A Live Baby or Your Money Back
Parenting is among the strongest and most basic of
human instincts. Clinics that market in-vitro fertilization
procedures to childless couples know this well.
Several fertility clinics around the country these days
aggressively tout such procedures, frequently offering couples
two options.
Why Shareholders Like to Invest at Home
At a time when stock markets around the world are getting
hammered by the Asian flu and the ruble's
collapse, U.S. investors may need little persuasion to stay
away from investing in foreign stocks.
Filing for Bankruptcy? Big Deal!
Last year 1.35 million Americans — more than 1 per cent
of households in the U.S. — declared bankruptcy. If
that figure is not stunning enough, consider this: These
numbers represented an increase of 73 per cent over 1994.
Anatomy of a Low-cost Mutual Fund
In recent years index mutual funds, which mirror the
movements of indices like the S&P 500, have become
very popular. The cost of investing in such funds can be
quite high, however, if they are pegged to indices of so-called
small-cap stocks.
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