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Don’t Gamble With Your Retirement
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Looking for an investing shortcut that will change your life? You've got plenty of company. Especially when we hear about things like hot stocks or genius fund managers or soaring cryptocurrencies, it's ...
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What the Crashes of Netflix and Facebook Tell Us
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... it will lose two million more during the second quarter. Most analysts had expected the streaming company to add nearly 20 million net subscribers this year. As for Meta, its shares crashed by 26% on Feb. ...
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Market Turmoil Brings Buying Opportunities
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... seen their prices fall as well. Apple's P/E ratio has dipped from 32 to 27. Meta—the company behind Facebook, saw its P/E ratio fall from 24 at the end of last year to less than 16 recently. Amazon, which ...
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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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The Stock Market Rotation is Here
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... 70 times the company's earnings, and Apple is trading at 31 times. Compare that with big Dow Industrials names UnitedHealth, trading at 22 times earnings, and Goldman Sachs, at a mere 13.5. Having ridden ...
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What to Know About the Short-Squeeze Trend
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... course of a few days. In the most recent example of the trend, shares of cannabis company Tilray more than doubled, to $64. In all of these cases, the stocks' run has resembled a toddler's sugar rush, ...
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Raise Cash, Look for Opportunities
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... agree that a lot of the big names out there are way too expensive right now. Zoom, the videoconferencing company, is up over 200%. Facebook is up more than 50% since mid-March. AstraZeneca, which is working ...
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Fear Means Opportunity
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... based on expected earnings will be flying blind. But you don't necessarily need to know what a company's earnings will be in the next quarter or two to know that it's worth investing in. The key is to ...
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Bond Yields Are Low – So Where Do You Find Income?
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... Airlines' holding company, which is yielding 1.7% and up nearly 4%. For something that may be completely different, income hunters might consider investing directly in real estate. Drawing on my own ...
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Reaching Your Goals Vs. Spinning Your Wheels
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... spending and maximize your savings. And with that savings, he or she can help you achieve superior investment returns. Vanguard, the mutual fund company, estimates that investors who work with an advisor ...
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Understanding What Drives the Market
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... Catalysts can be short-term. When President Trump has taken swipes at tech companies, the sector has dipped, at least for short periods. A surprisingly good quarter of earnings can send a company's stock ...
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How to React to the Market’s Ups and Downs
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... company, were two stocks on my buy list that fell into my price range because of the market selloff. Again, selective buying, not nilly-willy trading, is vital. You should always work with a qualified, ...
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Seeking Diamonds in the Rough for 2018
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... An experienced advisor can cherry-pick the best opportunities based not just on price and dividend yield, but on underlying data about a company's strengths and weaknesses, their leadership, their market ...
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How to Invest for Natural Disasters
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... fell by 26%. Investors feared that damage from the hurricane’s projected path, up the east coast of the state, would bury the company under expensive claims. But there was a case to be made for buying ...
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How to Invest for Natural Disasters
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... fell by 26%. Investors feared that damage from the hurricane’s projected path, up the east coast of the state, would bury the company under expensive claims. But there was a case to be made for buying ...
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Why ETFs Shouldn’t Dominate Your Portfolio
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... by chipmaker AMD were soaring up and down without any apparent rhyme or reason. There were no major changes in the company's condition or sales outlook. Eventually I learned that the price fluctuation ...
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Do You Need Longevity Insurance?
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... that you will live past age 85. If you don't, the insurance company keeps your money—your heirs don't get any of it. What's more, the lump sum you invest in longevity insurance today won't be available ...
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Where to Buy in an Expensive Market
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... price has created a high dividend yield—currently 4.35%. More importantly, Target also has a high return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is a key longer-term measure of a company’s profitability—it ...
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Can Hurricanes Create Investment Opportunity?
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... often reap significant rewards when the deals occur. Among the insurers that we've been watching closely is Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc. (ticker: UVE). The company specializes in insuring properties ...