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A Big Market Shift is Underway
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... the cost of borrowing. Thus, the long-term earnings potential of companies like Tesla or Peloton become less appealing when interest rates climb. The tech-heavy NASDAQ index is down 7% since early November, ...
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Why I Don't Invest in Crypto
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... cryptocurrencies are wildly volatile. In the longer term, they carry heavy regulatory risk—governments around the world very well might pull the rug out from under crypto. First, let's look at crypto's ...
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Higher Interest Rates Could Hammer Stocks
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... could reverse the employment recovery. The markets' actions reflect a belief that the Fed will indeed start raising rates by the middle of 2022. That's a long way off, and a lot could change. But it's ...
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Time to Make a Shopping List
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... infrastructure bill all weighing on investors' minds, there's no immediate turnaround in sight. But the best thing long-term investors can do right now is to stay positive. Stocks' ups and downs are ...
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How to Handle the Market’s Volatility
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... two of investors' current concerns are the financial troubles of the giant Chinese property company Evergrande and the fear that capital gains tax rates will rise next year. But my longer-term concern ...
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How to Handle the Market’s Volatility
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... two of investors' current concerns are the financial troubles of the giant Chinese property company Evergrande and the fear that capital gains tax rates will rise next year. But my longer-term concern ...
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Where to Invest Now? It's Tricky
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... interest rates makes them potentially dangerous. When interest rates rise, bond prices fall. Then there's the threat of prolonged inflation, which eats into the value of bonds' interest payments. Inflation ...
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Will Biden Double the Capital Gains Rate?
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New tax legislation is taking shape in Washington, and business owners, farmers and wealthy investors have been paying close attention to reports that the long-term capital gains tax rate could be essentially ...
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How to Invest for Inflation
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... throughout 2021 and maybe longer, in large part because of the $7 trillion in pandemic stimulus money the federal government has pumped into the economy. Likewise, I think the rotation from growth stocks ...
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Rising Inflation and Interest Rates: What to Do
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If you follow the news, you know that inflation is rising, and so are long-term interest rates. It's been so long since both of those things happened, in a significant, long-term way, that many people ...
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The Stock Market Rotation is Here
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... the long rally had left behind. The major market indexes tell the story: From February 24 through March 8, the tech-heavy Nasdaq was down 7.3%, and the S&P 500, whose biggest components include Apple, ...
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What to Know About the Short-Squeeze Trend
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... at the expense of amateurs. You can be sure they are raptly following the message boards alongside the do-it-yourselfers, perhaps even participating in them with an eye toward "pump-and-dump" schemes. ...
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What the Democrats' Win Means for Stocks
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... markets have been rising in unison so far, I believe the best approach going forward will be to buy stocks of individual companies based on both their long-term prospects and their ability to weather the ...
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Vaccine News Shakes Up the Market
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... and Apple are sitting on hordes of cash that they can deploy anytime. While they may lose momentum in the short-term, they're still good long-term investments. Meanwhile, it's worth looking carefully ...
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President Trump's Coronavirus Diagnosis: Market Impact
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... uncertain how effective it will be, how quickly it will be distributed, and what percentage of people will take it. Consumers have been frightened for a long time, and even after airlines, cruise lines, ...
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Capital Gains Tax Hike a Possibility
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... In particular, tax reform is a major part of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's plans. And one of his most ambitious proposals involves raising the long-term capital gains tax rate for households ...
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Raise Cash, Look for Opportunities
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... debt stay in business and make a profit. I'd even look at airlines here, not as long-term investments but as short-term, opportunistic plays. Southwest Airlines stock, for example, has lost more almost ...
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Be Very Careful Here
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... lots of debt, and most real estate. And while some badly beaten down stocks in the airline and hospitality industries may bounce back over the long term, there is very, very little visibility into the ...
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Fear Means Opportunity
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... switched to long-distance learning. It stands to reason that a good chunk of that government relief money will be spent on on iPads and other technology that facilitates distance learning. Meanwhile, ...
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What the Coronavirus Means for Investors
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... points on January 31 amid fears that the Chinese slowdown would affect U.S. businesses. How concerned should you be about your investments? For the long term, not very. Wall Street analysts estimate ...