all fell from last year. The study ...
Now payday lenders are turning to religion

Debt charities have slammed the actions of two unlicensed payday lenders which target vulnerable borrowers by falsely claiming to be affiliated with religious ...
Spotlight on Hitachi personal loans

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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Anne Bronte's gravestone corrected after 164 years

Anne Bronte, sister of Charlotte and Emily, has been given a new gravestone after 164 years to correct a mistake in the original.

Anne, who authored 'Agnes Grey' and 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,' died in Scarborough in 1849 after succumbing to tuberculosis at the age of 29.

But Anne's headstone in St Mary's Churchyard gave her age as 28.

Anne's original gravestone was refaced 3 years after her death, when Charlotte returned to discover five mistakes on it, the other errors were corrected but the age was not.

The Bronte Society installed the new plaque alongside the original that had deteriorated over the years, the BBC reported.

Society's Sally McDonald said that Anne was the quietest Bronte and can still sometimes be overlooked in favour of her sisters Charlotte and Emily.

She added that in some ways, though, she is now viewed as the most radical of the sisters, writing about tough subjects like women's need to maintain independence, and how alcoholism could tear a family apart. (ANI)