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Shortly after the stock market began its initial descent, Rob Phelan, a high school math teacher in Maryland, received an email sales pitch: ''The Coronavirus may be Fatal -- to [...]

Americans in their mid-60s could live nearly three more decades, research shows, so a healthy dose of stock in your portfolio is actually prudent now. If you're on the cusp [...]

Robinhood remained down part of Tuesday as the markets bounced around, leaving customers angry and nursing big losses. SAN FRANCISCO -- Robinhood has become a Silicon Valley darling by presenting [...]

This is not yet one of those stuff-your-money-in-a-mattress moments. Still, the talk in Washington of a federal budget crisis and possible default has given rise to all sorts of consumer fears of doomsday scenarios. Missed Social Security payments. Spikes in interest rates. Draconian cuts in government services. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The stock market's damage has already been done. And if you're one of those people near or already in retirement, you already know you're going to have to work longer, save more or spend less. But what should you do right now with the money you have left? Should you wade back into the stock market, if you bailed out when the market was plunging? Or if you watched your investments drop and then recover a little in the last few months, should you just hold on? What happens if the market doesn't fully recover for a long time? (That happened in Japan in the '90s.) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When wealthy investors are willing to hand over a sizable sum to a single money manager they heard about at the country club, certain first principles of investing bear repeating. That manager, Bernard L. Madoff, is accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of running a fraud scheme that may be the biggest in Wall Street history. But if it ends up in the record books, it will be because scores of people made outsize bets on his prowess without taking the time to fully understand what they were investing in. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Companies whose pension funds suffered big losses this year will not have to replenish the money quickly under a relief measure that flew through the Senate Thursday and will next go to the president for his signature. Because of strong market performance, big contributions made in the past, and a two-year phase-in of tougher financing rules passed in 2006, many companies have not had to pump much money into their pension funds in the last few years. But they suddenly faced the prospect of having to come up with a lot of cash because of this year's financial crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

[Updated 7:41 p.m.] With the cloud of uncertainty still looming over financial markets, hundreds of readers responded to an invitation to submit questions about the effect on their personal finances. And several recurring themes emerged. Many individuals are still concerned about the safety of their money market mutual funds, as well as the specifics behind the alphabet soup of insurance, from F.D.I.C. to S.I.P.C. Some are worried that they will not be able to get student loans for college, while others have questions about their retirement funds. Answers to many of these questions appear below. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Money market funds have been among the few places that investors could put their cash and sleep peacefully. At the moment, that is not necessarily true. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]