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How to Invest This Election Year
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... overweighted in your portfolio right now. And given their inflated prices, they could do a nosedive during the periods of volatility and set you back significantly. In my view, small- and mid-cap stocks ...
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Tax-Loss Selling is Losing its Luster
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... Traditionally, the massive year-end selling to harvest tax losses has led to lower security prices. Once the new year begins, the names that sold off in December—and are now cheap—have become buying targets. ...
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We're Not Out of the Woods
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... Then there are the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. The latter could result in higher oil prices, and both present a real danger of spreading to involve additional countries. The current ...
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Why You Should Be Invested Right Now
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... to periods of appreciation, and vice-versa. Trying to guess means you will likely sell when prices are low and buy when they are high. It's easy to make emotional, short-term decisions if you invest ...
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“Sell in May Go Away” is Not the Way
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... that companies have jacked up their prices and then some. And while businesses' costs—for things like raw materials and labor—have started coming down, they're not passing those savings on to customers. ...
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How to Get Back into the Market
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... of risk. To populate your portfolio, your advisor can then recommend specific stocks, bonds and other investments that have the most favorable prices, business outlooks and other qualities. If you've ...
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Five Predictions for 2023
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... help push inflation down: supply chains that are steadily recovering from their Covid-era slowdowns. Recovering supply chains are one reason lumber prices, for example, have fallen far from their record ...
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Putting the Market’s Drama in Context
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... companies, but it's turned some stocks into bargains. For example, shares of specific high-quality companies that pay strong dividends are now available at attractive prices. By selling some investments ...
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Understanding the Fed’s Rate Hikes and the Market
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... consumer prices up 8.3% from a year earlier, worse than the forecast of 8.1%. Inflation didn't jump by 9.1% or 8.5% as it had in the prior two months, but the result it was disappointing given that gasoline ...
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Better Inflation News Spells Opportunity
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... happening currently is that commodity prices are continuing to fall and, based on my own observations at the grocery store, prices of consumer staples are falling too. So with an ugly first half of the ...
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Is the Next Stock Market Catalyst Taking Shape?
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... of good news: Consumer prices rose more than 9% on an annualized basis in June, the worst reading in 41 years. But something interesting is happening. While the official data are still ...
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When Will Stocks Get Back in the Black?
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... established companies that are generating profits are free of that trap. The opportunity to buy shares of great companies at low prices is pretty exciting. But it's also a little scary, particularly ...
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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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Higher Interest Rates Could Hammer Stocks
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Inflation is back. U.S. consumer prices rose 6.2% year-over-year in October, the steepest increase in more than 30 years, as a flood of cheap money surging met consumer demand and supply chain bottlenecks. ...
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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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When Will Stocks Rise Again?
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... substantial rise in stocks has been created by a catalyst, from falling interest rates to technological advances to stock prices declining to cheap levels. Right now most stocks, especially technology ...
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How to Invest for Inflation
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After years of ultra-low inflation, costs are rising at their fastest rate since 2008. The poster child this time around is lumber, where prices have risen more than 85% this year and 280% in the past ...
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Rising Inflation and Interest Rates: What to Do
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... spurring price inflation. In March, consumer prices rose .6%, their biggest gain since 2012. Accelerating inflation, meanwhile, is pushing long-term bond rates higher. Essentially, the bond market is ...
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Raise Cash, Look for Opportunities
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... in tech, communications and healthcare – sectors that were seen as good bets during a time of uncertainty. But having piled in and driven up prices, investors had already started rotating out prior to ...
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Be Very Careful Here
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... rally that's taken place since the crash back in March. Don't worry if you've been on the sidelines; you'll still have a chance to make money. Prices will fall eventually because rationality will win out. ...