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Stock Funds Fall 11% As Slump Deepens - Boston Globe
us stock mutual funds fell 11 percent in the third quarter, matching the steepest decline in six years, as the seizure of credit markets pushed financial companies into collapse and forced the government to intervene. stock funds trailed the standard ...
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stock Mutual Funds Saw $7.16 Billion Outflow Thursday-wed - Trimtabs
new york -(dow jones)- stock mutual funds saw an outflow of $7.16 billion during the week ended wednesday, compared with an outflow of $6.33 billion during the previous week, according to trimtabs investment research estimates.
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U.s. Stock Funds Fell 11% In Third Quarter As Slump Deepened
oct. 3 (bloomberg) -- u.s. stock mutual funds fell 11 percent in the third quarter, matching the steepest decline in six years, as the seizure of credit markets pushed financial companies into collapse and forced the government to intervene.
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As Fear Gripped Markets, Even Reliable Mutual Fund Strategies Didn't ... - Washington Post
resize it's been a rocky year for all investors, but for those who parked their money in mutual funds, it's been downright shocking. the public's crisis of confidence in the stock market, in the economy and in the country's political leadership ...
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Financial Services Funds Surprise Winners In Third Quarter - Street.com
considering the fates met by one-time banking giants wachovia ( wb quote - cramer on wb - stock picks ) , washington mutual ( wm quote - cramer on wm - stock picks ) and indymac and not to mention countrywide financial , lehman brothers and aig ( aig ...
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International Stock Funds Tumble Hard In An Unforgiving Quarter
many investors like to think of international-stock mutual funds as a part of their portfolio that can offer respite from domestic market troubles. but results this year are disproving that idea with alarming force.
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Defensive Plays Help Funds Weather Third Quarter
new york - mutual funds focusing on defensive stocks -- health care and consumer staples -- were among the few winning categories of funds during the third quarter as more turbulence swept across wall street and left investors with shrinking portfolios.
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A Volatile Bear Is Still Stalking Wall Street Even After Bailout - Azcentral.com
dazed investors are looking for answers after a dismal third quarter filled with economic and financial shocks, a three-month stretch when the dow jones industrial average shed 4.4 percent of its value and the standard and poor's 500 index slipped 8 ...
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Savers, Investors Look For Safety In Rough Times - Pittsburgh Post-gazette
with stock prices tumbling, banks shutting down and each day bringing new concerns about the stability of the financial system, savers and investors are scrambling to find safe havens for their hard-earned money. "right now there is uncertainty in ...
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Weekend Investor: U.s. Stock Funds' Sharp Quarterly Losses Test Investors' Mettle
there’s an old saying among investors that a stock doesn’t know you own it, so don’t get attached. in the tumultuous third quarter, investors did everything they could to run as far as they could from stocks.
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Top Funds: Banks Out, Financial Services In
the top six best open-end stock mutual funds in the third quarter were specialists in financial services.
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Funds That Advertise Don't Always Perform Better - Reading Eagle
as any business owner knows, the more you advertise, the more customers you'll have. so it's no surprise that many mutual funds advertise - collectively, they spent $253.8 million in 2007, according to nielsen monitor-plus. unfortunately, the high ...
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Hedge Funds Face Worst Year - Financial Times
hedge funds on tuesday closed out one of their worst-ever quarters as us managers braced for an extension of the short-selling clampdown which has robbed them of one of their most popular strategies. the hedge fund business has been left reeling by ...
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Investors Pull Billions From Funds
canadian investors, rattled by sinking stock markets and worried about the safety of their money market investments, yanked a whopping $4.6-billion from their mutual funds in september.
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Money Market Mutual Fund Lifeline
the government is throwing an unprecedented lifeline to money market mutual funds battered by withdrawals, as fear spreads regarding the investments that they hold.
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An Ugly Market's Lessons For Investors - Wall Street Journal
it's been almost a year -- a long and painful year for investors -- since stock-market benchmarks including the dow jones industrial average hit record highs last oct. 9. the stormy markets since then have caused much upheaval for mutual-fund ...
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Economic Answers Lie In Tax On Fund 'gains' - Memphis Commercial Appeal
i'm writing on behalf of fund investors everywhere, the kind of average consumers on whom you are counting to prop up the economy, the type of average investors you are asking to stay patient and stay put with the markets, and the taxpayers who are ...
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Stable Value Funds Safer Option To Stock Funds
rapid changes on wall street and the uncertainty around the government's multibillion-dollar bailout plan has created considerable angst in the minds of average folks with retirement accounts.
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Legislators May Be Asked To Address Texas Pension-fund Losses
by yamil berard the stock portfolios of some of the state’s largest investments funds — supporting government employees’ retirements and public education — have taken quite a beating this year. by summer, the value of some of the funds had dropped by billions of dollars. inflicting damage was the ruthless bear market that smacked hardest u.s. and international financial-sector stocks. that’s ...
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Stock Falloff Uncovers Etf Flaws - Wall Street Journal
in the upheaval of the past several weeks, many of the things that can go wrong with exchange-traded products did go wrong. exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded notes generally offer cheap and easy access to parts of the market that might be ...
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