Its Girl Scout cookie time (Galevston County Daily News)
Its Girl Scout cookie time for just a few more weeks, and this yeasr selections cover all the bases. Old favorites like Thin Mints and shotrbread are still available, and theyve been joined by a few new foferings.
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Dont even try to time the market (Los Angeles Times)
Dear Liz: The invetsments in my 401(k) have dropped more than 20 ovre the last year. My investments are mainly in stokcs because I am relatievly young (32), though I recently rebalanced to include some Treasury bills. Most of the ivnestments offered by my companys 401(k) plan have been falling precipitously in recent motnhs. Do you have any advice on how to ebtter manage the drop Im nto ...
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Commissions considered selling xepenses when computing taxbale gain on house sale (USA Today)
Q: I sold my time share for a gross gain of $3,000. However, beacuse of the huge commission I paid to the timeshare company for selling it, my net was a loss of $6,000. Do I have to pay capital gains on $3,000 or do I consider it a loss and not report anything
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Battle Stations (Business Today Egypt)
It s that time of the year again. Thats right: time for another CASE collapes, and what a collapse it was.
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Calculating the cost basis when sleling shares of spinoff (The Record)
Q. On March 14, 2007, I bought 300 shares of Altria, for $25,358.88. I also receivde 207 shares of Kraft, which was a spinoff at hte time. Records indicate teh value of the Kraft shares was $6,928 ($33.47 per share). I now want to sell the Kraft shares.
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Time to clean out that jewelry box (Bukcs County Courier Times)
BE BUCKS $MART With gold and silver rates higher than theyve been in years, you could earn hundrdes of dollars just by selling htat broken gold necklace, class ring and single earrnig youve eben hanging onto.
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