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Personal Finance Daily
JUNE 12, 2014

Woodstock for the 1%, and the perfect investment portfolio

By Priya Anand

Personal Finance Daily
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Hello, MarketWatchers.

Woodstock for the 1%

What you get for $6,500 at a music festival. Rock out in style — and in an air-conditioned bathroom.


The perfect investment portfolio?

Brett Arends even consulted the strategy of a medieval German tycoon while searching for a nonsense-free, all-weather portfolio. He thinks he's found it .

Music to your ears

Amazon.com Inc. is launching a music streaming service that's free for Prime users. Is the Prime price tag ($99) now worth it? Plus, streaming might saddle you with larger data bills .


Blame Apple, not O.J.

White has been the most popular car color for eight years, and an analyst says Apple had a hand in that.


Basic biology

The $3.5 billion market for fertility services won't tell you that regardless of advancements in treatment options, it can't change the fact that women are still most capable of conceiving in their mid-20s.

Big daddy

Americans aren't expected to spend as much on him as they did on Mother's Day, but if you're shelling out, avoid these five terrible gifts .

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Three-Card Monte

Investors are looking in the wrong places for information. We're all saps in the stock market's shell game, Michael Sincere writes.

Cash is king

Despite the stock market's five-year bull market, investors have raised their cash allocations over the past two years from 31% to 40% of their portfolios, research shows .

Oh, chute

"Chute" is the Portuguese word for kicking, as in "to shoot," except it's pronounced" SHOE-tee. That and nine other tricky words to know for the World Cup .

The lost heir

The leading candidate to succeed J.P. Morgan Chief Executive Jamie Dimon quit to go into private equity. Why? "You are talking less hours and more money ," the founder of a recruiting firm tells MarketWatch.

Want to make a fortune?

Then you've got to leave the U.S., Peter Schiff says , because the Federal Reserve has created bubbles that will breed catastrophe.

A blow to Wall Street

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's defeat will burn a hole in Wall Street's Washington Rolodex.

5 things you need to know about Iraq

Oil prices are surging as Iraq edges closer to all-out sectarian conflict. Here's what it means for global markets.

Dollar stores for your dollars

Shop these four retail stocks that have outperformed the industry this year, Phil van Doorn writes .


Magic ball and 6 other tech innovations at the World Cup

The World Cup will feature some fancy new technology , including an aerodynamically friendly soccer ball and a brain-controlled exoskeleton.

Yellen's draft

Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney's Thursday comments are a blueprint of what we can expect to hear from Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen.




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