International Business News - MORN http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Bank stocks are no longer reliable sources of dividend income--a painful truth that cuts a little deeper now that one of the biggest traditional dividend-paying stocks, Citigroup Inc., is restricted under a federal bailout from making quarterly payouts of more than a penny a share. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081124/citigroup-bailout-further-dims-dividend-outlook.htm Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:28:07 EST Blue chip stocks are said to have taken their name from the poker table, where the blue chips are the most valuable, but traders are debating whether they're a good gamble in the current market. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/blue-chip-stocks-cheap-but-not-immune.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:02:41 EST Morningstar Inc., a provider of investment research, said Friday that it plans to buy South Africa's InvestData Ltd. for an undisclosed amount. Morningstar said it expects to complete the acquisition of the fund information provider in the fourth quarter. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/morningstar-to-buy-south-africas-investdata.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:13:36 EST Dividend-paying stocks have never been considered sexy. But the prospect of owning a stock that reliably makes regular payouts holds a certain allure when most stocks these days are tanking. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081119/online-money-finding-top-dividend-paying-stocks.htm Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:33:53 EST The economic downturn might be pushing Sun Microsystems Inc., one of the storied names in computing, to the brink of extinction. The company's servers and software helped stimulate the Internet boom, and its engineering acumen is revered. But Sun never fully recovered from the previous financial crisis--the dot-com meltdown--and it has been steamrolled by big shifts in the way businesses buy their back-end computers. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081114/sun-to-cut-up-to-6-000-workers-18-pct-of-staff.htm Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:00:38 EST Fixed-Income Funds performance Category YTD 3 Year 5 Year http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081113/selected-bond-funds-summary-performance.htm Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:13:31 EST Talk about kicking investors when they're down. A required year-end practice by mutual funds is about to whack many people with capital gains taxes at the cruelest of times: when funds already have declined by as much as 40 percent this year. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081112/taxable-distributions-may-shock-fund-investors.htm Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:55:25 EST Financial services firms will likely face a broad new regulatory environment in 2009 that could help regain at least a portion of the profitability enjoyed earlier this decade, analysts said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081105/financial-regulatory-overhaul-likely-under-obama.htm Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:45:54 EST A basket of dividend-paying stocks accounts for about two-thirds of Elaine Durham Mobley's annual income of $64,000. Her biggest and most reliable dividend holding? Some 5,000 shares of Bank of America Corp. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081027/dividend-cuts-eat-away-at-retirement-income.htm Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:27:42 EDT The advice from financial experts has been painfully repetitive during weeks of decline in the markets: A bottom should be near. History says stocks always bounce back. Don't sell now and miss the recovery. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081024/markets-latest-lurch-down-raises-new-uncertainty.htm Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:21:54 EDT Battered by competition and slowing demand, Sun Microsystems Inc. swung to a big loss in its fiscal first quarter, dragging the server and software maker's results below Wall Street's forecast. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081020/sun-microsystems-expects-fiscal-1st-quarter-loss.htm Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:28:48 EDT Latin American stocks plunged Wednesday as European and U.S. shares slipped, commodities prices fell and currency losses spread. Brazil's Ibovespa stock index plunged 11.4 percent to 36,833, triggering the automatic 30-minute suspension of mid-afternoon trading. Vale do Rio Doce, the world's largest iron ore miner, lost 15.2 percent, while state-run oil company Petrobras fell 12 percent as crude hit a 13-month low. Together, the two companies comprise 34.5 percent of the Ibovespa. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081015/latin-america-stocks-plunge-as-us-shares-slide.htm Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:19:02 EDT It may be the biggest trap in investing: Trying to predict the direction of the stock market. Many frightened investors apparently fell into it late last week, bailing out of stocks as the Dow careened toward and briefly dipped under 8,000. As a result, they missed the biggest one-day rally since 1933 on Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081014/rally-underscores-the-futility-of-market-timing.htm Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:18:48 EDT If you had hoped this week would bring significant recovery to the stock market, you've clearly been disappointed. Many investors are wondering why approval of the government bailout plan didn't have an immediate impact on restoring confidence in the economy, leading to this week's question: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081009/economist-stock-market-recovery-will-take-time.htm Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:58:21 EDT Even after IBM Corp. surprised Wall Street with a healthy profit in the third quarter and a reaffirmation of its earnings outlook for the rest of the year, the broader technology sector dived again Thursday. There's just not enough of what lifted IBM to go around. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081009/despite-ibm-profits-a-tech-gloom-still-looms.htm Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:32:19 EDT If the recent need for cash at three of the nation's largest insurers is any sign, third-quarter earnings reports from the sector are likely to show profit declines and losses driven by credit-related investments. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081009/insurers-expected-to-show-big-3q-profit-declines.htm Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:21:37 EDT Forester Value Fund (FVALX) Manager: Thomas Forester http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/forester-value-fund-glance.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:50:59 EDT The shakeup in the U.S. financial services sector and the accompanying ripple effect in the wider economy prompted several readers to ask about moving some of their retirement money into international funds or emerging market funds. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081002/emerging-market-funds-should-be-used-cautiously.htm Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:08:25 EDT Country music superstar Carrie Underwood references a Sonic drive-in as a favorite spot along the main drag in her single-stoplight hometown of Checotah in her hit song, "I Ain't in Checotah Anymore." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081002/oklahoma-based-sonic-faces-rough-weather.htm Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:13:00 EDT Health insurers raced into the third quarter on a wave of positive earnings reports, but financial market woes washed away much of their momentum as the quarter ended Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080930/health-insurers-lose-steam-as-quarter-closes.htm Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:55:30 EDT