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Hot Stocks To Buy In 2012

Maybe it was because Seeking Alpha did not carry my annual list of 10 Clean Energy Stocks for 2012 this year, but no one seems to have noticed that there were actually 11 stocks in the list. Call it the Spinal Tap of top-ten lists. If anyone did notice the extra pick, they didn’t leave [...]

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S&P Lowers Rating of SPDR Bond Fund

On March 18, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services lowered its fund credit quality rating on SPDR Barclays Capital International Treasury Bond ETF (BWX) to Af from A+f. The fund’s volatility rating continued unchanged at S4. S&P said in a statement that it had lowered the rating because of exposure of about 11% of the ETF’s [...]

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CFP Board Mulls Changes to Disciplinary Approach on Bankruptcies

The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards announced Wednesday that it’s seeking comments by Feb. 17 on whether to modify the way the board handles bankruptcy filings by CFPs. As it stands now, the CFP Board asks CFP candidates on their initial application if they’ve filed for bankruptcy to determine whether they are “fit for [...]