Nervous About the Stock Market? History Has Encouraging News for Long-Term Investors.
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Bear markets and volatility are inevitable but fleeting.
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Since the 1920s, 93% of the rolling 10-year periods have had positive returns on the S&P 500.
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Since 1926, the S&P 500 and its precursor have averaged an 11% annualized return.
Here's How Much Social Security's Trump Bump-Driven 2027 COLA Is Projected to Boost Benefits
For the overwhelming majority of the more than 71 million traditional Social Security beneficiaries (retired workers, workers with disabilities, and survivors of deceased workers), few announcements are more anticipated than the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) reveal.
Social Security’s COLA is best described as an annual raise passed on to recipients to offset the effects of inflation.
Is Wolfspeed Stock a Buy on the Latest Dip?
Wolfspeed (WOLF -2.24%) had been one of the hottest stocks in the market this spring, surging on hopes that it could become the next AI winner.
The rise coincided with a bullish report from Substack publication Citrini Research, which had earlier come into prominence after publishing a thought piece about how artificial intelligence (AI) would negatively impact software-as-a-service (SaaS) stocks,
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Read MoreInside Morgan Stanley’s XRP Shuffle: Three New ETFs and a Much Bigger SPAC Position
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Morgan Stanley’s latest 13F is circulating on crypto social channels as evidence of an institutional XRP conviction call. The disclosed positions read as opportunistic, undersized and neutral, sized as a rounding error against the bank’s overall book.
The Q2 2026 filing,
If a Stock Market Crash Is Coming, Here's the 1 Thing You Shouldn't Do, According to History
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Several valuation metrics indicate that the market is trading at high levels today.
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Investors might be tempted to pocket gains at these levels.
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But great stocks can continue to create shareholder value over time.
Is a market crash coming?
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What Price Exactly Should Palantir Trade At?
Palantir Technologies (NYSE:PLTR) has successfully ridden the AI wave of the last two years to produce outstanding shareholder returns.
The stock traded at less than $7 as recently as the beginning of 2023 but has since risen by over 6x. This sudden spike in prices begs the question of whether the market is valuing Palantir appropriately today.
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5 Stocks Buffett Is Buying and 2 He’s Dumping
In Q4 of last year, Warren Buffett made a few significant changes to the Berkshire Hathaway portfolio. The investing legend sat on the sidelines through much of 2024, with most of his activity accounted for by selling stocks into a high-priced market and consolidating his company’s assets in cash.
With Buffett and his investing team seemingly jumping back into action late last year,
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Read MoreThe Spotlight
Spotlight: Are You About To Lose A Fortune?
The turtle and hare game is so apt in investing. Why chase the fast bucks when slow and steady wins the race? Where investing gets tough is when the tortoise approach turns into a game of switcharoo, where you the investor gets the rug pulled on you. What am I talking about?
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