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How to Handle the Market’s Volatility
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... is Covid-19 and its rampaging Delta variant. Supply chain disruptions due to Covid are making it difficult for companies to obtain components for their products. That in turn is making it harder to meet ...
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How to Handle the Market’s Volatility
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... is Covid-19 and its rampaging Delta variant. Supply chain disruptions due to Covid are making it difficult for companies to obtain components for their products. That in turn is making it harder to meet ...
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Where to Invest Now? It's Tricky
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... is running at a 5.4% annual rate, although it could cool down as supply chain bottlenecks related to reopening subside. Junk bonds, issued by lower-quality companies, usually compensate for their riskiness ...
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When Will Stocks Rise Again?
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... the rise of work-from-home companies like Zoom and Amazon, and more recently, the distribution of highly effective vaccines. But since early May, the market's momentum has stalled out: After hitting a ...
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How to Invest for Inflation
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... companies’ costs—everything from wages to materials to borrowing costs. That puts pressure on earnings growth—and fast earnings growth is a core attraction of companies like Netflix, Amazon and Facebook. ...
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Rising Inflation and Interest Rates: What to Do
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... companies, especially those that might pay a dividend. Think insurance companies, banks energy companies, for example. If you need to do selling within taxable accounts, do not delay doing it because ...
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The Stock Market Rotation is Here
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... stocks in general—slower growers with attractive valuations—as well as hospitality, airlines, cruise lines and energy companies. Financials are another promising sector: Banks are reasonably priced and ...
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What the Democrats' Win Means for Stocks
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... markets have been rising in unison so far, I believe the best approach going forward will be to buy stocks of individual companies based on both their long-term prospects and their ability to weather the ...
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Vaccine News Shakes Up the Market
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... health crisis. But what does that news mean for your investments? If you've loaded up on stay-at-home stocks—such as e-commerce, teleconferencing and streaming entertainment companies—it may be time to ...
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President Trump's Coronavirus Diagnosis: Market Impact
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... strengthen the case for social distancing, while sending many students and workers home. What kinds of companies might thrive in this stay-at-home world? The kind that we at Copeland Wealth Management ...
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Raise Cash, Look for Opportunities
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... why I believe it's time to raise cash and look for companies that offer immense value, but that the market has left behind. The bull market that followed the mid-March lows has been led by big companies ...
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Be Very Careful Here
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Something strange is happening in the stock market. While earnings among companies in the S&P 500 index are down 25% this year, the index itself is down just 10%. Meanwhile the broad economy is in ...
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Fear Means Opportunity
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... closing non-essential businesses. That's sent shockwaves through a whole host of industries, from restaurants to car dealers to airlines and convention organizers. It's a good bet that companies' earnings ...
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What to Do Now
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... or reduce production to become more profitable. Yes there will be pain, and highly indebted fracking companies are not the right place to be right now (and neither are cruise companies). But life will ...
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What the Coronavirus Means for Investors
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... That said, there are sure to be short-term losers. Developing Asian countries that rely heavily on trade with China are feeling significant economic pain. And U.S. companies that are especially exposed ...
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The Coming Corporate Debt Cliff
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... So-called growth stocks, which appreciate faster than the general market and usually don't pay dividends, have enjoyed a decade-long bull market. But tech companies and other growth stocks have fueled ...
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Progress in the Trade War
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... and they seek to avoid at all costs. For investors, the trade war has hurt industrial and technology companies. If the U.S. and China are starting to replace tit-for-tat tariffs with incremental ...
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Bond Yields Are Low – So Where Do You Find Income?
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... war and other pressures could hit companies' profits and force them to freeze or lower dividends. The key is to analyze and identify companies that are poised to continue growing their dividend payments ...
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Time to Invest Smarter
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... market is likely to be very volatile for the foreseeable future, and certain types of companies will be hurt by the trade war with China. Those facing pressure include big-box retail companies: Because ...
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Interest Rate Cuts: Too Little Too Late?
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... will realize before long that stocks are overpriced. It'll become particularly clear if companies start missing their projected earnings for this quarter. Investors will start selling, and a correction ...