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When to Dial Down Your Stock Market Exposure 10/23/2014 12:00am • If you have been following the stock market closely over the last month, then you might be giving yourself an ulcer. The S&P 500 index dropped almost 10 percent since its high in September, and it can be unsettling to see your net worth decrease every day. Every investor knows that the stock mar 5 Easy Ways to Simplify Your Retirement Savings 10/23/2014 12:00am • For many people, thinking about mutual funds, asset allocation and retirement accounts is akin to eating their broccoli. A Charles Schwab survey found that 401(k) participants spend twice as much time researching a new car purchase as they do managing their retirement investments. Yet, we all know h Beware of these 10 scary investments 10/23/2014 12:00am • Do you want to see a financial advisor jump? Bring up one of these frightening investments. These ideas give financial advisors goose bumps because they're like Halloween candy: seemingly free, hard to resist, and in this case, likely to deliver financial cavities. 1. Investments bought throug FTC names privacy expert as chief technologist 10/22/2014 09:20pm • BRANDON BAILEY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday named an outspoken Internet privacy expert, Ashkan Soltani, as its chief technologist in a move that signals the agency's focus on protecting consumers' online privacy.A computer scientist and technolog Colorado man pleads guilty to oil patch murder 10/22/2014 06:20pm • MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press SIDNEY, Mont. (AP) -- A Colorado man pleaded guilty Wednesday to the murder of a Montana teacher in an oil boom town where residents say their lives were forever altered by the crime.Montana District Judge Richard Simonton accepted Michael Keith Spell's guilty plea on Libyan army troops advance into Benghazi 10/22/2014 03:32pm • OMAR ALMOSMARI Associated Press BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- Libyan army troops on Wednesday pushed into Benghazi, the first time in two months that government forces had entered the eastern city, which has been under control of Islamist militias.The advance was a significant boost to the troops, though Police brutality claims shadow Tunisia elections 10/22/2014 11:44am • SAM KIMBALL Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- When Mohammed Ali Snoussi was arrested last month in Tunis, witnesses say, police beat him with truncheons, stripped him naked and threatened to rape him in broad daylight.The Interior Ministry said Snoussi was wanted for drug possession, trafficki Stocks edge higher...Inflation remains in check...Air bag warning expanded to 3 million more vehicles 10/22/2014 11:40am • NEW YORK (AP) -- Some good news on corporate earnings is nudging stocks mostly higher in early Wall Street trading, a day after the Standard and Poor's 500 index had its best day of the year. Yahoo jumped 6 percent after reporting encouraging third-quarter results late yesterday. Yahoo got a windfal Jewish group shifts view on Nazi benefit payments 10/22/2014 07:21am • RICHARD LARDNER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- An influential Jewish advocacy group said Tuesday it no longer supports allowing suspected Nazi war criminals to receive Social Security benefits.World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder said in a statement to The Associated Press that U.S. la How Chess Players Can Win at Personal Finance 10/22/2014 12:00am • One well known, but seldom practiced, strategy in chess is to think a few moves ahead. Chess players are able to increase their odds of success by simply planning for a variety of possible outcomes in the near future. The ability to anticipate future problems and opportunities, a skill that chess p 9 scary things consumers do with their money 10/22/2014 12:00am • The upside of fearFear can be fun. That's why we like to watch horror movies, dress up as ghouls and goblins for Halloween and ride roller coasters. But fear can also be a useful tool. It motivates us to keep our cholesterol down and be cautious drivers, for instance. With that in mind, here are 5 Social Security Changes Coming in 2015 10/22/2014 12:00am • Social Security recipients will receive 1.7 percent bigger checks in 2015, the Social Security Administration announced today. And some groups of workers will begin receiving benefit statements in the mail with a list of taxes paid and an estimate of their future retirement benefit. Here's a look at In Louisiana, both sides claim defense of Medicare 10/21/2014 11:31pm • BILL BARROW Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- An old political standby -- the future of Medicare -- is emerging as the go-to issue in Louisiana's bitter Senate race as the candidates woo seniors who typically wield strong influence in midterm elections.The challenge for voters is to figure o Millions in Social Security for expelled Nazis 10/21/2014 12:46pm • DAVID RISING Associated Press OSIJEK, Croatia (AP) -- Former Auschwitz guard Jakob Denzinger lived the American dream.His plastics company in the Rust Belt town of Akron, Ohio, thrived. By the late 1980s, he had acquired the trappings of success: a Cadillac DeVille and a Lincoln Town Car, a lakefron White House opposes Nazi benefit payments 10/21/2014 04:04am • RICHARD LARDNER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Nazis should not be getting the Social Security benefits they are receiving as they age overseas, the White House said Monday, responding to an Associated Press investigation that revealed millions of dollars have been paid to war-crimes sus