Word: investors
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Here's one change that every investor in America would like this year. Typically, investment losses, when it comes to taxes, can be deducted only against investment gains. The tax you pay on regular income is not affected. And that's generally true for individuals as well as corporations, unless of course investing is your...
...Larry Langford, 60, and two others were arrested, as part of a 101-count federal indictment, on charges of bribery, conspiracy and money-laundering. All three have pleaded not guilty. Langford is accused of accepting bribes while serving as county commissioner in exchange for steering bond deals to an investor...
...solid management. With reopened funds, it's especially important to make sure the people making the investment decisions are the same ones who created the great track record that made the fund so admired in the first place. The Sequoia Fund, for example, was long run by the legendary investor Bill Ruane, but he died...
...subprime debacle, we're already 16 months into this mess; we're at least four months into what could be the most serious and worrisome phase of the downturn. So the clock is ticking. Yes, there will be more bankruptcies and bailouts and job cuts. Yet no less an investor than Warren Buffett is making stock investments now, planning to be there for the long haul. The stock market is closely tied to the economy, even though the two often run in very different directions. The market is always looking ahead six to nine months and is a gauge...
...mounting concerns about deflation is this: the global financial system is going through a vicious process of deleveraging. Financial institutions are reducing debt and raising capital, either directly from governments or from private-sector sources. By desperately trying to rebuild their battered balance sheets and regain some semblance of investor confidence, banks and investment banks are not doing much lending. Indeed, the definition of deleveraging is reducing debt relative to assets. Assets, for banks, are loans. And these days pretty much everyone is deleveraging...