Given today’s challenging markets and unprecedented economic circumstances, a midyear review of your investments and wealth plan takes on a heightened sense of urgency this year. Stock prices are down, interest rates are up, the pandemic is still lurking and inflation hovers at a four-decade high. Add the looming retirement for many boomers, as well…
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Here’s how best to play the market for the rest of 2022: Don’t look. I offer this advice not because I believe the bear market will continue — though of course it could. I would offer the same advice if I thought the next leg of the bull market is about to begin. The reason…
The first half of 2022 has been a historically bad stretch for markets, and the carnage hasn’t been limited to stocks. As stocks and bonds have sold off in tandem, investors who for years have relied on the 60-40 portfolio – named because it involves holding 60% of one’s assets in stocks, and the remaining…
US stocks just cemented their worst start to a year in more than half a century. But as the slowdown in the US economy becomes increasingly difficult to ignore, the market for high-yield corporate bonds – often referred to as “junk bonds,” a Wall Street sobriquet for the debt of companies with less-than-stellar credit ratings…
Hi! In this week’s ETF Wrap, you’ll get a look at where the money has flowed in the first half of 2022 and which areas are being fled by investors. For example, high-yield bond ETFs may wind up with their biggest outflows on record for the first six months of a year, according to Matthew…
NEW YORK (Project Syndicate) —The global financial and economic outlook for the year ahead has soured rapidly in recent months, with policy makers, investors, and households now asking how much they should revise their expectations, and for how long. That depends on the answers to six questions. Six questions First, will the rise in inflation…
Investors and traders attempting to navigate one of the most treacherous periods in financial markets in years are all but sure to face more volatility during the second half of this year. One major reason is that few seem to be prepared for the risk that US inflation, already at an almost 41-year high of…
Give the benefit of the doubt to the classic 60% stock / 40% bond portfolio. That’s not easy, given its awful performance so far this year. On Jun. 13, the day the S&P 500 SPX, -0.20% officially entered bear-market territory by closing more than 20% below its Jan. 3 high, long-term US Treasurys were sitting…
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It’s easy to want to duck for cover given the carnage seen this year in stocks and bonds, particularly with the Federal Reserve vowing to wage an unconditional battle against high inflation. While inflation running at a 40-year high still sits near the top of the list of worries for many investors, another potential bugaboo…
Experienced investors have lived through bear markets and learned they present opportunities to buy stocks at low prices. But waiting through the cycle of decline is no fun, and there can be several rallies before the bear market finally ends. Mark Hulbert explains how you can tell when the bear market is near its end….
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