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The Stock Market's as Strong as It's Ever Been, but There's a Catch

The Motley Fool

Unlike most of the time prior to 2000, now you need 20-year holding periods to ensure you're achieving the sorts of reliable returns you'd expect -- and need -- from the stock market. Ditto for Apple , which hasn't been quite the same since the late Steve Jobs stepped down as CEO back in 2011.

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A New Stock Is About to Join the S&P 500. Does History Show That Buying It Now Could Pay Off?

The Motley Fool

The cybersecurity stock jumped nearly 4% as investors applauded the move. Why do stocks rise after the news that they'll be added to the S&P 500? For one thing, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and mutual funds that track the S&P 500 index must scoop up shares.

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"Rule Breaker Investing" Mailbag: A Different Way to Score Your "Magnificent Seven" Exposure

The Motley Fool

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. Especially if you're a stock market investor, you've come across this phrase. The first is Nvidia stock Number 6. The year was, of course, 2011.

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How Is Disney Doing?

The Motley Fool

Alison Southwick: How much you invest in the stock market and how much you keep out will be one of the most important decisions you make about your portfolio. In fact, mutual funds that invest along these lines have come to be known as balanced funds. But who does it make sense for? Does it still make sense?

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"Rule Breaker Investing" Mailbag No. 100!

The Motley Fool

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. David Gardner: Love that.

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Navigating Geopolitical Events

ClearMoney

Dimensional’s systematic active approach is designed to adjust to new information in real time, including information about geopolitical events and their potential repercussions for markets. Geopolitical events like military or economic conflicts can affect stock markets in many ways. Global Developments and Their Impact.

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Government Debt and Stock Returns

ClearMoney

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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