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Stocks are underperforming so far in 2010, and Treasury bond yields are low, too. So how can you get good returns without excessive volatility? Standard & Poor's Equity Research suggests mixed-asset mutual funds, which capture the strengths of both stocks and bonds.

With local TV stations scrambling as advertising dwindles, it's prompting some to examine a money stream traditionally relegated to newspapers: obituaries. WNEM-TV, a Saginaw, Michigan, CBS affiliate owned by Meredith Corp. (MDP), may be the first TV station in the U.S. to air obituaries -- an idea...

Life insurers are expected to be the next recipients of bailout funds from the Treasury Department's remaining $130 billion in TARP funds, according to a story in today's Wall Street Journal. In order to get the money, the life insurers must own a federally insured bank or savings and loan. Life...