The Bond Fund Scoop
Fool's School
Do you expect interest rates to rise soon? If that happens, it will cost more to borrow money and you may get a little extra on your income investments. But your bonds may lose value. There's an inverse relationship between bond prices and yields. If interest rates rise, the prices of existing bonds drop. Why? Well, imagine you have a bond that yields 5 percent. Full Story
Name That Company
Founded in 1888, I'm a financial services, education, and information and media services giant. My Standard & Poor's division offers credit ratings on more than 220,000 securities and funds worldwide, indexes for benchmarking, independent investment analysis and more. I'm a major K-12 publisher in America, and I publish BusinessWeek magazine. Full Story
Apollo Group
The Motley Fool Take
For-profit educator Apollo Group (Nasdaq: APOL) started off its new fiscal year with a bang, reporting a rollicking 17 percent rise in revenue for its first quarter, to $781 million. Free cash flow rose 44 percent year over year to $184 million. Full Story
Bad Professional
My Dumbest Investment
My husband died at age 42, leaving life insurance proceeds to invest. I relied on a "professional" to do this for me. Needless to say, I had lots of up-front costs and it took years to recover. I should have put the money in CDs until I knew more. Now, 18 years later, I am doing all the decision-making. Full Story
Last week's trivia answer
You may not know my name, but I'm one of America's largest companies. I own Dairy Queen, Benjamin Moore, Johns Manville, GEICO, Nebraska Furniture Mart, Executive Jet, See's Candies, Acme Brick, The Pampered Chef, Fruit of the Loom and much more. My class A shares sell for around $140,000 each. My class B shares sell for nearly $5,000. Insurance is my main business. Full Story
Gift Versus an Inheritance
Ask the Fool
Q: If an uncle gives me stock when he dies, will I be taxed on the gains? - G.B., Grand Rapids, Mich. A: There's a big difference between a gift and an inheritance (received from someone's estate). With a gift of appreciated stock or property, your basis (or cost, for tax purposes) is the same basis that the person who gave you the gift originally had. Full Story
What Is This Thing Called The Motley Fool?
Remember Shakespeare? Remember "As You Like It"? In Elizabethan days, Fools were theonly people who could get away with telling the truth to the King or Queen. The Motley Fool tells the truth about investing, and hopes you'll laugh all the way to the bank. Full Story
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