For two years, the stock market has been largely able to ignore the lived reality of Americans during the pandemic — the mounting coronavirus cases, the loss of lives and livelihoods, the lockdowns — because of underlying policies that kept it buoyant. Investors can now say goodbye to all that. […]
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The emergence of omicron has kept global markets on tenterhooks, struggling to process the little, often contradictory information on the new COVID-19 variant. But analysts at US investment bank JP Morgan say it won’t be a bad idea for investors to take advantage of last Friday’s sharp fall in share […]
The stock market finally got its bounce. After dipping its proverbial toes into bear market territory, the Morningstar US Market Index rallied 6.5% in the past week. While that’s good news for battered stock portfolios, equities are still down 13.4% this year. Another piece of good news is that bond […]
Investors have been forced to rethink nearly all of their assumptions in the past two years. In this unusually tumultuous span, the world has seen a deadly pandemic, the quickest global economic recession and rebound in memory, unprecedented monetary- and fiscal-policy contortions, supply-chain disarray, armed conflict in Europe with nuclear […]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined for a sixth consecutive session Thursday, extending a streak of volatility in a market driven by worries that the Federal Reserve will hamper growth in its effort to bring inflation under control. The blue-chip index fell 103.81 points, or 0.3%, to 31730.30. The S&P […]
Days of record market losses may inspire 401(k) investors to take action. Yet most experts caution against doing just that. The reason: Days when the markets are down tend to be closely followed by days when the market is up. If you sell and run for cover now, you may […]