A Teen Girl's Guide to Managing Wealth. When I handed the book to my 13-year-old daughter, Olivia, she groaned.

Beat the Rush to the Banks. As Warren Buffett once said, you never know who's been swimming au naturel until the tide goes out. And as investors have discovered, the U.S. banking system spent the better part of the past decade's housing bubble doing an underwater striptease. Now we're all getting an eyeful as banks,..

Do You Need To Talk? Congress has passed the bailout, but there's still no improvement in the economy. If anything, things are getting worse. The global markets are imploding and Americans are despairing over their investment balances or worried their cash isn't even safe. With all that's going on, you may need some..

Financial crisis will be resolved: Bush. US President George W. Bush insisted on Friday the raging global financial firestorm would be put out as panic-stricken markets suffered more staggering losses.

Know the Rules to Keep Your Cash Safe. Everywhere I go, I can feel the tension. People are naturally concerned about their investment portfolios, but increasingly they're also worried about the safety of their cash.

Oil prices dive to one-year lows as stock markets slide. Oil prices slumped Friday to one-year lows under 80 dollars per barrel, striking 75 dollars in London, amid a global equities meltdown that sparked fears over demand for energy, traders said.

European markets plunge again. European stock markets slumped in early trading today following massive sell-offs on Wall Street and Asia as lending rates between banks continue to rise despite this week's efforts by central banks to break..

Are market falls good time to invest? DoA stock market falls like the recent one better times to invest money in stocks? If yes, then how should you go about investing in stocks? How long should you hold your positions if you have bought when the..

Stocks plunge, pressure on G7 to act on crisis. Fearful selling clenched Asian markets on Friday after U.S. stocks plunged, heaping pressure on economic powers to halt a global spiral of financial distress and slowing growth.

Swim Among the Water Stocks. By Laura Cohn The world is facing a growing shortage of fresh water. In fact, dwindling supplies of this most natural of resources are making water nearly as hard to find as oil. That means companies involved in selling, purifying or facilitating the transport of water should be good investments as..

Four Picks for a Packaged Approach. Banks' financial statements are dense stuff, so you might want to let an expert do the grunt work by investing through a fund. Veteran bank expert David Ellison, who manages FBR Large Cap Financial, began turning bullish on the sector in July. He's looking for cheap stocks of..

U.S. firms up plan to buy into banks to stem crisis. The U.S. government pushed on Saturday to finish a plan to buy direct stakes in American banks as finance ministers from around the world struggled to find ways to stop the deepening financial crisis and shore..

All that money you've lost _ where did it go?Photo: Mark Lennihan In this Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 file photo, artist Laura Gilbert displays her "Zero Dollar" artwork in front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York.

Avoiding the Temptation of Beaten-Down Stocks. In troubled times, bargain hunters typically feast on a buffet of beaten-down stocks. But the managers of the First Eagle Overseas are not yet tempted by many new opportunities. Instead, they're mostly nibbling at familiar flavors and adding to existing positions.

Playing Defense at Vanguard Selected Value. Jim Barrow is investing defensively at Vanguard Selected Value. "The consumer is under a great deal of pressure," says Barrow, whose firm runs about three-fourths of the fund's assets. He expects the consumer-related companies in his portion of the fund, such as discounter Family..

Your Bank in Your Pocket. Property manager Joshua Rosenthal was in a car headed toward Miami Beach when he realized he needed to transfer a tenant's rent money to his company's account. No problem. The driver didn't even have to pull off the road. Rosenthal, owner of Bethesda property-management company CAPM, just fiddled..

Rate cuts won't be enough to stimulate lagging global economy: economists. The Bank of Canada, along with the world's most powerful central banks, cut short-term interest rates Wednesday in yet another stab at finding a magic bullet to end panic in the capital markets.

The Primecap Edge. Dodge & Cox has been around forever -- the San Francisco firm dates to 1930. But the fund family didn't really garner notice from the average investor until earlier in this decade, when a rally in value stocks and the dot-com bust revealed that outstanding fundamental value investors like Dodge &..

London stocks plunge. The FTSE 100 index of leading shares plunged by almost nine percent on Friday after fresh falls on Wall Street, as investors continued to fret over the worldwide financial crisis.

Video. Oct. 9 - This is one anniversary investors are soon to forget. Just one year after Wall Street set the highest stock market closes in history the Dow & S&P 500 are down well over 30 percent.