Economy - Tuesday      (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - The ex-Fed chief said it's not clear if a proposed $75 bil fund to ease the current credit crisis will work. The fund, created by Citigroup, Bank of America and JPMorgan, will buy high-quality assets of structured investment vehicles. Alan Greenspan said, "The issue here is how do you stabilize this sort of market ... will an intervention do that? If you go into a market and absorb a chunk of supply by essentially bidding above what fire-sale prices might be, that might persuade others from trying to get out of the market."
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Investor's Business Daily - Investors pumped $4.8 billion into stock funds in August as the stock and bond markets rose amid slumping oil prices and easing inflation jitters.
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Investor's Business Daily - Asia is doing particularly well in 2006. Among the bright spots are iShares MSCI Singapore  (AMEX:EWS - News), up 13.67% this year.
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Investor's Business Daily - Even before Tuesday's 0.75% slash in the federal funds rate by the Federal Reserve, mortgage rates had been sliding. Last week's cut pulled down home loan rates more.
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Investor's Business Daily - Fueled by the ongoing economic rally, businesses are boosting their contributions to 401(k) plans.
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Investor's Business Daily - Short exchange traded funds got a small boost this week as the Dow Jones industrial average lost 416 points and the Nasdaq composite dropped 96.66 Tuesday. But that doesn't mean you should necessarily chase them, says ProShares Advisors CIO Bill Seale.
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Investor's Business Daily - There might come a day when U.S. investors don't have a hopeless crush on Chinese stocks, but that day won't come soon.
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Investor's Business Daily - Environment: Enough can't be said about Tony Blair's unwavering support of the U.S. in the war on terror. His position on global warming is another matter.
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Investor's Business Daily - The ABC News/Washington Post Consumer Comfort Index shot up 5 points over the last week to -7, the best in several weeks. Some 39% of respondents said now&#39;s a good time to buy, a big rise from 33% last week. Americans also were more upbeat about the economy and their own finances. Gasoline prices, which have fallen back below $3 a gallon, likely are a big factor.
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Investor's Business Daily - These are good times for owners of mutual funds that go short.
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Investor's Business Daily - Mutual fund investors reached deeper into their pockets in October to step up buying of stock and bond funds, as the market rallied and the outlook for inflation improved.
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Investor's Business Daily - Despite rising interest rates, the Mortgage Bankers Association&#39;s seasonally adjusted index of application activity edged up 6.6% to 666.5 in the week ending June 8. Its index of purchase activity rose 7.2%, while refinancing activity climbed 5.6%. Analysts called it a scramble to head off rising borrowing costs. Mortgage rates are at their highest since mid-&#39;06.
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Investor's Business Daily - Investors who held interests in real estate investment trusts and home-building exchange traded funds celebrated last week as real estate shares surged. But don&#39;t break out the champagne yet -- analysts say caution should be your operative approach.
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Investor's Business Daily - Dollar bulls found little reason to be thankful Wednesday as traders headed out early for the holiday.
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Investor's Business Daily - Amid a shaky market, investors put just &#36;1.09 billion into stock funds in August. The total reflects &#36;1.21 billion that shareholders pulled from stock funds investing in just the U.S.
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Investor's Business Daily - U.S. stock mutual funds tumbled for the third straight month in July as the Federal Reserve kept raising interest rates, oil prices rose and geopolitical problems from North Korean missile tests to an Israel military strike into Lebanon kept investors on the sidelines.
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Investor's Business Daily - After slogging through a correction in May, a number of European exchange traded funds have recovered in recent weeks and ventured to new highs.