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Column: Bernanke's dangerous optimism

- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is an optimist about economic growth in the coming decades, rejecting "depressing" views about a slowdown to put his faith in collaborative innovation driven by a jackpot culture for inventors.

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Your practice: Five tips for effective client meetings

- Keeping clients on track during one-on-one strategy sessions is often a tricky balancing act. It requires planners to acknowledge the deep emotions that are usually attached to the financial lives of their clients. At the same time, advisers must keep the discussion from straying too far from the careful decision-making that goes into every financial plan.

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Awaiting rebound in Europe, Poland stifles growth at home

WARSAW - Poland has turned its back on policies that once made it Europe's growth leader and is flirting with the recession that it alone among its emerging European Union peers has evaded through years of crisis.

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Should you skip Obamacare and keep your old plan?

BOSTON - When the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, starts rolling out in October, it will overhaul how Americans get healthcare coverage. Yet many workers will feel little immediate impact.

20 May 2013

Column: Two ways to pick your summer stock retreat

CHICAGO - It used to be easy to abide by the old Wall Street nugget that you should pull out of the market in spring and come back in the fall.

20 May 2013

Prosecutors' subpoena of SAC's Cohen puzzles defense lawyers

NEW YORK - The decision by prosecutors to compel Steven A. Cohen to testify before a federal grand jury about allegations of insider trading at his $15 billion hedge fund is leaving many criminal defense lawyers scratching their heads.

20 May 2013

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    NASDAQ 3,502.12 +5.69 +0.16%
    TR US Index 151.55 +0.32 +0.21%
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    USD/JPY 102.51 +0.26%
    Gold 1,378.20 -6.50 -0.47%
    Oil 95.89 -0.55 -0.57%
    Corn 638.25 -11.25 -1.73%