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The latest measure of home sales took another significant dip in July and things might actually turn out to be worse than the number suggests. That’s particularly bad news for investors and retirees who often have the vast majority of their net worth tied to their residence.

BlackRock has filed to create proprietary indexes for its iShares exchange-traded funds. The indexes will be "transparent to the public," the exemptive order says, indicating the indexes could be for actively managed ETFs.

Although Hurricane Irene may have wreaked havoc on millions of households across the East Coast, the storm had little impact on core post-trade clearing and settlement activities.

The greatest thing President Obama could do on the eve that commemorates the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is to set a date certain in this calendar year for the withdrawal of U.S. and allied armed forces from Iraq and Afghanistan. Let’s now concentrate on making our economy healthy. And, as that happens, we can again help other economies get healthy as well.

Exchange-traded fund assets rose 0.8% in July to $1.086 trillion, up from $1.077 trillion in June, the Investment Company Institute reports. Assets rose 32% from $821 billion a year ago, July 2010.

It may be true that past performance doesn’t guarantee future results, but a long track record may play well with investors during these tumultuous times. And that’s exactly what some prominent blended funds bring to the table.

The Internal Revenue Service has extended the due date until Sept. 9, 2011, for taxpayers with undisclosed foreign bank accounts to participate in its latest offshore voluntary disclosure initiative.

Standard & Poor's has launched the MILA 40 Index, tracking the largest and most liquid stocks trading on the Mercada Integredo Latino Americano (MILA) platform, the joint venture of the Chile, Columbia and Peru stock exchanges. Stocks in the index must have market caps above U.S. $100 million."Equities from the Andean regions have been among the best-performing in all emerging markets," said Alka Banerjee, VP of global equity indices at S&P Indices. Banerjee called the index "a sound benchmark [for] this important region of the world."

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