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How to Get Back into the Market
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Last year was a tough one for investors, with stocks and bonds both experiencing bear markets. Now, with markets off to a promising start in 2023, many investors are focused on figuring out which stocks ...
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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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Are stocks finally bouncing back? The S&P 500 index is up about 2.4% in November, and investors are asking whether that signals the end of the bear market. My opinion, as an investment advisor for ...
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Fighting Temptation in a Volatile Market
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The 13-year period through early 2022 was a very lucrative one for investors, with stocks, as measured by the S&P 500 index, returning more than 400% over that time. But since the market's high on ...
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Understanding the Fed’s Rate Hikes and the Market
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... that fact. As volatility occurs, good businesses wind up being sold off alongside bad ones. Market pullbacks can create the opportunity to own great stocks that were recently prohibitively expensive. It's ...
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Better Inflation News Spells Opportunity
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... year in the books, we should see stocks start to perform better. It's highly unlikely that this will be a smooth ride, though, so investors should buckle in. One major headwind for stocks is that the Federal ...
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Is the Next Stock Market Catalyst Taking Shape?
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In last month’s blog, I explained that good news on inflation could serve as the catalyst to break stocks out of their long slump. Well, the latest inflation data, issued on July 13, are the opposite ...
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When Will Stocks Get Back in the Black?
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... bad news, stocks that can potentially deliver robust appreciation over many years are effectively on sale. Market selloffs are indiscriminate: Scared investors tend to sell off their quality stocks along ...
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What the Crashes of Netflix and Facebook Tell Us
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Netflix and Facebook were two powerhouse stocks during the pandemic, rising 100% and 38% respectively between early 2020 and the Fall of 2021. But in recent months, each has fallen hard: As of April 22, ...
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Market Turmoil Brings Buying Opportunities
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... the tech-heavy NASDAQ Composite index has plunged more than 12%, bringing the index into correction territory. Technology stocks have fallen especially far because they had flown the highest in recent ...
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A Bad Time to Be Over-Diversified
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... over time while keeping you on track to meet your growth goals. Then there's what we call di-worse-ification, a situation where an investment portfolio has so many stocks that the result is unnecessary ...
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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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... a high of $69,000 in November, for example. Why is crypto so volatile? It doesn't have inherent value like gold, which can be made into jewelry or put to other uses, or stocks, which represent shares ...
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Higher Interest Rates Could Hammer Stocks
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... overheated economy and start to bring prices of goods and services back down. But what effect would rate hikes have on stocks? While there are many variables, it's quite conceivable that stock prices could ...
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Time to Make a Shopping List
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... infrastructure bill all weighing on investors' minds, there's no immediate turnaround in sight. But the best thing long-term investors can do right now is to stay positive. Stocks' ups and downs are ...
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How to Handle the Market’s Volatility
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... for stocks to decline during the fall, but it's starting a little earlier this year. I expect the bumpy ride to continue, possibly for a few more quarters. There are always multiple factors in market disruptions; ...
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How to Handle the Market’s Volatility
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... for stocks to decline during the fall, but it's starting a little earlier this year. I expect the bumpy ride to continue, possibly for a few more quarters. There are always multiple factors in market disruptions; ...
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Where to Invest Now? It's Tricky
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... trading at a 5% premium. Meanwhile, stocks are expensive. Those in the S&P 500 index are trading at about 35 times their earnings, compared with their historical average of around 16. Growth stocks ...
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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 ...
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How to Invest for Inflation
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... First of all, inflation helps to explain why tech and other high-flying “growth” stocks have had a rough year. Rising inflation is seen as a headwind for stocks generally because it increases ...