By Mark Miller CHICAGO (Reuters) – During a recent visit to my dentist, we got talking about his frustrations with Medicare. “It’s amazing – they have managed to eliminate teeth from the human body.”
By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) – Strong U.S. consumer holiday spending will not boost retailers across the board but instead benefit winners like Apple Inc that have signature products,
By Gail MarksJarvis CHICAGO (Reuters) – All that tuition you pay has one silver lining: tax breaks.
By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) – The gains of internet-related stocks in recent years have cast a shadow over what a dull but steady income stream from dividends can do for investors.
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks have been battered over the last few weeks but a senior executive at Blackstone Group LP, one of the world’s most influential asset managers,
By Sujata Rao and Karin Strohecker LONDON (Reuters) – Italian assets have further to fall before prices start to look attractive but the selloff will not trigger 2012-style contagion across the euro
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Emerging market debt is a rare fixed-income class that does not look too expensive, and could be an even more attractive investment if the U.S. dollar weakens,
By Chris Taylor NEW YORK (Reuters) – You do not even have to win on a talent competition show like “American Idol” to launch yourself on a path to selling more than eight million albums.
(The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.)