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Want to find some war blogs on your own? There is no central index, but one site usually leads to others. Cyberjournalist.net has loads of links to reports from writers embedded with the troops (at cyber journalist.net/features/iraqcoverage.html) And at daypop.com a blog-specific search engine, a search on Iraq turns up more than 2,600 results...
What should you do? Don't make any huge bets--do keep some cash on hand--but lighten up on bonds in favor of stocks. If you don't want to research individual stocks, invest in a low-cost, broad-based mutual fund like Vanguard Total Stock Market Index. For a more targeted approach, consider...
...market surges of all time, kicked off on Aug. 9, 1995, when the initial public offering (IPO) of stock in the Internet-browser maker Netscape rocketed from an expected initial price of $12 to an opening trade of $71. Hundreds of IPOs later, on March 10, 2000, the NASDAQ index hit the all-time high of 5132.52, from which it would fall 62% in just two years...
...whose shares trade on the Paris stock exchange, 57% were family controlled in 1998 (the latest year for which figures are available), up from 48% five years earlier, according to a study by the Insead business school. By comparison, about 40% of the firms in the S&P 500 index in the U.S. are family controlled...
Moreover, family firms in France have performed quite well for shareholders. An index of such companies compiled by a Paris brokerage, Oddo & Cie, continuously outperformed the Paris market in the 10 years from 1991 to 2001, with the stock of family firms rising by 446%, compared to 233% for the stock of 250 of France's largest companies. Family businesses tend to be more profitable than others over the longer term, in part because they aren't as fixated on short-term performance and are better able to weather downturns...