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They Just Don’t Get J.C. Penney!A Software Reboot Might Just Save This Ailing Phone Giant
This turnaround is far from a sure thing, though.
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5 Technologies CES 2012 Just Killed
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — CES gadgets can make 3-D replicas, smarten up your car and make almost all the technology in your house slimmer and flatter, but they can’t stop your old tech toys from becoming obsolete.
The CES carnage may not be as clear as it was last year, when a flood of tablets drowned the minor netbook presence on the floor, but the fallout from this year’s offerings will be no less pronounced. Judging by the top products at this year’s show, integration is still the one constant at CES.
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Your 401K Match Just Got Axed; Now What?
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — According to a New York Post report, “embattled” PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi is considering eliminating the company’s matching contribution to employee 401K retirement accounts, as well as 4,000 layoffs.
Pepsi’s employees also have a separate pension plan, independent of the 401-K, according to the report, but the elimination of the match raises the question of what an employee should do if a 401K match is eliminated. Is it still worth making a tax-deferred contribution into the 401K? Is it worth avoiding the taxes?
PepsiCo employees may not wish to toast CEO Indra Nooyi
For starters, a matching contribution to a 401K is a wonderful thing. If, for example, your employer is willing to match half your contribution up to 3%, and your gross salary is $ 50,000 a year, and you contribute 6% of your salary in a year, you contribute $ 3,000 to the 401K and the employer contributes $ 1,500. That’s a fat 50% immediate return on your investment for that year.
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Why I Just Bought Shares of this Oil Giant
I love chatting with my subscribers. It's one of my favorite parts of being chief investment strategist of my new newsletter, Energy & Income. That's why I try to address as many questions that subscribers send as possible.
Now, I can't get to every single email that makes it to my inbox. But I do take a little time each month to share some of the best questions — and my answers — with subscribers about how to profit from the world's most important industry — energy.
It's important to me that my readers know that I'm in their corner. It's also one of the reasons why Energy & Income uses "real money" portfolios — I actually buy and sell each holding in a real brokerage account, which StreetAuthority funded with $ 100,000. And subscribers not only are able to mirror my performance, but they sometimes even beat it, because I always give 48 hours advance notice before I buy anything, and I'll always tell subscribers exactly when to sell.
Pros Had a Bad Year, So Why Not Just Buy an Index Fund?
By Jeff Cox, CNBC.com Senior Markets Writer
NEW YORK (CNBC) — You’ll have to excuse fund managers for looking like they’re about to get coal in their stockings. They’ve had an awfully rough year.
Just one in four managers beat the major stock indexes this year, as an intensely volatile market environment drove an aversion from risk that left many dangerously exposed during pullbacks and woefully flatfooted during rallies.
The primary drivers of the underperformance were the toxicity of the European debt crisis and an uncertain recovery in the U.S.
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