The Stock Market Is Sending a Rare Historical Warning. Warren Buffett Says Investors Should Make This 1 Move.
After years of seemingly unstoppable growth, major market indexes have faltered. The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), and Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) all slipped into the red over the last month, each down between 1% and 2%, as of this writing.
There’s no shortage of reasons why the market is struggling.
The Fed Could Be About to Raise Rates for the First Time Since 2023. Here's What History Says Happens to Stocks Next.
Over three years. That’s how long it’s been since the Federal Reserve last raised the federal funds rate, the interest rate that commercial banks charge each other for overnight borrowing.
This stretch seems likely to end when the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announces the outcome of its latest meeting on Wednesday, Sept.
Read MoreBitcoin, Ethereum ETFs Bleed $592 Million as Clarity Act Fails in Senate
Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) spot ETFs shed a combined $592 million on September 15. Both products posted their deepest single-day outflows in months.
The outflows landed as the CLARITY Act failed to advance in the US Senate. The setback pulled prices lower, and capital followed them out.
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Read MoreSocial Security's 2027 COLA: What the data says so far
When the Social Security Administration announced last year that benefits would be getting a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, many seniors were disappointed. In fact, 54% of retirees said a 2.8% Social Security COLA wasn’t going to cut in a Motley Fool survey taken after that number became official.
Little did they know it at the time,
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Read MoreYour mutual fund portfolio can become riskier while you do nothing, here’s what investors should track
Investors often assume that a mutual fund portfolio remains broadly unchanged as long as they continue holding the same schemes. But the risk of that portfolio can change significantly even when there are no fresh investments, withdrawals or switches.
Market movements can alter the balance between equity and debt,
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Market Commentary: Shocking 2030 Trend Will Make Millionaires
What percentage of the US population is obese? Go on, hazard a guess. What do you think the figure is without looking it up?
According to Healthline, a little over 42% of the US population is clinically obese. And that figure is expected to balloon to 50% by 2030.
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Is This Little-Known Health Innovation The Next Big Thing?
It’s hard to find the next big thing but Exact Sciences might be as close as any company is to it via its liquid biopsies, a transformative approach to diagnosing and monitoring various diseases by detecting signs of cancer, genetic anomalies, or other conditions in blood or other bodily fluids.
This technology has been particularly promising for cancer,
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