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Your spouse goes into the hospital for surgery and winds up dead. He or she was covered under your family life insurance plan. Are you entitled to collect?The right answer should be “yes,” according to a recent opinion from a Manhattan federal judge. In his ruling Judge Denny ...Read More

Investors’ interest in Littlefuse sparked on Monday after the company reported stellar fourth-quarter earnings.The Chicago-based circuit protection device maker earned $11.7 million, or 53 cents per share, compared with a loss of $9.2 million, or 42 cents per share in the fourth quarter of 2008. Sales for the ...Read More

For many investors, the market’s turbulence hasn’t just destroyed wealth. It has shattered their faith in the financial system itself. Consider Philip Eberlin, 56 years old, who runs a woodwork-restoration business in Chicago Heights, Ill. Trading hot stocks a decade ago, Mr. Eberlin got burned on picks like ...Read More

The UK should be seen in the same category of countries as Greece and Spain, who are facing severe debt problems, a leading economist has said. Ex-IMF chief economist Simon Johnson, also described the G7 group of leading economies as “fundamentally useless”. His comments to the BBC came ...Read More

By GREGORY ZUCKERMAN A year ago, investors were dealing with heavy losses from the most brutal stock-market selloffs in years. The last thing they expected was a ferocious bull market. And yet, shares soon began to soar — climbing more than 50%. Last year’s unexpected stock rebound — ...Read More

The Chinese and the Russians love to dump on the dollar. The International Monetary Fund dreams that some day its unofficial currency, the SDR, may become the world’s reserve currency. But for now, at least, the dollar is still king. According to a study by Linda Goldberg , ...Read More

By TOM HERMAN Q: I’ve held shares of Netgear for a few years in my regular, taxable account. I would like to sell enough shares to cover my annual contribution to my Roth individual retirement account, and then immediately repurchase the shares in my Roth IRA. I would ...Read More

David Wessel, The Wall Street Journal’ economics editor and author of “In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic,” recently finished “ On the Brink ,” the new book by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson , which covers much of the same time period from ...Read More

By LESLIE SCISM and LARRY LIGHT Death is inevitable, but good investment returns aren’t—especially those that rest on how long people live. The increasingly popular practice of buying rights to older people’s life insurance is risky, even downright perilous. People are living longer than actuarial tables say they ...Read More

A key committee of Euro MPs has moved to block the renewal of an agreement which allows US anti-terror officials to access Europeans’ bank data. The European Parliament’s civil liberties committee recommended that the full parliament reject the interim nine-month deal between the EU and US. MEPs said ...Read More