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Europe's rich suffer lowest investment returns in years: survey
LONDON - Europe's richest families have suffered the lowest returns on their fortunes for five years, after economic turmoil pushed them to park too much money in underperforming safe havens, a report said on Tuesday.
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JPMorgan No. 1 in customer survey, rivals fall back
- JPMorgan Chase & Co jumped to first in a U.S. customer satisfaction survey, as its three biggest rivals, including perennial leader Wells Fargo & Co, posted a decline in their scores.
Jobs outlook modest ahead of "fiscal cliff": Manpower
NEW YORK - U.S. employers are expected to continue adding jobs in the first quarter of 2013, but uncertainty over the "fiscal cliff" has tempered the outlook, according to a quarterly hiring survey by ManpowerGroup.
Norquist won't oppose Republicans wobbly on taxes, yet
WASHINGTON - Republican lawmakers who publicly mull acquiescing to tax increases on the wealthiest Americans may be guilty of "impure thoughts" in the words of anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, but he says that alone is no reason to throw them out of office.
U.S. women make slow progress into boardrooms, executive jobs
NEW YORK - Although women make up nearly half of the U.S. workforce, only 16.6 percent have seats on the boards of Fortune 500 companies and the number has barely budged since 2005, according to a study released on Tuesday.
Your Money: The "Apple Tax" - America's costly obsession
NEW YORK - With the "fiscal cliff" looming, taxpayers are wringing their hands about all sorts of things. Income taxes might rise, dividends might get walloped, lifetime gift-tax exemptions might get slashed.
The best ways to boost charitable donations
BOSTON - The holidays often find families asking how and where their charitable giving can have the most impact, but this year those discussions may have more urgency: There's the potential for tax reforms that could affect the treatment of charitable donations, as well as the large need left in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. Full Article
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