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In case you missed them, here are the top 10 videos that appeared on MarketWatch for the week of July 26-30:

In case you missed them, here are the top 10 Personal Finance stories from MarketWatch for the week of July 26-July 30:

The 2011 Mercedes Benz E550 Cabriolet in unruffled by Mother Nature and you get the feeling it will handle anything that you can throw at it on the road. But the great engineering doesn’t come cheap.

The 2011 Ford Explorer truly is all new, and not just in the Detroit sense of the term. The 2011 will have a unitized body instead of the old truck-like body-on-frame. How many consumers do you think care about that, I wonder?

In the financial world, Option is a financial instrument that gives the owner the right but not the responsibility for the transaction of his/her assets. The underlying is a stock, futures contract. The option to buy something is called a call, and the option to sell is known as…

So you’re either new to stock market investing or have been burned by hanging onto more aggressive stocks and are now looking for safety. The stock market is generally not perceived as a safe investment strategy for the short term, but over time many have done well who can afford to hang in for months and years. Part of a prudent approach requires selecting some company stocks that are not so high risk. How do you find them?

For anyone who has either never invested in the stock market or is a bit squeamish over past results, you don’t need to avoid this financial building strategy. Instead, take your time, develop a workable plan, and approach your investments cautiously. Once you’ve built some experience (and success!), that’s when you can add more risk to your portfolio.

Living through a difficult economy, it becomes tempting to not only abandon safer investment options (e.g. savings accounts, CD’s, etc.), but also to jump into riskier choices in the hope of striking it big. That approach is ok if you have disposable income which you can afford to potentially lose. However, if you really want to invest successfully in the stock market, it first requires learning some basic and prudent strategies.

The stock market represents a profitable source of income for some people, while for others, many things remain unknown. How can I begin a trading career?

If the government has to change Social Security, people may need to put aside a lot more money to make up for any reduction in benefits.

The U.S. stock market is likely to continue pulling risk on and off the table in the days ahead, with another heavy round of earnings reports in store, along will a full slate of data on the economy, employment in particular.

Americans won’t be spectators in China’s coming changes — we will be deeply involved, whether we like it or not, writes Howard Gold.

Tripling your investments in the stock market can be easily done if you trade penny stocks which are set to trend. Without the time or experience to devote towards trading, you should consider one reliable method which more traders are turning to these days than any other to trade penny stocks.

Tripling your investments in the stock market can be easily done if you trade penny stocks which are set to trend. Without the time or experience to devote towards trading, you should consider one reliable method which more traders are turning to these days than any other to trade penny stocks.

Investment opportunities in the stock market are seemingly innumerable. However, experiencing success requires much more than blindly selecting a stock and hoping for the best. You need to invest time for research and develop a strategic plan of attack.