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...Hold More Cash This crazy ride may not be over. So the more cash you have in short-term securities like bank CDs, interest-bearing checking accounts, money-market mutual funds and Treasury bills, the better shape you'll be in to ride out a market slump and invest again when the economy stabilizes. Typically, a decent cash cushion is three to six months' worth of living expenses if you are working and 12 months' worth or more if you are retired. Double the cushion if you can. "Believe me," says William Jordan, president of the Sentinel Group, financial planners...
...Diversify Internationally You should always have your savings spread among large, medium and small stocks, bonds and some cash in safe short-term securities. It's more important now than ever before to include in this mix some foreign stocks and bonds. If this crisis deepens, the costs could prove so staggering to the U.S. government that the dollar might plunge or interest rates might rise. Foreign holdings won't be immune to such fallout. But they will at least offer a buffer. "Give up the ability to hit a home run to make sure you don't strike...
...experienced fund managers wince. But Acumen, it seems, weathered the storm with a smile on their face. “We had a very, very good day,” said Vikram R. Modi ’09, co-president of the group. Modi said that the group held short positions on several baskets of securities that contained industries affected by the market plunge on Monday. This instance of short selling—a strategy that allows traders to profit from the decline in the price of a stock—is not covered under a recent...
...stand up and explain the situation. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 778 points on the news. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson warned Monday afternoon that car loans and student loans were likely to tighten. Other economists have warned of the possibility of widespread corporate failures and unemployment, if the short-term credit markets freeze up. Bank failures, or mergers, are likely to continue. The taxpayer costs of federal insurance on deposits could increase...
...parties have different accounts of what led up to the vote. Two Republican recollections of the same conversation had Blunt informing Hoyer that they were short - Blunt counted 60-some GOP votes and was hopeful they could get as many as 75 - and that Democrats would have to make up the rest. Four Democratic sources dispute this version, insisting that they were always promised between 80-90 GOP votes - still short of the 100 votes that would make up a majority of House Republicans, but enough to qualify as a bipartisan victory...