The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Recessions can be scary and have real-world consequences on jobs and the stock market. A business built on the markets The financial markets are the core avenue to building wealth in the modern world, but most people don't have the time, desire, or education to manage all their investments independently.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Most of us would like to become millionaires, and the stock market is arguably the best way of achieving that status over the long haul. But it can be hard to know which stocks to pick that will serve us best. It's focused, obviously, on the technology sector and recently held 69 different stocks.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2024

Or, in the case of, say, a mutual fund, it might sell shares in order to generate some cash with which to cover withdrawals from the fund. Think for yourself So it's generally not smart to sell (or buy) shares of a stock just because some big money did so. So any given move might not be driven by Buffett himself.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 28, 2024

In fact, when you look at the third trait of Rule Breaker stocks, which I'll speak to in a second, or the second habit of Rule Breaker investors, which I'll also mention. A lot of people think the stock market, they say stuff like, "What goes up, must come down." That's the way a lot of people think about the stock market.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 16, 2024

stock market. So the S&P 500 is often used as a proxy for the market -- though it does omit lots of smaller companies. Why invest in an S&P 500 index fund? So an S&P 500 index fund is not a compromise dooming you to sub-par returns.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 12, 2024

Image source: Getty Images Certificate of deposit, or CD, interest rates are the highest they've been since before the 2008 financial crisis. While CDs offer a safe and attractive yield, the reality is that over virtually any long period of time, CDs and other fixed-income investments have underperformed the stock market.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

Let's start with a 2024 survey from Gallup that asked: "Which of the following do you think is the best long-term investment -- [bonds, real estate, savings accounts or CDs, stocks or mutual funds, gold (or) cryptocurrency]?" That's because the stock market can be volatile, and you don't want to have to sell after a drop.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $44,456 !* To have to truly read you back what I wrote 15 or 10 years ago about investing in the stock market and reflect on those, always fun. That's the stock market. The third Mag7 stock is Apple. That was Volume 6 in that series.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

For example, this particular episode, I'll be sharing an essay from January 2008, then we'll jump forward to 2012 and 2013. Well, finally, the fourth and final essay shared this episode was the last one I ever wrote for Motley Fool Stock Advisor. Essay Number 1 is from January 2008. That's when our stocks really go bananas.

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Dear Mr. Market

MARCH 11, 2023

By the way, speaking of financials, and specifically bank stocks… this news is hot off the press with Silicon Valley Bank collapsing this past week. While more volatile, Small and Mid Caps tend to bounce back the fastest after a bear market and although the year is young, that’s been exactly the case so far in 2023.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 24, 2022

And so there was a lot of need on the active mutual fund friends. And so my coverage list kind of converted over time to focus more on mutual funds, to focus on five to nine plans, college savings. And so I tossed my hat in the ring and moved over in October 15, 2008. It’s sophisticated, it has a philosophy.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2022

But I covered derivatives at first, and then I cover mutual funds. I worked for a (inaudible) called Fund Action and did that for a little while, and then went — I met a guy named Duff Ferguson at AllianceBernstein. BALCHUNAS: … I would say the financial crisis of 2008 is when they really kicked in. He was the P.R.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 28, 2024

In this podcast, Motley Fool host Ricky Mulvey and Jules van Binsbergen, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, discuss: Market sentiment. Disconnects between the real economy and financial markets. stock market is merely a "lucky survivor." Savings goals. Whether the U.S.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 3, 2023

Trading volumes were lighter than average as the stock market closed at 1 p.m. You have got a lot of people that are just not in the market today," said Chuck Carlson, chief executive at Horizon Investment Services in Hammond, Indiana. ET ahead of the July 4th Independence Day holiday on Tuesday.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 17, 2024

Then I was back and 2008, I helped start Motley Fool Asset Management, small team. David Gardner: Bill, I see you're starting to brandish the stock graph of your life. But before we do, I'm sure you're going to get into this a little bit more, but the law and then all of a sudden, the stock market. Did your parents care?

