If you spent December reading or listening to the financial experts making forecasts for the year ahead, you could draw five conclusions about what to expect in 2022. We’ll see heightened inflation, higher interest rates, increased volatility, slower growth and lower investment returns. The specific predictions weren’t uniform or in complete agreement – it’s hard …
Walking my dog through the neighborhood last week, I came upon a friend who gave me his standard greeting for these occasional chance walk-bys: “What do you like in the market right now?” He knows I’m not handing out stock tips, but he usually follows it up by name-dropping, or we’ll spend a few moments …
Janet, a grandmother from New Orleans, wants to give a little something extra this year for the holidays, but doesn’t want to go to the mall to get it. She’s not shopping online for it either. She wants to buy her six grandchildren stock. “I saw something that said that a gift of stock is …
The worst stock market forecast of all time is finally coming true, and for all of its pitfalls, the advice behind the terrible prognostication remains among the best ever given. That strange dichotomy is coming to a head now because the Dow Jones Industrial Average is on the verge of breaking 36,000, and most observers …
Welcome back to the intersection of fear and greed, the place that investors go to at times when stock markets are acting frothy and volatile and/or flirting with new highs. With both of those conditions currently in play, it’s the place where a lot of investors now find themselves. The question is whether they have …
The stock market has more than doubled since pandemic lows in March of 2020. It appears to have learned how to deal with coronavirus better than people have, shaking off every bit of bad news to stay positive and keep rolling despite real concerns. Even as hospitalizations and deaths related to Covid-19 have been climbing …
On Monday [July 19], the stock market had its worst day thus far this year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost roughly 725 points, 2.1 percent, its biggest one-day loss since late October 2020. The Standard & Poor’s 500 lost 1.6 percent for the day; the Nasdaq Composite Index declined about 1.1 percent. It felt …
Investors haven’t been losing money in this stock market, they’ve been losing their minds. They have disconnected with reality and checked into an alternative universe, a land of milk, honey and above-average stock returns. Way above average. According to the latest Global Survey of Individual Investors from Natixis Investment Managers, U.S. retail investors now expect …
