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Share in financial services company MBIA are up more than 10% in pre-market trading after Fairholme Capital Management, the investment firm headed by Bruce Berkowitz, disclosed that it had purchased an 11.1% stake in MBIA, the world's largest bond insurer.

There was a time not long ago when nobody knew what an ETF was. Now, just when you've gotten accustomed to ETFs, you've probably begun hearing a bit of buzz around their cousins, the ETNs: exchange-traded notes. Here's what every investor should know.

We may or may not be headed into a recession. It depends upon which economist you believe, but it is time to assess your risk exposure and possibly reallocate your portfolio holdings. Don't panic and start selling just because you hear warnings of a recession. You may be locking in loses that are...