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The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

It's the wealth management of which they're seeing a huge increase in revenue, not just from a growing stock market, but also net new assets. trillion in client assets, benefited from a good market, also 6,500 new households. Those activities, the capital markets being very strong and the stock market has been strong.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2024

That was when I was 20 years old, afterwards when I got my degree in nursing and entering in the workforce in 2008 is when I started investing for the retirement in the stock market. When the stock market is going up and down, we would want to sell at the downturn. Because we're all human. Adam Nelson: Sure.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 13, 2024

That's right -- they think these 10 stocks are even better buys. See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of 1/8/2024 This video was recorded on January 05, 2023. Same crew bringing you the weekly stock market news. By the end of 2008, it had dropped from 10 to below $1.50, so there we are with our six bagger.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2023

But if you bought, say , in the wake of the global financial crisis, 2008, 2009, that was an excellent time to buy. If you're curious, how much these folks are investing in the stock market across all Vanguard plans, 72% is invested in stocks. So target date fund.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Bill McNabb, again, who I know you know, was CEO and asked me if I’d come back and join senior staff, and lead the FAS business, which was a lot bigger than when I left in 2008 and I was thrilled to be able to do that. There is that same payment for distribution service, the mutual funds. We all know what happened in 2008.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 17, 2024

Carly Wanna and Carmen Reinicke of Bloomberg report hedge funds pump up exposure to Nvidia, cut AMD: Hedge funds continued to lean into the biggest technology companies leading the way in artificial intelligence as the hype propelled the US stock market higher in the first quarter of the year.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

With the seven big tech firms—Apple (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN), Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL), Facebook parent Meta Platforms (META), Microsoft (MSFT), Nvidia (NVDA), and Tesla (TSLA)—playing an outsize role in this year’s stock market rally, it’s no surprise to see them featured heavily in the quarterly filings of large investors.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Having said this, the stock market is incredibly concentrated in a few names and the risks of something bad hitting us are on the rise here, which is why you should all take these 13F filings with a grain of salt here. That fund, Scion Capital, also boosted bets on Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 19, 2023

In other words there is support for stocks, as many potential buyers wait in the wings for current worries to subside, says LPL’s Smith. Extremes in pessimism in the AAII data are, on average, bullish for near-term stock market returns (and extreme investor optimism tends to be bearish for the near-term outlook).

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ClearMoney

DECEMBER 5, 2021

1 This trend may be worrisome for investors expecting an adverse impact on stock returns once the bill for all this spending comes due. However, the relation between country debt and stock markets is complex, in part because sovereign solvency is dependent upon many factors other than just debt level. Power of Market Prices.

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ClearMoney

DECEMBER 5, 2021

1 This trend may be worrisome for investors expecting an adverse impact on stock returns once the bill for all this spending comes due. However, the relation between country debt and stock markets is complex, in part because sovereign solvency is dependent upon many factors other than just debt level. Power of Market Prices.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

MIELLE: After 2008? RITHOLTZ: 2008, ’09. RITHOLTZ: It’s mutual funds. It’s hedge funds. MIELLE: And then the biggest luck of it all, is I joined Canyon in the ‘90s and there was a tsunami that literally lifted all waves of hedge funds from ‘90 to 2008 and even beyond. MIELLE: Correct.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 20, 2024

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $40,491 !* I'll say that when I was a teenager, like a lot of other folks, I started dabbling in stocks. I think I bought my first stock before I had any facial hair. At that time, was interested in mutual funds. The stock price was going up.

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ClearMoney

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Developed by a blind mathematician and former physics teacher, this stock market indicator took its name from the German airship disaster of 1937. This indicator had correctly foreshadowed major downturns in 1987 and 2008. 4 But no crash occurred, and the S&P 500 had its highest September return since 1939.5.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

Index funds have significantly outperformed their actively managed counterparts over long periods. For example, according to the folks at S&P Dow Jones Indices, over the past 15 years, the S&P 500 index outperformed a whopping 88% of managed large-cap mutual funds, and it outperformed 87% over the past decade.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I remember it really well because I just finished building this house in West Virginia and we, we were taking occupancy in early August, and it was, it was literally the same day that BMP Paraba shut off redemptions from some of their mutual funds, caused all sorts of chaos in Europe. And in fact, by oh six, real estate had peaked.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2024

And the stock market, you know, had a pretty big drop. The last cycle, for example, it took 18 months from when the yield corps inverted to when the recession started in 2008, 18 months. Total 00:54:01 [Speaker Changed] Equity markets 00:54:02 [Speaker Changed] Really 50 50, that’s a big number.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Our pension funds, mutual funds, insurance firms, and other managers of Canadian savings send billions of dollars every year to the United States, the Asia-Pacific, and Europe to invest in their growth companies while young Canadian businesses find themselves starved of funds. This needs to change.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

And the only reason I can think for why dividends became the key way of returning cash is I went back to the history of markets. Bond markets preceded stock markets. So when stock markets were first open, to attract investors to buy stocks, they had to be disguised as bonds. DAMODARAN: Yeah.

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