  | | | | (Reuters) - You don't have to spend much time listening to Angelina Jolie or Bono to know that celebrities can help raise awareness for charities. Just about anyone with the name recognition to make it into "People" magazine has used that power to promote a cause or two. | | | | | (The author is a Reuters contributor. The opinions expressed are her own. This is part of a six-story package on charitable giving.) | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S.-based stock and bond funds saw a dramatic pullback in the latest week as worries over the "fiscal cliff," a combination of tax hikes and spending cuts in the U.S., eroded sentiment, data from Thomson Reuters' Lipper service showed on Thursday. | | | |  | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. stock market almost wiped out his retirement account, but retired pilot Ronald Scarpa hasn't lost his taste for risk. Lately he has turned to one of the chanciest investments in the world - the Iraqi dinar. | | | |  | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Superstorm Sandy drove a surge in new claims for jobless benefits last week and hurt factory activity in the mid-Atlantic region in November, signs it could deal a substantial blow to economic growth in the fourth quarter. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Uncertainty about the "fiscal cliff" of scheduled tax increases and spending cuts prompted analysts this month to cut early 2013 U.S. economic growth expectations, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Analysts at investment research firm Morningstar lowered the rating on PIMCO Global Multi-Asset fund by one notch to bronze from silver in response to the fund's underperformance relative to its benchmark and exposure to new management, the data firm said on Thursday. | | | | | | TORONTO (Reuters) - Tammy Oribine was a financial planner for just a couple of months when she realized it was not the job for her. She did not like sales, did not feel confident enough about the products and hated the face-to-face contact that is a staple of the business. | | | | | (Reuters) - A former chief financial officer of Needham & Co was charged on Thursday with stealing $1 million from the investment banking and brokerage firm and using some of the money to pay for vacations, wine and a dog fence. | | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - The looming U.S. fiscal cliff of tax rises and spending cuts combined with renewed euro zone tension over Greece are threatening demand for riskier emerging market assets, just when some are getting expensive. | | | | |  |  | | | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today | | |  | |  | | | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today | | | | | | » MORE NEWSLETTERS | |
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