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GameStop saga isn’t a tale of ‘the market’

March 3, 2021 by admin

You’ve probably heard the investing adage that “It’s not a stock market, it’s a market of stocks.” The idea is that when the market is described with adjectives like “jittery,” “booming,” “steady” or “volatile,” the experience in any individual issue may vary dramatically from that broad, average depiction. Indexes are useful barometers for the market …

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8 things buy-and-holders can learn from traders

February 24, 2021 by admin

You don’t have to be a trader to be affected by them, and these days the chances that you will be are growing. A combination of factors are driving that: heightened interest in and trading action around “story stocks,” fewer stocks to trade, easy access to trading tools creating more active investors and more. Throughout …

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Avoid the retribution that comes from ‘revenge spending’

February 18, 2021 by admin

You can’t get revenge against the pandemic, no matter how much money you spend. Yet as we get closer to a time when people feel they can return to a more normal life, there has been plenty of talk about how they will break loose with their money. For people still feeling like they are …

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Market action raises questions; here are answers

February 11, 2021 by admin

The action surrounding GameStop stock, the Robinhood trading app and short-selling in general have raised questions in the minds of many investors. Here are a few of them that were sent my way. From Paul in Seattle: Settle an argument between me and my son. He started investing using Robinhood. I have been invested for …

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Investors get lessons, not profits, from GameStop frenzy

February 3, 2021 by admin

For the first time in their lives, my daughters last week wished they had been into video games when they were kids. Had that been their interest, their stock portfolios might have included GameStop shares. “And now we’d be rich,” my oldest daughter, said in a group text with me and her younger sister, imagining …

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A K-shaped recovery isn’t ‘special’ for everyone

January 31, 2021 by admin

In the alphabet soup of typical economic recoveries – think V-shaped, or W, Z, U and L – the one thing that’s common to the ending is that, for better or worse, everyone comes out together, at the same spot in the curve. The Covid-19 economy, however, is creating a K-shaped recovery, and it’s growing …

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How you win from losing this week’s big lotteries

January 20, 2021 by admin

So you missed out on the $865 million Mega Millions jackpot on Tuesday. I know, because you’re here reading this. You’re not beating the 1-in-292 million odds and winning the $730-plus million Powerball jackpot being drawn Wednesday, either. Some things don’t change in the middle of a global pandemic, like your lottery luck or the …

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Despite turmoil, keep betting on America

January 13, 2021 by admin

Steve in Daytona Beach Shores, Fla., a self-described patriot, says that after watching the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, he wondered for the first time in his adult life if he should “Invest American.” Throughout his decades as an investor, Steve has tried to buy American and invest in domestic companies. His …

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‘Keep the change’ — done right — can be a life-changer

January 7, 2021 by admin

I changed the way I “keep the change” in 2020, and it paid off bigger and better than expected. At a time when multiple studies show that just four in 10 American adults could cover the cost of a $1,000 emergency room visit or car repair using savings – and with people understanding more than …

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Dive into the dead pool: 2020’s mutual fund crypt

January 4, 2021 by admin

(This column was released for publication on Dec. 30, 2020.) In a year filled with entirely too much death, no one should mourn the passing of a mutual fund. Funds and ETFs don’t deserve your grief. They’re useful tools, not friends or loved ones, even when they help you succeed. Hundreds of them die every …

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