Filed under: People , Personal Finance Just Missed Millions: People Who Left Early Jobs At Billion-Dollar Companies originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-05-17T15:50:00Z. Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: Market News As Facebook thunders toward its IPO, the 33 banks tasked with underwriting the offering have been desperately trying to determine how much the social networking website is actually worth. While it is closing in on 900 million users, its rate of growth has slowed and its current advertising model seems to be hitting a snag.

Filed under: Investing , ETFs Everywhere you look, new exchange-traded funds are popping up. Many people think they’re a must-have for a successful portfolio. But even though investors have poured more than $1 trillion into ETFs, the question remains: Do you really need them?

Filed under: JC Penney , Apple , Target Corp , Retail , Secret Shopper Nancy Pietschnig wasn’t at all excited when she first heard about J.C. Penney’s ( JCP ) plan to ditch most of their hundreds of annual sale events, dump their coupons, and just offer lower prices every day, with only a handful of regularly spaced sales a year.

Industrial activity is down. Retail spending and investment are down. Trade is weaker than expected.