Morgan Stanley’s top investment officer has warned that investors shouldn’t see the bailout of Silicon Valley Bank’s uninsured depositors as a reason to get bullish on stocks, predicting a “vicious” final stretch to the current bear market marked by sharp price declines and few opportunities to hedge portfolios against losses. The lightning-fast collapses of Silicon…
Morgan Stanley Strategist Warns of ‘Vicious’ Bear Market Phase as Bank Turmoil Challenges Investors
March 20, 2023
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Chinese Stocks React Negatively to Xi Jinping’s Third Term
March 17, 2023
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News Analysis On the eve of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) rubber stamp conferences that kicked off on March 3, Chinese A-shares instantly surged, fell in successive days, then hit a one-month low on March 10, the day Xi Jinping was announced as leader of communist China for a third term. On March 10, Shanghai…
Why Tax Stock Buybacks?
March 8, 2023
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Commentary The Biden administration has passed a 1 percent tax on stock buybacks. A stock buyback is when a public company uses its own cash to buy back its own stock. Sometimes it is financially in the best interest of the company to actually borrow money to buy back stock. Democrats dislike stock buybacks because…
How to Protect Your 401(K) From a Stock Market Recession
February 28, 2023
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Retiring with a sizeable retirement fund is something you are looking forward to in the future. Until you retire, you naturally watch your money to ensure it continues to grow. You want to know it is safe, because it is not always guaranteed. Oftentimes, your retirement money is in a 410(k), but even this investment…
The Bear Market Ain’t Over Till It’s Over
February 23, 2023
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Commentary On Feb. 21, the stock market got hit by a freight train. It surprised a lot of people because unlike the groundhog, they were starting to warm up and think the winter in stocks had ended. After all, the people who identify as technical analysts brought out their charts and showed why the market…
Report on Congressional Stock Returns Raises Concerns About Insider Trading in Washington
The average U.S. legislator beat the S&P 500 Index by a wide margin in 2022, with two House representatives earning more than 50 percent for the year, a report reveals. Members of Congress have done quite well in the stock market over a period during which most major equity indexes yielded negative returns. A new…
Bears and Market Volatility Don’t Scare These Investors
By Kim Clark From Kiplinger’s Personal Finance On the morning of Thursday, Oct. 13, as the Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 500 points, a gathering of 370 investors and financial advisers—who were, as a group, losing tens of millions of dollars that very moment—calmly noshed on oatmeal and Danish. “Don’t just do something,…
Millennial Money: Prepping to Buy a Home or Invest in 2023?
December 23, 2022
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It has been quite the year. In 2022, we’ve lived through high inflation, stock market lows, housing market frenzies and ongoing Federal Reserve rate hikes. Although we don’t have a crystal ball to predict what will happen to the economy next year, we could use this year’s events as a guide: Things may continue to…
Forward Returns Will Disappoint Over the Next Decade
Commentary For many investors who started their investing journey following the financial crisis of 2008–09, forward returns will be disappointing compared to the last decade. But it won’t be solely due to high valuations. I recently discussed why the “Next Secular Bear Market” may have started, which touched on the issues of valuations and forward returns. To…
Investing: Nibble at These Core Index Bargains
By Nellie S. Huang From Kiplinger’s Personal Finance When the stock market gets wobbly, we suggest making a shopping list of stocks you can pick up at lower prices. But it’s hard to pull the trigger on shares in a single company if you think prices will fall further. Here’s another idea: Invest some money…
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