We often talk about the challenges people face when they suddenly become rich. Receiving a cash windfall – from an inheritance or a lottery jackpot, for example, can turn someone’s life upside down in unexpected ways. People who experience a sudden loss of wealth also have their lives turned upside down – their plans for …
Another piece of the investor sentiment puzzle is falling into place to support a major rally in the US stock market. I am referring to an index that measures investors’ confidence that any market decline will soon be followed by a recovery. The index, called the US Buy-on-Dips Confidence Index, was created two decades ago …
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The bond market is now offering investors a bargain, with short to medium maturities offering a good combination of risk and reward. When interest rates rise, bond prices fall. The longer a bond’s maturity, the more sensitive its market value will be to changes in interest rates. This means that as the Federal Reserve continues …
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The official definition of a bear market is a decline of 20% or more from an index’s previous peak. Thus, the three main American stock market indices — the Nasdaq COMP, +1.29%, the S&P 500 SPX, +1.45% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +1.41% – are currently all in a bear market. According to …
Don’t assume the worst is over, says investor Larry McDonald. There is talk of a pivot in Federal Reserve policy as interest rates rise rapidly and stocks continue to fall. Both can continue. McDonald, founder of The Bear Traps Report and author of “A Colossal Failure of Common Sense,” which describes the 2008 bankruptcy of …
