By DORIANNE PERRUCCI They’re as boring as they sound. They’re more complex than they seem. But stable-value accounts can be a smart option for the most conservative slice of a 401(k) portfolio, especially in the current interest-rate environment. Journal Report Insights from The Experts Read more at WSJ.com/WealthReport More in Investing in Funds & ETFs [...]

Por SERENA NG A Procter & Gamble Co. está estudando ampliar o prazo de pagamento dos seus fornecedores, medida que pode liberar até US$ 2 bilhões para o caixa da gigante de produtos de consumo, segundo pessoas a par do assunto. Ela pode usar o dinheiro para investir em novas fábricas ou recomprar ações. Essa [...]

By J.S. MARCUS STATS: A three-room, 1,260-square-foot co-op apartment, with an eat-in kitchen and one bathroom, asking 8.7 million kronor (around $1.3 million), or $1,030 per square foot. Co-op charges, including property taxes and most utilities, are around 1,550 SEK a month. The apartment has electric heating, supplemented by wood-burning antique stoves. Electricity, billed separately, [...]

By BRETT ARENDS Want to beat the Treasury market? Pay off your mortgage. Repaying a mortgage early offers, in essence, a risk-free return in the form of the interest saved. Nowadays anyone with a mortgage of 4% or 5% can earn more by repaying the loan than by investing in bonds, which have been rallying [...]

By SARAH TILTON Open House 331 Greer Rd. Woodside, Calif. STATS: A home of about 9,000 square feet, with nine bedrooms and 8½ bathrooms, on about 92 acres, asking $85 million, or $924,515.98 per acre. Property taxes in 2011 were $7,943.62. Photos: Historic Silicon Valley Estate Hits the Market for $85 Million View Slideshow Bernard [...]

By DAVID MERMELSTEIN New York The Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini has enthralled classical-music lovers for more than half a century. But while he continues to impress even his critics with his immense technical gifts in live performances and on benchmark recordings, he remains dogged by a reputation for cool, even chilly, perfection. Christopher Serra Normally [...]

By GREGORY L. WHITE, PAUL SONNE and SIOBHAN GORMAN MOSCOW—Russian authorities expelled an American they accused of being a Central Intelligence Agency officer operating under diplomatic cover on Tuesday, posing a new potential setback to recent U.S. efforts to rebuild frayed ties with Moscow. Russian authorities say they have detained an employee from the U.S. [...]

By COLLEEN DEBAISE From smSmallBiz.com MARTHA MONTOYA HAS found a way to grow her small business: She exports. While “exporting” conjures up images of vast shipyards and warehouses, Montoya, a comic-strip artist in Santa Ana, Calif., sells her colorful cartoon characters for use on snack packages in China, Ecuador, Colombia and other far-away places. She [...]

By ROBERT GRESKOVIC Brooklyn Phnom Penh’s Royal Ballet of Cambodia, the country’s exponent of Khmer classical dance, has roots going at least as far back as the ninth century. Like a crown jewel, the dance-and-music troupe’s appearances capped the Season of Cambodia, a two-month series of events and exhibitions in New York. Performances of “The [...]

By MARY PILON A college education may not be worth as much as you think. For years, higher education was touted as a safe path to professional and financial success. Easy money, in the form of student loans, flowed to help parents and students finance degrees, with the implication that in the long run, a [...]