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SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- Can it be this simple? Can just three mutual funds handle all your savings needs? The idea may not be for everyone. But the formula is easy enough: One index fund to cover U.S. stocks, another for the international markets and a third for the U.S. bond market. Together, this trio has rivaled U.S. stock returns over one-, three- and five-year spans, and with more sta ...

BOSTON (Dow Jones) -- A rule of thumb about mutual fund investing that you often hear this time of year is: "Never buy a fund in December if it is making a big capital gains payout." You're likely to hear it a lot this year, as stock- market gains have boosted the returns on many funds and made them candidates to pass out big year-end distributions. But like all rules of thumb, this one has exc ...

NEW YORK (AFX) - Investors get back to work in the coming week following the Thanksgiving holiday and will be looking to see whether stocks can hold or perhaps extend their gains in the five remaining weeks of the year. With the all-important holiday shopping season having begun in earnest last week investors will be looking to retailers for signs of how consumer spending is registering. Cons ...

HONG KONG (XFN-ASIA) - Share prices turned firmer in early trade after opening flat as select blue chips attracted some buying interest in line with mild gains posted by some markets in the region such as Tokyo and Taiwan, dealers said. They said, however, trading remained generally cautious ahead of the release of certain US economic data later in the week, they said. As of 10.20 am, the Hang S ...

HONG KONG (XFN-ASIA) - Share prices turned firmer in early trade after opening flat as select blue chips attracted some buying interest in line with mild gains posted by some markets in the region such as Tokyo and Taiwan, dealers said. They said, however, trading remained generally cautious ahead of the release of certain US economic data later in the week, they said. As of 10.20 am, the Hang S ...

Tom McGhie and Jack Gee, Mail on Sunday26 November 2006 France and Germany are working to resolve a funding row that threatens to delay a decision on the £6bn project to produce a new Airbus A350 extra-widebodied jet. OTHER STORIES Branson steps up ITV war AA jump-start for £3bn float Market report: Yesterday's trading Sale talk after 3 axes managers Furse in Nasdaq ta ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AFX) - You'd think it was Texas. Dusty roads course the scrubland toward oil tanks and warehouses. Beefy men talk oil over burritos at lunch. Like grazing herds, oil wells dip nonstop amid the tumbleweed -- or even into the asphalt of a parking lot. That's why the rumor sounded so wrong here in California's lower San Joaquin Valley, where petroleum has gushed up more rich ...