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online.barrons.com — As gold fails to provide traditional protection, hedge GLD positions.

online.barrons.com — Ground zero of the crisis gripping the financial world is Europe, but the fallout is being felt in the U.S. financial sector. So, to benefit or gain protection from Europe's festering economic crisis, buy put options on the Select Sector Financial SPDR exchange-traded fund (ticker: XLF). The ETF, made up of major U.S.

online.barrons.com — Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story mischaracterized H Partners' role in the planned departure of Sealy's CEO. Something surprising is going on in the American bedroom. In droves, people are outfitting their beds with a plush, squishy, and decidedly controversial type of mattress.

online.barrons.com — As a child, Harry Winston famously spotted an emerald ring in a pawn shop, paid 25 cents for it, and resold the gem for $800. With an eye for things that sparkle, Winston, the New York-born son of Ukrainian immigrants, went on to outfit starlets and jetsetters with some of the largest and most-storied diamonds of the world, including the 45-carat Hope Diamond which he donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958.

online.barrons.com — Urban Outfitters stock is rising nicely in reaction to Monday's fiscal first-quarter earnings report. But the stock's story is so nuanced that it begs to be monetized in the options market. Shares are down 10% in the past month, and are off about 5% this year, which makes Urban Outfitters (ticker: URBN) an attractive stock against which to sell calls or puts.

online.barrons.com — The Nasdaq Stock Market's failure to launch Facebook's initial public offering smoothly is the worst electronic trading failure since the May 2010 flash crash and is raising the ire of investors who feel sandbagged by the social-network's hyped IPO.

online.barrons.com — It's hard to imagine anyone navigating the rough seas of the past decade more ably than Ray Dalio, master and commander of money-management firm Bridgewater Associates, which oversees $120 billion for a roster of global clients that include foreign governments, pension funds and endowments.

online.barrons.com — The Nasdaq Stock Market's failure to launch Facebook's initial public offering smoothly is the worst electronic trading failure since the May 2010 flash crash and is raising the ire of investors who feel sandbagged by the social-network's hyped IPO.

online.barrons.com — The most hyped IPO in history is turning into a disaster for Facebook and Wall Street underwriters as Facebook shares have fallen this morning by $4, or 10%, to $34.23, appreciably below the offering price of $38.

online.barrons.com — With investors willing to pay up for stocks that generate income, more companies are converting to real-estate investment trusts. The REIT plays include American Tower, SBA Communications, Equinix, Digital Realty Trust, Iron Mountain, Corrections Corp. of America, GEO Group, and a Cincinnati Bell unit called Cyrus One.