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These cars are cute and cheap, and no one else has them — how you can get one

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If you drive your cute, imported Nissan Figaro to a cars-and-coffee meetup, you’ll be mobbed with fans. Meanwhile, the rich guy across from you is all alone with his Ferrari RACE, -2.86% because everyone’s already seen that car. At least that’s what importer Gary Duncan says after selling these unique foreign cars, many of them…

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Meet the ‘unluckiest’ stock market investor of modern times

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If you’re thinking of pulling your 401 (k) out of the stock market, or you’re too terrified to invest more, you need to meet my friend Betty Badluck. Poor old Betty has had the worst luck of any stock market investor you’ve ever met. In the last 40 years she has invested in the stock…

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Don’t panic about your 401 (k)

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I’ve been doing this — writing about the stock market and investments — for a quarter of a century. It’s been a heck of a turbulent ride, including Russian defaults, emerging market crises, dot-com disasters, terrorist atrocities, global financial meltdowns, a US housing collapse that rivaled the Great Depression, inflation panics, deflation panics, energy crises,…

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Here’s the ‘defensive twist’ BlackRock recommends for ETF investors in a slowing economy

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Hi! For this week’s ETF Wrap, I spoke with Gargi Chaudhuri, BlackRock’s head of iShares investment strategy for the Americas, about which exchange-traded funds investors might consider in a slowing economy amid concerns over high inflation. Please send feedback and tips to christine.idzelis@marketwatch.com. You can also follow me on Twitter at cidzelis. Investors are worried…

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