Despite 13 years of slow growth, two recessions, the bursting of the dot-com bubble and the financial crisis, earnings on U.S. stocks have increased by 85 percent since 2000.
Learning how to invest will make a major difference in every aspect of life from where one chooses to live and raise kids to when to retire. Now, more than ever, black Americans need to be financially educated.
Certainly, recent gains are a sign of hope, but with every bull market comes a fair amount of hype as well. Before you plunge head-first into volatile markets, consider the following reasons to be a little skeptical about these recent market rallies.
There is no doubt that "defensive" equities have increasingly become substitutes for bonds, especially for yield-starved investors. However, we are now seeing that there is danger in taking this approach to the extreme.
NEW YORK (AP) — A series of weak reports on the U.S. economy is sending the stock market sharply lower. The Dow Jones industrial aver...
Dividends are yet another way the super-rich accumulate wealth and residual income. Any investor can prosper through owning stocks. All wealth is taught; alas not traditionally through our current education system.
I'm not managing a zillion bucks in a hedge fund, so it's easy for me to say, but it's the stock market, not a romantic comedy. You gotta take the ups with the downs.
What's an investor to do, when confronted with all this conflicting advice? It's simple: Ignore it.
Economic forecasters exist to make astrologers look good. But the recent jubilance is enough to make even weather forecasters blush. "Just look at the bull market! Look at home prices! Look at consumer confidence!"
NEW YORK (AP) — Stock prices closing sharply lower on Wall Street after a late afternoon sell-off. The Dow Jones industrial average e...
The Dow recently rose above 15,000 for the first time. The S&P 500 has also risen into uncharted territory. It's coming. Since the lows of 2009, the market has more than doubled in value. It's coming. The market is going to fall.
While the right wing embarrasses itself with dire warnings of hyperinflation and conspiracies to manipulate economic indicators, the rest of us enjoy a solid economic expansion.
If you lose 50 percent of your nest egg and then earn back 20 percent annually, you'll still be down almost 15 percent because it takes twice as long to crawl back to even when you lose that much money.
I guess what makes your advice "amazing" is that it is coming from a Wall Street insider. If investors followed this sage counsel, there would be no need for "investment strategists." More to the point, the brokerage industry as we know it would collapse.
NEW YORK, May 28 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks advanced on Tuesday, with the Dow ending at yet another record closing high, in the wake of Wall Street's fir...
U.S. investors have brushed off a scary overnight collapse in Japan's stock market. But there's a warning in Tokyo's trouncing that shouldn't be ignor...
* Dow, S&P both rise and fall more than 1 pct in same trading day * FOMC minutes show members open to tapering, disagreement on c...
Regardless of our dreams, we still must contend with the uncertainty of whether we will live one decade or three decades in retirement (the more the better in my view), as well as whether our family will need our financial support or whether we will need theirs.
The economic news is mixed, and corporate profits are so-so. Housing is mixed, and so are reports of consumer spending. So why is the stock market soaring to new highs on a regular basis?
Before the Big Bust happens, here are a few cautionary words for the hoi polloi: One of the reasons for the existence of the stock market is to provide a casino for gambling and for the movement of capital from the pockets of small gambler "investors" to the pockets of big gambler "investors."
NEW YORK, May 17 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks continued their climb into uncharted territory on Friday, racking up the fourth week of gains in a row as e...
NEW YORK — The stock market marched back into record territory Tuesday as investors seized on the latest encouraging news about the economy. Thi...
The bottom line is, people are not willing to be cuckold again, and so they are very, very reluctant to trust, particularly those same companies that hurt them. One can hardly blame them (us). So here's my prescription for restoring a healthy relationship between businesses and the public.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mary Jo White, is on board with calls for a broad review of the framework of ...
There has been a lot of talk about a rebound in the equity and real estate markets helped along by the Fed's free money. That much is for sure the truth; but the evidence of a viable and sustainable recovery built on free-market forces just isn't there.
