Investors flock to US equities Investors worldwide are looking past economic data and coronavirus statistics to seek haven in US equities. Emerging-market equities are the cheapest against the S&P 500 in 12 years, while the MSCI USA Index is near a 20-year high against the rest of the world. Full Story: Bloomberg (tiered subscription model)…
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Investing Facts of Life
Facts of Life Jonathan Clements | April 4, 2020 THE PLOT, THE SCRIPT and the characters may have changed. But we’ve seen this movie before. The current stock market swoon strikes many folks as unprecedented: It’s the frantic financial sideshow to a devastating global tragedy—one that’s seen 1.1 million people fall ill and 60,000 die, with every…
So you think you’re going to jump back in the market after it bottoms out
“The problem with “going to cash” in a crash is that you lock in your losses. Maybe your plan is to jump right back in after the market bottoms? Good luck with that. When markets do turn back up, they do so quickly. As financial planner Kristin McKenna explains here, six of the 10 best…
Take the Investor Literacy Quiz
Female investors are less likely than their male counterparts to be confident about long-term opportunities in U.S. financial markets, about their own investment knowledge and about making investment decisions. That’s according to “Mind The Gap: Women, Men and Investment Knowledge,” new research conducted by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s Investor Education Foundation and George Washington…
You make most of your money in a bear market…
So in March 2020, the Dow and S&P 500 had their worst week since 2008… As famed value investor Shelby Davis observed: “You make most of your money in a bear market; you just don’t realize it at the time.” Advice below is quoted directly from Jason Zweig writing for the WSJ: What Benjamin Graham…
Stock Market Volatility
The wild swings in the financial markets are enough to scare any investor. With huge drops followed by big gains and then further drops… what is an investor to do?First let’s review what’s happening. It is NOT individual investors making buy/sell decisions that drive financial markets. It’s the computerized models of the major investment houses…
Don’t touch that investment portfolio!
Investment expert tells savers not to look at portfolio Investment strategist Joachim Klement is advising retirement savers not to check their 401(k) balances to help prevent them from making poor decisions based on short-term market moves. “Nothing that happens today, tomorrow or over the rest of this year will matter 10 years from now,” he…
Stock market perspective
IS THE STOCK MARKET swoon messing with your head? You don’t want to make this market decline any worse than it has to be. To that end, here are 10 steps that’ll help preserve your sanity and your portfolio:(Quoted directly from Jonathan Clements. Follow Jonathan on Twitter @ClementsMoney and on Facebook. His most recent articles include…
Volatility: Financial markets are going crazy… what to do now
With the wild swings in financial markets, how concerned should you be about your investments?First, remember that any money you expect to need within the next five years should never be invested in the stock market!This is not like the 2008 financial crisis. It’s been an 11 year bull market so too many investors have…
Think you can time the market?
October is notable for the many stock market crashes that occurred in this month. It’s the 90th anniversary of legendary Crash of 1929. The Panic of 1907 and the October 1987 crash are other examples. But the month is not the point. Too many investors think they will cash out then jump back into the…