Personal Finance Daily: 8 strategies to protect your investments

	Personal Finance Daily AUGUST 22, 2012 Wednesday's Personal Finance Stories By MarketWatch Don't miss these top stories: 8 strategies to protect your investments Why your airline miles are easy theft targets How to find the best health info online Robert Powell writes in his Your Portfolio column today that investors might want to consider some strategies to protect their portfolio and gains from the downside risks. Seeking good return of capital and not being fully invested all the time are two options. Read his column today for more, including stop-loss strategies and diversification. Also on MarketWatch today, Kristen Gerencher writes about how the quantity and quality of online health information has grown. She also shares tips on finding the best sources of information and how to use it. You're invited: A MarketWatch Retirement Adviser event Planning to be in the New York area next month? You're invited to a MarketWatch Retirement Adviser special event, "From Retirement Savings to Income," in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 18. Join us for a free breakfast and live panel discussion on the best way to convert your retirement assets into income. MarketWatch senior columnist Robert Powell will moderate the panel of some of the nation's leading retirement experts on which strategy—4% withdrawal, product-allocation with annuities, or time-segmentation—is best for retirement savers and the financial advisers who serve them. Our guest panelists are John Olsen, principal of Olsen Financial Group; David Blanchett, head of retirement research for Morningstar Investment Management; and Farrell Dolan, principal at Farrell Dolan Associates. For details and to make a reservation for this free event, email us at MarketWatchevent@wsj.com . — Anne Stanley , Managing Editor, Personal Finance 8 strategies to protect your investments As the S&P 500 trades close to a four-year high, investors might want to consider these eight strategies to protect their portfolio from the downside risks. 8 strategies to protect your investments Why your airline miles are easy theft targets Cyber crooks take airline miles and redeem them on hotels, cars and merchandise; they also want to send you to phony sites. Why your airline miles are easy theft targets Will short sales hit home prices? Could it be that a new federal program, intended to help distressed homeowners, wipes out recent gains in home prices? Will short sales hit home prices? How to find the best health info online From finding reliable sources to finding health buddies, here are six rules to follow to get the best health information online. How to find the best health info online ECONOMY AND POLITICS Fed minutes show active discussion of QE3 Members of the Federal Reserve got closer to pushing the button for a new round of bond purchases even as a less aggressive step of altering language on a low-rate pledge seems to be in the works, according to minutes from the last meeting released Wednesday. Fed minutes show active discussion of QE3 Sales of existing homes rise 2.3% in July Sales of existing homes in the U.S. rose 2.3% in July, as low mortgage rates, rising rent and some job creation led to a modest rebound, a trade group said Wednesday. Sales of existing homes rise 2.3% in July CBO issues fresh 'fiscal cliff' warning The U.S. economy will contract instead of expanding in 2013 if scheduled tax hikes and spending cuts go into effect in January, the Congressional Budget Office warned on Wednesday. CBO issues fresh 'fiscal cliff' warning Spain vs. ECB: Who will blink first? Investors are salivating over the prospect of bond buys by the European Central Bank to save the euro, but ignore a tense standoff between the ECB and the Spanish government at their peril. Spain vs. ECB: Who will blink first? Can China's stimulus plans really help? Plans by local Chinese governments to spend trillions of yuan on new stimulus projects has ignited debate among economists over whether the schemes will really help the economy. Can China's stimulus plans really help? No pain, no gain: The economic silver lining The best news is hidden in the bad news about Europe, China and the United States, writes Michael Casey. These are all necessary, if painful, elements in a much-needed global rebalancing. No pain, no gain: The economic silver lining INVESTING PayPal, Discover in mobile payment venture PayPal is teaming with credit-card company Discover Financial Services to expand use of the eBay Inc. subsidiary's nascent mobile-payments service from a few thousand merchant locations to potentially seven million by the middle of next year. PayPal, Discover in mobile payment venture May-June correction was a failure For a number of weeks now, contrarian analysis has suggested that the current stock rally is living on borrowed time, and Mark Hulbert reports that recent developments have only reinforced this concern. May-June correction was a failure Fortunes to be made off euro crisis, just not yet Hedge-fund manager Louis Bacon is wrong: There will be fortunes made off the euro crisis, but it won't happen for a couple of years, writes Matthew Lynn. 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