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The Gulf – U.A. E

Friends in Need
When Abu Dhabi bailed out Dubai it brought the two largest emirates in the U.A.E. closer together. Time will tell whether the entente is lasting or merely opportunistic.
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Encore

Finding Our Way Home
Technology is helping more of us return to the places where we grew up. But when you arrive, will it measure up to your memories?
- A Family Searches for Its Past in Cuba
- Audio Slideshow: A Trip Back to Cuba
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Can These Retirements Be Saved?
We invited readers to tell us about the cracks in their nest eggs. Here's a look at several who asked for 'retirement makeovers' -- and what the experts recommend. (See the full report)
Have You Learned Your Lessons?
The financial crisis supposedly has been a painful, but valuable, education about finances in later life. Let's see how much you've really taken away from the past year. (See the full report)
Test-Driving Retirement Plans
More companies are rolling out detailed and affordable services to help get your finances in shape. We tell you what's good about them—and what's not so good. (See the full report)
Making Suburbia More Livable
Sprawling suburbs may have been a good place to grow up, but they're a tough place to grow old. Here's how towns are "retrofitting" neighborhoods—and what your community might look like in the future. (See the full report)
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Quarterly Markets Review
For Rebuilt Markets, a Test in 2010
Markets staged a remarkable recovery in 2009, coming back from the brink of disaster thanks to unprecedented efforts by governments around the globe. The question facing investors is how the markets will stand on their own in 2010. (See the full report)
Best Quarter Since '98 for Dow
The stock market continued to confound the skeptics in the third quarter, ending near its highs for the year, with many of the riskiest stocks leading the charge. (See the full report)
After the Collapse, Guarded Hope
After one of the U.S. stock market's worst years in more than a century, many investors are hoping for a turnaround in 2009. (See the full report)
Global Markets Going Their Own Ways
There was a wide divergence in markets' performance in first three months of 2009, with results ranging from poor to middling to stellar. (See the full report)
Dow Rose 838.08 in Quarter
The Dow industrials closed the second quarter at 8447.00, up 11%, or 838.08 points, for the last three months but down 3.8% for the year. (See the full report)
- See an archive Quarterly Markets Review reports.
Executive M.B.A. Rankings
Top M.B.A. Programs if You're in a Hurry
Many workers in these tough times are turning to M.B.A. programs that let them earn a degree in half the time, often at a fraction of the cost. (See the full report)
Energy & Environment
Creating Environmental Capital
The Wall Street Journal's third annual ECO:nomics conference highlights how much uncertainty has crept into the business of the environment.
- Highlights From ECO:nomics Conference
- Video: Energy Secretary on Bureaucracy
Long Road to an Alternative-Energy Future
Blame it on technology, infrastructure or policy. But it's going to take many years for new technologies to make much of a dent in our current energy mix.
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If It Warms Up, Who's Going to Pay?
Poorer countries insist there will be no environmental pact unless wealthy countries help them adapt to the possible effects of global warming. Samuel Fankhauser offers a blueprint for cooperation. (See the full report)
Innovations in Delivering Health Care
In this report, we discuss innovations in health-care delivery that touch on a variety of areas—public policy and high technology, hospital procedures and market competition. But all of them in some way revisit the most important relationship in care—the one between doctor and patient. (see the full report)
Five Technologies That Could Change It All
As the world tries to wean itself from dependence on fossil fuels, technological breakthroughs in these five areas could be a huge help. (See the full report)
Cutting CO2 Without Hurting Growth?
There's little doubt: Cutting greenhouse gases will be costly. But that leads to two big questions. First, how costly? And second, can nations afford it? (See the full report)
The New Nukes
The new generation of nuclear reactors is on its way, and supporters say they will be safer, cheaper and more efficient than current plants. Here's a look at what's coming -- and when. (See the full report)
- See an archive of Energy & Environment reports.
Business Insight Reports
Why Diversity Can Backfire on Boards
When it comes to corporate boards and diversity, the conventional wisdom is simple: Diversity is good. But to unlock the benefits, boards must learn to work with colleagues who were selected not because they fit in, but because they don't.
- Podcast: Preventing Board Conflicts
- Podcast: Benefits of Outsourcing
No Executive Bonuses!
When you look at the way bonuses are paid to executives, the problem isn't that they are poorly designed. The problem is that they exist. (See the full report)
Too Big to Manage?
Ability to cope with complexity has never been more important. Before another corporate giant further tests the notion of "too big to fail," here's how to manage complexity more effectively. (See the full report)
The New, Faster Face of Innovation
Technology is transforming innovation at its core, allowing companies to test new ideas at speeds and prices that were unimaginable even a decade ago. (See the full report)
Why Business Plans Don't Deliver
Successful business plans that impress investors are seldom written on the back of a napkin. Here's how to write a plan that won't end up in the trash. (See the full report)
Surviving the Downturn: Lessons From Emerging Markets
For some companies, a volatile economy is business as usual. What have they learned? No. 1: Take the offensive. (See the full report)
- See an archive of Business Insight reports.

