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Brendan Boyd is on a two-week vacation. The following column consists of items that drew considerable reader response when first published. During the unprecedented four years ending in 1998, the [...]

Education has become a hot political issue. Regardless of which side prevails, government expenditures on education are likely to increase. According to Thomson Financial/IBES, earnings on these seven educational stocks [...]

Despite a slowing economy, biotechnology stocks have managed to outrun this market. Last year, the S&P biotech index gained 17.1 percent, compared to an 8 percent decline in the S&P [...]

Despite a slowing economy, biotechnology stocks have managed to outrun this market Last year, the S&P biotech index gained 17.1 percent, compared to an 8 percent decline in the S&P [...]

Do strong investment returns beget strong investment returns? And can investors enhance their returns by cherry-picking stock indexes based on past performance? Historical data suggests that they can, and in [...]

The stage is set for another rally for platinum and palladium, predicts Personal Finance newsletter. 'Total world demand for platinum is set to rise 2 percent this year, from 5.60 [...]

California's power industry has blown a fuse. Rolling blackouts and spiking power rates have left the two biggest utilities, Edison International and PG&E, gasping for air. With electricity demand soaring [...]

No one would pay more for one slice than for a whole pie. But that's how dozens of major companies and their subsidiaries are now being priced on Wall Street. [...]

Nearly 67 percent of Americans now own their own house, an all-time high. The size of the average house has also grown almost 50 percent in the past decade, and [...]

Over the long term, most stock funds run by banks have produced mediocre results. For the past three years, for example, bank equity funds returned 18.7 percent annually compared with [...]

Despite gathering strength in the European economies, European country and regional closed-end mutual funds recently sold at discounts to their net asset values of 5 percent to 30 percent. In [...]

Internet stocks may have been the most spectacular movers in the securities markets over the past few years, but telecom issues haven't been far behind. And the telecom industry has [...]

The two-year Treasury bond was recently yielding 0.15 percent more than the 10-year issue. Such inversions have tended to occur around troughs in bond prices and peaks in yields, says [...]

RS Emerging Growth Fund has been the top-performing small-stock fund over the past three-, five- and 10-year periods, appreciating an average 85.7 percent, 53.6 percent and 33.4 percent annually, respectively. [...]

The increase in the interest rates by the federal government is discussed. Suggestions by Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine on investing in different kinds of bonds such as short-term bonds funds, ultra-short-term-bond funds, junk-bond funds, etc. is presented.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Harcourt Brace Jovanovich didn't get as much cash as Rubin expected when it sold off its theme parks. But that's only one reason he believes the company [...]