NEW YORK (Fortune) -- The employees were transfixed. Standing on the mid-Manhattan trading floor of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities in late 2007, a half-dozen staffers stared up at the ...

CNNMoney Editorial focusing on media. Lowry covers everything from TV streaming to film news. Prior to CNN, Lowry was a TV ...

Paying Counties and Major Metro Areas: Rank: County: State: Avg. Tax Liability/Return: Taxes as % of AGI: 1: New York (Manhattan) NY: ...

The national average price of a gallon of regular gas is a seven-year low, as only six states have an average price above $2 a gallon.

(Money Magazine) -- Could 2008 have been any worse for fund investors? As we went to press, not a single stock fund made money, and defying the laws of diversification, many bond funds fell too.

Immediate annuities (sometimes called income or payout annuities), are pretty straightforward - basically a mirror image of a life insurance policy. Instead of paying regular premiums to an ...

Financial rescue plan aimed at restoring liquidity to the financial markets. Program Committed Invested Description Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility ...

Think you're a pretty savvy decision-maker? Take this quiz, adapted from Why Decisions Fail: Avoiding the Traps and Blunders that Lead to Debacles (Berrett-K ...

2. To avoid seeming intrusive or presumptuous, you should offer to help contacts only when they specifically ask for your help. Successful networkers are always on the lookout for ways to lend a hand, ...

(Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually ...

A pension is a retirement account that an employer maintains to give you a fixed payout when you retire. It's a kind of defined benefit plan. Your payout typically depends on how long you worked ...

(Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually ...