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Best and Worst Brokers of 2012
Brokers are luring investors with high-tech tools and more. Our annual survey ranks the good and the bad.

Student Loan Price War: Banks vs. Feds
Real-Time Advice: The fixed rates offered by some banks now undercut the historically lower-priced federal student loans.

The Sibling Sinkhole
SmartMoney Magazine: How showing a little brotherly love can be an expensive proposition.

How to Tame Market Uncertainty
Hoenig: While we can't control or predict the markets, we can make decisions about our portfolios.

Where the Stock and Bond Bargains Are Hiding
Hough: Both the safest and the riskiest assets are overbought. We hunt for the best deals in the middle.

Why a 'Balanced' Portfolio May Not Work
Arends: That 60/40 portfolio of stocks and bonds your adviser is pushing might not work.

Psychoanalyzing Facebook's 'Like' Button
Pay Dirt: New research finds that people who "like" an inordinate number of Facebook status updates may be mentally unstable.

Cut Travel Costs With Free Gas
Deal of the Day: Hotels can help fund – and fuel -- a summer roadtrip.

What's Keeping the Euro From Sinking
Casey: To the chagrin of many currency traders, the euro refuses to sink. What's behind its stickiness?

Banks: Back to Risky Business?
Real-Time Advice: J.P. Morgan's $2 billion loss suggests risky derivatives trading didn't end with the financial crisis.

Avoid Retirement Health-Care Mistakes
Coombes: The typical health-care tab will run $240,000, but could run much higher.

How Smaller Investors Can Play Facebook
With pre-IPO shares going mostly to Wall Street's top clients, advisers are seeking alternative ways to be part of the action.

Who Should Regulate Investment Advisers?
Zweig: Investment advisers are being examined infrequently, inconsistently and incompletely. It's time to put computers on the case.

The Case for Extreme Couponing
Deal of the Day: Shoppers looking to cut their grocery bills may need to expend more effort to get deals.