Technology Reports

Why Can't We Choose Our Office Technology?
Companies typically tell us what technology we can—and can't—use. It's time to end those policies. (See the full report)
Email Reign Is Over
Email no longer dominates communications. And this shift promises to rewrite the way we communicate -- in ways we can only begin to imagine. (See the full report)
The 2009 Technology Innovation Awards
This year's winners include: a tool to identify new disease strains, an artificial hand, a solar-powered base station for mobile phones and paper-thin flexible speakers. (See the full report)
D: All Things Digital
As excerpts from the annual conference show, we're seeing the beginning of a new era in technology. (See the full report)
Here Comes the E-Book
Author Steven Johnson outlines a future with more books, more distractions -- and the end of reading alone. (See the full report)
Smart Roads. Smart Bridges. Smart Grids.
A look at the technologies that could take America's decades-old infrastructure to new levels of intelligence. (See the full report)
- See an archive of Technology reports.
Mutual Funds Report
The Hidden Costs of Mutual Funds
How much does it cost you to own a mutual fund? Probably a lot more than you think. Portfolio managers can rack up steep expenses buying and selling securities, but that burden isn't reflected in a fund's standard expense ratio.
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Pay Shift Has Benefits for Fund Investors
A big change in how financial advisers get paid has rippled through investors' mutual-fund portfolios—and the fund industry itself.
- Podcast: Paying Financial Advisers
How to Play the Foreign Angle
Last year was a great year for foreign-stock funds—especially those geared toward emerging markets. So do fund managers anticipate a repeat in 2010? (See the full report)
What Are You Paying For?
"Closet index funds" have higher fees than true index funds but don't differ enough to warrant the higher costs. (See the full report)
The Cruel Math of Big Losses
This year's robust stock-market advance has done a lot to bolster investors' psyches. Too bad many portfolios still haven't recovered from last year. (See the full report)
Inflation Protection:
No Guarantees
Funds holding indexed bonds, gold and commodities are popular as hedges against rising prices. Time will tell if they can deliver. (See the full report)
- See an archive of Investing in Funds reports.
Your Money Matters Reports
The Mistakes We Make—and Why We Make Them
How investors think often gets in the way of their investment success. Meir Statman looks into our heads and tells us what we're doing wrong. (See the full report)
The Best Online Tools for Personal Finance
Consumers are paying closer attention to what they buy, how much they save, and where they invest. These resources can be a huge help. Even better, most of them are free.
What Do I Do Now?
As we wade through these difficult times, how should you think about your own financial situation? (See the full report)
The Future for Home Prices
Americans still see real estate as their best shot at wealth. It may be wishful thinking. (See the full report)
- See an archive Your Money Matters reports.
Small Business Reports
How to Succeed in the Age of Going Solo
Anybody can become a consultant. But not everybody does it well. Here's what you need to know to thrive.
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Top Small Workplaces 2009
For many companies, tough times end up pushing the work environment to the back burner. But other companies commit to employees' well-being and development, which can pay off handsomely—both now and in the future. (See the full report)
Sick and Getting Sicker
For entrepreneurs trying to start or run a business, the obstacles are huge. But few loom as large as health care. (See the full report)
Starting Over—as an Entrepreneur
For laid-off workers, launching a business may seem the best path to survival. Here are the stories of five people who are taking that route and the lessons they’ve learned.
- See an archive of Small Business reports.
Economics Reports
Strategies for Survival
How do some companies get through tough economic times relatively unscathed -- or even better off -- while most of their competitors struggle to survive? (See the full report)
How to Choose a Financial Adviser
Having a professional on your side is crucial. But how can you guarantee that your expert is reliable? (See the full report)
Future of Finance Initiative
The Wall Street Journal assembled roughly 100 of the brightest minds in finance to discuss not just how to restart the global financial system, but how to reconstruct it. (See the full report)
More Reports
How's It Going? A One-Year Report Card
A year into the Obama administration, we asked Americans how they're feeling about the president and politics. We found a lot of weariness, a few glimmers of optimism, and not much good news for Democrats.
10-Year Dose of Reality
The first decade of the 21st century turned out to be more like the reality-TV shows that proliferated during its span.
Fixing the Global Financial System
More than a year has passed since an unprecedented crisis pushed the world financial system to the brink. Yet plans to rebuild that system on more stable footing remain embryonic. (See the full report)
What Should You Do With Your Money in '10?
Financial advisers offer their advice—about stocks, bonds, insurance and more. (See the full report.)
How to Rebuild Global Prosperity
At The Wall Street Journal's CEO Council, executives had plenty of advice—and plenty of concern that Washington isn't listening. (See the full report)
What's Wrong With Charitable Giving
It's hard to overstate the crisis facing charitable giving today. So what can foundations and others do to make a difference for the nonprofits and the people they are designed to help? (See the full report)

State of the Nation

Poll Shows Democrats Lose Their Edge
Voters are evenly split over which party should run Congress—a sharp comedown for the Democrats, according to the new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
Lack of Credit
Economic growth may be up, but so is the feeling that the president isn't handling the economy well.
Dangers Ahead
Americans are more nervous about their own long-term prospects—as well as for their children's generation.
Second Opinion
Americans are worried Congress will make a bad health-care system even worse.
Fighting Form
President Obama's ratings on foreign policy have slipped, but not as much as in other areas.

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