Options traders are confident that Dell can hang on to recent gains and steam even higher in the next month and a half.

Question: I’m 29 and I contribute 12% of my 9,000 annual pay to my 401(k). My company matches 100% up to the first 6% of salary I save. I’m concerned, though, that I could give up a lot of my 401(k) to taxes after I retire, so I’m considering diverting some of my 401(k) contributions to a Roth IRA account each year. Do you think that’s a good idea and, if so, how much do you think I should be putting into the Roth? –Eric, Newark, NJ

If the gold bull market unfolds the way the one did 30 years ago, the metal gets much more expensive. Ride the bull with Barrick.

The aerospace and defense outfit vows to get its latest jet airplane into a test flight by year end. The stock is a buy.

Ken Kamen, president of Mercadien Asset Management, has a simple goal: to help investors understand the big picture. “The more time people spend looking at the leaves of the tree, the more they miss the forest,” he says.

More than a half-million option ARMs — mortgages with low initial payments that can rise sharply later — are scheduled to be reset in the next four years.

Maybe the bear market ended your early-retirement dreams. Or you found out that your parents’ nest egg is nearly gone. Or you just didn’t think you could lose that much, that quickly. You’re angry. Especially if there was a “financial adviser” — what everybody used to call a broker — getting paid along the way.

Airlines are again turning more attention to customers who travel most often, increasingly offering them incentives like double-mile awards.

Real college students share their financial concerns.

Keep your banking fees low by joining a college credit union.