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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. D.A. Points shot a 2-under 70 at Del Monte, and Matt Bettencourt had a 71 in wind and rain at Spyglass Hill to share the second-round lead Friday in the Callaway Golf Pebble Beach Invitational. Points, 66th on the PGA Tour money list this season, had a scrambling round with two eagles, three birdies, two bogeys and a triple bogey.

It was very windy and nasty   -Matt Bettencourt

 

D.A. Points shot a 2-under 70 at Del Monte, and Matt Bettencourt had a 71 in wind and rain at Spyglass Hill to share the second-round lead Friday in the Callaway Golf Pebble Beach Invitational. Points, 66th on the PGA Tour money list this season, had a scrambling round with two eagles, three birdies, two bogeys and a triple bogey. "I've had the most fortunate tee time of the tournament at 8:30 and we got through before it got too bad," Points said.

It was very windy and nasty   -Matt Bettencourt

 

In a Charles Schwab survey of advisors at major financial firms, six out of ten respondents (59%) say the idea of being an independent investment advisor appeals to them. Nearly half of all respondents say that they would actually consider a move to independence. The surveyed advisors from wirehouses, banks and independent broker dealers are also confident about the strength of their client relationships, with eighty percent saying that they feel their clients are more loyal to them than to their firm.  

Champions Tour players John Cook and Olin Browne shot 6-under 66s at Del Monte Golf Course on Thursday to share the first-round lead in the Callaway Golf Pebble Beach Invitational. Cook, coming off a victory Nov. 1 in the Champions Tour's season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship, had six birdies in his bogey-free round. "I'm pretty satisfied, considering I haven't played at all since the Charles Schwab Cup," said Cook, who won his first PGA Tour event at the Bing Crosby Pro-Am on the Monterey Pen

I'm pretty satisfied, considering I haven't played at all since the Charles Schwab Cup   -John Cook

 

The California Public Employees' Retirement System, Calpers, is sick and tired of "uninformed" critics taking swipes at it recently. The fund, which manages $200 billion in assets for California government employees, has seemingly had little time to grapple with the ongoing financial crisis amid the need to fend off a stream of allegations that its ranks are corrupt and its operations mismanaged. Among the criticisms thrown at Calpers: Board-member junkets, under-the-table placement fees from outside ag  

Bucking that trend is the recent 6.9% saving rate increase in May 2009, the highest spike since December 1993, according to the US Commerce Department. Those who are having difficulty saving may find relief in an often overlooked financial product: the automatic savings plan. Automatic savings plans are easy to arrange and can be opened in the major money-center banks, JPMorgan Chase ( JPM ), Bank of America ( BAC ), or Citigroup ( C ), community and regional banks, credit unions, and financial servic  

NEW YORK, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Americans have dramatically integrated social networking tools into their lives. Euro RSCG Worldwide, one of the world's leading advertising and marketing agency networks, conducted a study on how people use the ever-changing options in social and online media available today. According to the study, their world is expanding and narrowing at the same time because of social media's hyperlocalization quotient.

Word of mouth has always been the most powerful marketing tool; what social media has done is dramatically increase the scale, velocity and immediacy with which people can influence each other and create the biggest revolution to hit our industry since television   -David Jones

 

I want to buy $6,000 worth of gold and have listened to and read about some of the exchanges that sell gold to the public like The National Gold Exchange that will sell me gold at wholesale. They said gold will go to $2,000 an ounce this year. I want to get the best price and my wife told me to write you because you may know of a selling group that offers the best price, even better than The National Gold Exchange.  

The largest return of investor money continued on Tuesday when word broke that a Wells Fargo & Co. unit will return as much as $1.4 billion to clients whose funds were frozen in the auction-rate-securities market. The pact follows more than a dozen other auction-rate-securities settlements totaling more than $61 billion and involving companies such as Bank of America, Citigroup, Credit Suisse Group, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs Group, J.P. Morgan Chase, TD Ameritrade and UBS. Click here for the WSJ stor

We will continue to seek much needed relief for investors who have suffered from the collapse of the ARS markets   -Denise Voigt Crawford