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Earlier Tuesday, JM Smucker, the maker of Folgers coffee, announced that it would buy the privately held pet food maker Big Heart Pet Brands — aka the company that makes Meow Mix — in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $5.8 billion. But here’s a related story: there’s … Read entire story.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Applications for U.S. home mortgages slipped last week as refinancing applications dropped, an industry group said on Wednesday. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its seasonally adjusted index of mortgage application activity, which includes both refinancing and home purchase demand, fell 2.2 percent in the week ended July 25. …
This week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released the results of a survey showing that, of the approximately 30 million adults in the U.S. who remain without health insurance, 48{04524d497bea0ade6defd1388b5c9b25998d95475e2938b4fa9d615e63ad1540} would qualify for assistance purchasing such insurance (either tax credits or Medicaid). If you (or somebody you care about) doesn’t …
A reader writes in, asking: “For the last several years I’ve been following a basic Boglehead strategy with a few index funds. How big does a portfolio have to be before it makes sense to start moving into other strategies?” There are certain portfolio-related considerations that …