The Motley Fool

JUNE 22, 2024

The stock market has kept investors on their toes over the last few years. At the midpoint of 2024, it's definitely been a robust period for the market. Bear in mind that the average annual stock market return is in the ballpark of 10%, as measured over nearly 100 years.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 20, 2024

The memory chip veteran's shares have shown a total return of 40% in 2024 and 81% over the last 52 weeks, leaving the broader stock market far behind in both time spans. However, Micron's stock has also dropped 22% below the all-time high it set in June, a week before its third-quarter earnings report.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

For those of us with cash to invest, putting money in a CD comes at a high opportunity cost. Long investment horizons Some of my Gen Z friends have low or zero debt. To my friends who can stomach it, I'd typically suggest putting money not in a CD, but rather, in the stock market.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 30, 2024

Saving that much money is no easy task, but it is possible -- if you've got a long investment horizon and significant cash to set aside each month. But if you're determined to save that much, you can do so by investing in a low-cost index fund that tracks the S&P 500. The historic annual rate of return for the S&P 500 is 10.2%.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 26, 2024

If you consistently take full advantage of your employer match over the next three or four decades and earn a decent stock market return , you'll have a strong chance of building a million-dollar 401(k) because you won't be doing all the saving on your own. That's extra money that goes straight into your retirement account.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Based on their midyear observation that "high-quality smaller-cap stocks now trade at a near-record valuation discount versus their large-cap peers," the investment bank believes "U.S. SMID-cap [small cap and mid cap] equity returns will be robust over a 10-to-15-year investment horizon, even rivalling that of U.S.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

After such wild swings on Wall Street, investors want one simple question answered: What's next for the stock market? economy or Wall Street with 100% accuracy, there are metrics that offer historically strong correlations to moves in the broader market. How does that relate to the stock market? Quite possibly.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

First, investing in displays for sports arenas made little sense when the stadiums weren't hosting any games. Then, the slow return to normalcy in sports attendance and other live events dovetailed with an inflationary emergency, putting more roadblocks in front of arena upgrades. Should you invest $1,000 in Daktronics right now?

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The Motley Fool

MAY 25, 2024

While some investors might be apprehensive about putting their money to work on Wall Street with the Nasdaq Composite at an all-time high, history shows that every stock market correction and bear market throughout history in the major indexes has eventually been cleared away by a bull market rally.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 14, 2024

If you invest $100 monthly in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF, your investment could reach more than $325,000 over 35 years. You will have contributed $42,000, and you'll collect more than $280,000 in returns. Should you invest $1,000 in SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust right now? And this strategy offers you one more positive point.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 17, 2024

That's because every stock market correction, bear market, and crash throughout history (save for the 2022 bear market) has eventually been recouped by a bull market rally. If your investment horizon is longer than a few months, bank stocks have historically treated you well.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The opportunity cost of investing in a regular brokerage account instead of maxing out my Roth IRA is $11,000. To reach that number, I started with the $6,500 IRA contribution limit, assumed a conservative average annual return of 6.5%, and assumed an investment horizon of 40 years. Regular brokerage account: $69,573.81

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

While there's always some degree of volatility inherent in the stock market, the CBOE Volatility Index , which measures expected volatility in options contracts for the benchmark S&P 500 , jumped to its highest level since the COVID-19 crash in the first quarter of 2020. Volatility is back in full force on Wall Street.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Since this decade began, the iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) , widely followed S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) , and growth-driven Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) have swung like a pendulum, alternating bear and bull markets. The other takeaway is what fewer available dollars for lending does to the stock market.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 10, 2024

Typically, persistent contraction of the PMI leads to downward revisions in corporate earnings -- and when businesses are generating weaker profits, stock valuations often decline. economy and stock market by perhaps the second-half of this year. erased by bull market rallies. Historically, that's bad news for the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 15, 2024

Among Vanguard's 50 stock ETFs, the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF (NYSEMKT: VTI) and the Vanguard Growth Index Fund ETF (NYSEMKT: VUG) are two of the most popular, and for good reason. stock market, including large-, mid-, and small-cap companies. VTI has averaged an annual return on investment of 12.3%

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 11, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) was the dominant stock market theme of 2023. Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) became the poster child for the technology, and its stock delivered a 239% return for the year, which led the S&P 500. But investing in individual AI stocks can be risky. For example, C3.ai

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In simple terms, stocks tend to perform poorly during recessions -- and the LEI is signaling that an economic downturn is very likely. Bear markets can be a blessing for those with a long investment horizon Admittedly, most economists have been calling for a recession since 2023 began -- and they've, thus far, been wrong.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

In the stock market, ups and downs are inevitable. Instead of focusing on those short-term oscillations, these investors should put their cash into great businesses and focus on multiyear investing horizons. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 17, 2023

Folks looked at me sideways when I confessed to leveraging investments. This is when you buy stocks with borrowed money to potentially boost returns. This happens when your stocks are at rock bottom, the worst possible time to sell. Because I didn't understand the risks, I over-invested and lost thousands.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2023

But when examined over a period of months or perhaps a year or two, the stock market can truly be "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma," to quote the late Winston Churchill. Following the money over the long run is a surefire investment strategy Based on what following the money tells us, the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 13, 2023

These are companies that own, operate, and often finance income-generating real estate, allowing individuals to invest in portfolios of properties the same way they might invest in the stock market. 10 stocks we like better than Walmart When our analyst team has an investing tip, it can pay to listen. .*

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Explore Types, Benefits and How to Get Started Are you tired of the traditional investment options that seem to be a rollercoaster ride and often offer limited downside protection? Do you find yourself longing for new opportunities that can potentially generate higher returns over market cycles?

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Explore Types, Benefits and How to Get Started Are you tired of the traditional investment options that seem to be a rollercoaster ride and often offer limited downside protection? Do you find yourself longing for new opportunities that can potentially generate higher returns over market cycles?

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 17, 2024

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The Motley Fool

JULY 1, 2023

.* They just revealed what they believe are the ten best stocks for investors to buy right now. That's right -- they think these 10 stocks are even better buys. See the 10 stocks Stock Advisor returns as of June 26, 2023 This video was recorded on June 23, 2023. and Walmart wasn't one of them! It's pretty sad.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

Barbara Shecter of the National Post reports Canada Pension Plan investing board posts 1.3% return for year: The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board posted a net return of 1.3 The CPP fund has a 10-year net return of 10 per cent. Christine Dobby of the Toronto Star also reports CPP Investments posts 1.3%

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, returning after a too long of a wait, Professor Aswath Damodaran. DAMODARAN: Forty years ago, 95 percent of cash returned by companies took the form of dividends. In 1981, when I started, dividends were the way to go for returned cash.

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