Finance Money Fuchers Business: апреля 2013

пятница, 26 апреля 2013 г.

Hidden danger lurks in bond funds

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April 26

Hidden danger lurks in long-term bond funds

Bond funds have interest rate risk. Here's how you can avoid it.

Pure 1,000-gram gold bars in a dealers room in Seoul in 2009.

Ask Matt: Is it time to bail out of gold?

Q: Is it time to bail out of gold? A: Gold has proved to be a bad long-term investment.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during an event at Facebook headquarters on April 4 in Menlo Park, Calif.

Ask Matt: Why is Facebook stock languishing in 2013?

Social media giant's attempts to climb back to IPO price have been marked in fits and starts.

MORE HEADLINES

Charles Schwab, founder and chairman of Charles Schwab Corp.

markets

Schwab website plagued by denial-of-service attacks

Schwab website down for more than an hour Tuesday, unavailable at times Wednesday.

Is there a way for nervous investors to get back into the stock market?

Personal Finance

Market-shy investors can ease back into stocks

It's natural for investors burned by bear markets to be cautious about jumping back in.

Dory Brinker, 69, is a student enrolled in human services alcohol and drug abuse counseling at Cape Cod Community College. Brinker heard about the 50 Plus Initiative at the college and decided to go back to school.

Personal Finance

Rethinking Retirement: Tips for older job searchers

There are a number of programs and websites aimed at helping older job seekers.

Personal Finance

Student debt worries? Options for paying it off

Income-based and extended payment plans can help lower monthly payments.

Index mutual funds and exchange traded funds are baskets of stocks that allow investors to easily buy into hundreds if not thousands of stocks.

Personal Finance

Pew: 93% of households lost net worth 2009-11

Richest 7% of households owned 63% of the nation's household wealth in 2011.

Ask Matt: My brokerage firm has gone missing. Is there a way to track it down?

columnist

Problem with your brokerage? How to track it down

My brokerage firm has gone missing. Is there a way to track it down?

Personal Finance

Audit: Las Vegas cabs overcharged $15M in airport rides

Audit says Nevada Taxicab Authority needs to prevent roundabout rides.

See More on USATODAY.com

Development Finance Watch, Issue 117

Eurodad Newsletter

26 April 2013 – Issue #117

European Network on Debt and Development
DEVELOPMENT FINANCE WATCH

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Top Story »

IMF and World Bank hold their Spring Meetings making gloomy days for development

The Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank just ended in Washington DC and brought little promise of sunny days ahead for development.

News »

EU’s support to private sector development: focus on poverty reduction and job creation is needed

An April seminar on the “Evaluation of the European Union’s support to private sector development in third countries” showed that much more needs to be done to maximise the impact of EU money on the ground, since linkages between EU support to private sector development and poverty reduction and job creation remain very distant.

News »

Eurodad-Glopolis International Conference 2013

Don’t miss the major opportunity for information sharing, analysis and strategy session of the year: the Eurodad biennial conference, which takes place in Prague from 3-5 June! The deadline for registration is Tuesday, 30 April.

Blog »

Aid to the private sector: how to do it, that is the question

A debate on the role of business in development cooperation last Thursday, 11 April in Amsterdam, raised one particularly revealing question for me: is it possible to reconcile two unrelated (and potentially conflicting) ambitions that the Dutch government has: “to eradicate extreme poverty” and “to facilitate success for companies doing business abroad”?

Featured resource »

Videos from the event “Is aid to the private sector promoting responsible investments?” – organised on 21 March 2013 at the European Parliament – are available in French, English and Spanish.

Read more about this event: Press Release and Blog

If you have any feedback on articles, content suggestions for future issues or other thoughts, please write to: assistant@eurodad.org

What’s New

Issue #117
26 April 2013

ACTION ALERT
Urge the World Bank’s safeguards policies to uphold human rights.

FEATURED MEMBER

Forum Syd supports global economic policies that promote fair and sustainable global development.

EURODAD MENTIONS

Eurodad’s report Cashing in on climate change? is mentioned in Friends of the Earth’s Pro-poor climate finance report and Bretton Wood Project-CAFOD working paper.

Eurodad’s paper Private

profit for public good?

is mentioned in BOND’s report on private climate finance

Jesse Griffiths shares his views on the International Monetary Fund in the French newspaper, Libération (in French).

EURODAD IN ACTION

Bodo Ellmers and Jeroen Kwakkenbos participated to the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings .

EVENTS

What: Tracking the records of development banks in the Middle East

When: 29 April 2013
Where: Brussels, Belgium

What: Eurodad/Glopolis International Conference

When: 3-5 June 2013

Where: Prague, Czech Republic.

VACANCY

ActionAid Zambia is looking for a Tax Justice Advisor.

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