Investors approaching retirement and worried about the negative effect of a volatile market on their savings might want to give annuities a closer look — even though ultralow interest rates currently make that purchase a tough decision.

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With European officials moving to confront the continent’s massive debt crisis, investors who can stand the high-stakes drama might want to take a flier on European stocks, in the hope that the worst is over, over there.

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We all know what’s on Mark Zuckerberg’s to-do list this February. He’s taking Facebook public. When it comes to taxes, you have things to do, too, even if not on the same titanic scale.

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You might care for your money more than anyone else, but you have to give it the utmost level of concern and protection, writes Chuck Jaffe..

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Ann and her husband are considering re-mortgaging their house to pay for their son’s boarding school. Dave doesn’t like the cost of this boarding school and has some tough words for Ann.

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Buying foreclosures to turn them into rental properties is tricky business. Mack Companies, a Chicago real-estate firm, invests in about one out of every 40 homes it inspects. MarketWatch’s Amy Hoak looks at why some make the cut and others don’t.

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The U.S. economy added 243,000 jobs in January, some much-need good news after a long drought — though the past six months have been better, on the jobs front, than you may think. Read that story and more in today’s Personal Finance Daily.

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