The stock market is gyrating like a yoyo, and with each down stroke it’s heading lower. What’s an investor to do? Let’s start by dissecting the cause-it’s not as simple as a slowdown in housing or defaults in the subprime market, and these are unrelated (for the most part) events. The housing market was headed [...]
There’s an old adage in the brokerage community that you should speculate for growth, not for income. Speculation isn’t the right word, but the broker who coined it (pun intended) probably wasn’t an English major (most brokers aren’t). The point is that you should take risk with investments which you expect to increase in value, [...]
The recent events in the stock and bond markets drew everyone’s attention. No doubt you took a look at your investments and, perhaps, worried about one or two. Maybe, you made some changes to your portfolio. Let’s take a look at your experience and see if there are some lessons to be learned. Did you [...]