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By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG Amid all the junk mail pouring into your house in recent months, you might have noticed a solicitation or two for a “professional card,” otherwise known as a small-business or corporate credit card. If so, watch out. While J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.’s Ink from ...Read More

By GREGORY ZUCKERMAN Amid growing worries about deflation, or a sustained period of falling prices, some analysts recommend that investors buy bonds, which can do better in that kind of dangerous environment.But interest rates on all kinds of bonds are at such skimpy levels that fixed income may ...Read More

By JEFF D. OPDYKE “It isn’t fair.”I’d be willing to bet that somewhere, some kid is uttering those words at this very moment. And most likely the outburst was triggered by sibling rivalry.Amy and I got a taste of it (hardly our first) a while back when we ...Read More

By JANE J. KIM View Full Image A similar hedging approach involves buying protective puts on stocks you already own in your portfolio. Say you own shares of International Business Machines Corp., which are trading at about $127. For about $7.60 you could buy a put that allows ...Read More

In this year of financial overhaul, consumers are getting relief from all kinds of potentially costly practices, from unexpected overdraft charges and gift-card expiration dates to money-market mutual-fund risks. But the new regulations, which include the Credit Card Act and new rules from the Federal Reserve and the ...Read More

By JAIME LEVY PESSIN When a financial adviser changes firms, the decision of whether to follow can be a difficult one. Journal Report Read the complete Quarterly Investing in Funds report . WSJ.com Podcast Your financial adviser just took a job with another firm, the question now is ...Read More

When most people hear the word “budget,” they groan about all the numbers and spreadsheets involved in setting financial goals. Instead they procrastinate and continue spending without any specific savings goals. Case in point: I recently postponed a meeting with my financial planner because I didn’t have the ...Read More

Where have all the companies gone?The number of U.S. firms with publicly traded stock has dropped by half in the past decade. Ten years ago, around 9,100 companies filed annual proxy statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Last year, roughly 6,450 did; so far in 2010, only ...Read More

From February through May, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained more than 1000 points in an almost uninterrupted daily march upward. Then came the “flash crash” of May 6 and day after day of losses through May. Now, in mid-June, the market has been up six of the ...Read More

By ROBIN SIDEL And DAN FITZPATRICK Bank of America Corp. and other banks are preparing new fees on basic banking services as they try to replace revenue lost to regulatory rules, in a push that is expected to spell an end to free checking accounts for many Americans. ...Read More