| | Personal Finance Daily JUNE 12, 2012 Tuesday's Personal Finance Stories By MarketWatch Don't miss these top stories: Vacation planning? How about something off the beaten path? Something, say, that has the adventure element, or volunteer opportunities? Today on MarketWatch, consumer columnist Jeanette Pavini hits the road with Road Scholar, which has been providing educational travel programs for more than 35 years. What's the No. 1 destination for Road Scholar participants? Cuba. See our slide show and read about trends in adventure and education travel, and intergenerational programs.In our London 2012 Olympics coverage today, read about how companies such as Visa, Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble hope to turn their millions in Olympics marketing dollars into international success.— Anne Stanley , Managing Editor, Personal FinanceAdventure travel: Hit the road with Road Scholar Road Scholar, the educational travel program formerly known as Elder Hostel, offers more than 6,500 iconic domestic and international educational adventures each year in the U.S. and 150 countries around the world. What's currently the No. 1 destination choice? Cuba.
See the slide show: Adventure travel: Hit the road with Road Scholar. Making the most of 2012 Olympic sponsorships What makes the Olympics unique is scale, both in terms of audience size and the marketing efforts surrounding the event. With the Summer Games in London, which begin on July 27, expected to be watched by billions of people over more than two weeks, the marketing and advertising effort, even for some of the biggest spenders in the world, is a task that requires special focus.
Read more: Making the most of 2012 Olympic sponsorships. Hiring plans tick higher for the third quarter Employers' hiring plans are ticking higher for the third quarter, continuing a trend of slow and steady growth, according to Manpower's employment-outlook survey released Tuesday.
Read more: Hiring plans tick higher for the third quarter. Recession crushed middle-class wealth: Fed survey The recession crushed the net worth of middle-class families as real estate values tumbled, according to a survey released by the Federal Reserve on Monday.
Read more: Recession crushed middle-class wealth: Fed survey. INVESTING Significance of 200-day moving average Should you care that the market earlier this month violated the 200-day moving average, and is in grave danger of doing so again? The answer is complicated.
Read more: Significance of 200-day moving average. Surging Spanish bond yields push Europe lower A sudden late day surge in Spanish bond yields to all-time highs ad pressure on European stock markets, which erase earlier gains and head lower.
Read more: Surging Spanish bond yields push Europe lower. PNC, regionals struggle as broader sector gains Shares of PNC fall more than 3%, pressuring other regional bank stocks after the firm told an investment conference audience that it would raise the amount of money it spends on buying back bad mortgages
Read more: PNC, regionals struggle as broader sector gains. Our fate is in others' hands No matter what the politicians in Washington may wind up doing to try to boost economic growth, it could all be for naught if other countries should take a swan dive at the same time.
Read more: Our fate is in others' hands. 
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