... first look at a couple of charts showing three major asset classes: US stocks (the green line), foreign stocks, (in blue), and US bonds (in orange). To these I’ve added a super-basic 60/40 portfolio mix ...
... you’re probably less, or even much less, exposed to today’s craziness than you think. You can ride out market volatility because you won’t have to sell stocks to cover near-term expenses. You can let your ...
The rough patch for stocks deepened last week with the S&P 500 posting its seventh weekly loss in a row and almost touching bear market territory (a 20% loss from a recent high). Parts of the index, such ...
Last week was a busy one for the markets. The S&P 500 had its sixth weekly loss in a row on lots of news and volatile trading. Stocks snapped back a bit as the week ended, which is encouraging, and futures ...
... and this (plus more increases in the coming months) is already priced into bonds and stocks. The benchmark 10yr Treasury hit 3% yesterday for the first time in several years and parts of the yield curve ...
Last week ended with a very odd coincidence – stocks, as measured by the S&P 500 and bonds, as measured by the Barclays Aggregate Bond Index, were each down about 10% year-to-date. And that’s for the typical ...
Before I get to this week’s post I wanted to say a few words about the markets. Stocks have been grinding lower and it’s getting to be brutal in the bond market (although there’s a little relief for both ...
... as the new year opened. It didn’t last long. Inflation concerns grew, but the real drop in sentiment came when Russia invaded Ukraine. Investors quickly sold off stocks, especially those that had performed ...
The stock market finally performed well last week. This is great to see after such poor performance this year. Investors favored what had been most beaten down while selling energy stocks, the only sector ...
... December 1989, I interviewed him at his home in the Caribbean. I asked how he had felt when he bought those stocks in 1939.
“I regarded my own fear as a signal of how dire things were,” said Mr. Templeton, ...