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 […]
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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 […]
With U.S. stocks off more than 7% and the bond market down almost 9% so far this year, many investors seem to feel they have to take more risk to catch up. In fact, you should take less. In unforgiving markets, it’s harder to recover from mistakes. Over the past […]
Text size E-commerce sales have slowed as consumers have returned to shopping in stores. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Heading into the latest earnings season, there was optimism on Wall Street that the tech giants would save the day. No other companies seemed better positioned to deal with the myriad issues plaguing […]