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How to Invest This Election Year
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... rates, and it's widely believed that the Federal Reserve is done raising rates and will start cutting them in 2024. As for new investments, there's plenty of opportunity, and many companies could become ...
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We're Not Out of the Woods
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... S&P 500 index has risen in the fourth quarter 80% of the time. And they point to recent indications from the Federal Reserve, which has raised interest rates from nothing to 5.5% over the past year ...
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Here’s Why I’m a “No” on Annuities
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... years in 2022, and they haven't been stellar this year either. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates aggressively, fueling recession fears. Both factors have made annuities, with their ...
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Improving Bond Yields and the Case for Rebalancing
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... And with interest rates low for much of last year, bonds provided very little if anything in the way of yield. Things look a lot different this year. Yields on all types of fixed income are way up, thanks ...
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Five Predictions for 2023
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This past year has been one to forget—a bear market for stocks, the worst year ever for bonds, and raging inflation and rising interest rates to top it off. Will 2023 be better? While no one can predict ...
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Putting the Market’s Drama in Context
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... after all, seemed to be a winning formula. That approach won't work going forward. The economy is slowing down and low interest rates—a rising tide that lifted all boats as far as stocks are concerned—are ...
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Fighting Temptation in a Volatile Market
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... 17% year to date. And there's still a lot of uncertainty ahead as the Fed continues raising interest rates to fight four-decade-high inflation. So what should investors do? The first step is to zoom ...
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Better Inflation News Spells Opportunity
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... Reserve plans more aggressive interest-rate increases as it continues to fight inflation. All eyes will be on next month's meeting of the Fed's policy-setting committee. Will the Fed raise interest rates ...
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When Will Stocks Get Back in the Black?
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... of a vaccine to fight a pandemic. The catalysts that I'm looking for currently are signs that inflation has peaked and that interest rates have stabilized. I don't expect either of those soon. Interest ...
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For Investors, the Shoe Has Dropped
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The stock market has looked at higher inflation and rising interest rates, and to say that it doesn't like what it sees would be an understatement. Since the beginning of the year, the S&P 500 index ...
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What the Crashes of Netflix and Facebook Tell Us
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... high-flying stocks. The reasons for the fall of Netflix and Facebook—now called Meta-have to do with their growth prospects against a backdrop of rising interest rates. To help tame surging inflation, ...
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Market Turmoil Brings Buying Opportunities
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... rates, which are seen as particularly harmful for such businesses. Predictably, work-from-home companies have been crushed by a combination of interest-rate fears and workers returning to the office—Zoom's ...
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A Bad Time to Be Over-Diversified
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... stance. It's expected to raise interest rates and wind down the bond purchases that have been propping up the economy and the markets. As a consequence, we're moving into an environment in which it will ...
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A Big Market Shift is Underway
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... stocks during the pandemic, and signaling that it will soon begin raising interest rates as well, investors have begun to rotate away from speculative stocks and toward quality names. The stay-at-home ...
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Why I Don't Invest in Crypto
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... interest rates, control inflation and support the economy. A competing currency would undercut the authority that governments derive from controlling their currencies. Even though governments around ...
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Higher Interest Rates Could Hammer Stocks
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... Should that pattern continue, it would likely prompt the Federal Reserve to raise short-term interest rates. Tightening the money supply—or in plain English, making money more expensive—could cool the ...
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How to Handle the Market’s Volatility
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... two of investors' current concerns are the financial troubles of the giant Chinese property company Evergrande and the fear that capital gains tax rates will rise next year. But my longer-term concern ...
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How to Handle the Market’s Volatility
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... two of investors' current concerns are the financial troubles of the giant Chinese property company Evergrande and the fear that capital gains tax rates will rise next year. But my longer-term concern ...
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Where to Invest Now? It's Tricky
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... interest rates makes them potentially dangerous. When interest rates rise, bond prices fall. Then there's the threat of prolonged inflation, which eats into the value of bonds' interest payments. Inflation ...
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When Will Stocks Rise Again?
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... substantial rise in stocks has been created by a catalyst, from falling interest rates to technological advances to stock prices declining to cheap levels. Right now most stocks, especially technology ...