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The central bank of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has said it will provide banks with extra liquidity. The news comes days after the state-owned Dubai World said it would ask for an extension on repaying its debts, sending world stock markets tumbling. The move appeared designed to ...Read More

By Leah Schnurr NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dubai, jobs data, Black Friday results and a chance for Congress to throw fireballs at Fed chief Ben Bernanke: The U.S. stock market’s path to glory is fraught with peril next week. If Dubai’s debt woes intensify and prompt a retreat ...Read More

By DAISY MAXEY (See Corrections & Amplifications below) Investors in supposedly super safe target-date mutual funds took it on the chin like pretty much everybody else as the market collapsed. So why would anyone think about looking to these funds now? While the bear-market performance of many target-date ...Read More

By Ilaina Jonas NEW YORK (Reuters) - A fall of more than 10 percent in the average apartment price in Manhattan in the third quarter from a year earlier attracted buyers who pushed up the number of sales by over 45 percent in just one quarter, industry reports ...Read More

By BRETT ARENDS Much of the financial news this month has revolved around the one-year anniversary of the Panic of 2008 — the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the takeover of Merrill Lynch, the government’s bailout of Wall Street. But there’s another anniversary for investors. It is 10 years ...Read More

Gold bullion just crossed $1,000 an ounce. But what’s it really worth? Bud Conrad, chief economist at Casey Research and a leading gold bug, says it’s worth far more. Based on long-term analyses of macroeconomic trends such as the money supply, he says, “a lot of ratios… get ...Read More

By Emma Farge LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices fell below $71 a barrel Wednesday, after rising more than $3 the previous day, as OPEC ministers were expected to maintain official output unchanged at their meeting in Vienna. U.S. crude for October delivery was down 11 cents at $70.99 ...Read More

If you don’t already have a significant chunk of your net worth invested in rental property, it’s time to think about buying stock in real estate companies. But in our first Real Estate Stock Talk, Alexander Goldfarb, a seasoned stock analyst, and Peter Slatin, a veteran journalist and ...Read More

By Leah Schnurr NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street’s mettle will be tested this week as traders return from summer vacations to resurfacing signs of weakness after a six-month rally for stocks. The specter of September may also make investors more inclined to sell. Markets closed the first ...Read More

There are bears. There are bulls. And there are sitting bulls. These are the legions of 401(k) investors who don’t merely buy and hold; they buy, hold and sit stock-still. Even as the U.S. stock market fell 55% between October 2007 and March 2009, these people barely budged. ...Read More