Investing

How to Manage Risk with Stop Losses and Options

You’ve probably noticed the sharp snapback in the stock market during the last few weeks. My question to...

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How Following Trends Can Net Big Returns

For U.S. stock market investors, the long-term bull market trend launched in 2009 has certainly been friendly.

Vanguard Offers Value Exchange-Traded Fund

VTV pursues a large-cap value investing approach that tracks the performance of an index that measures the investment...

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How China’s Economy Passed the United States

According to the International Monetary Fund, when you measure national economic output in “real” terms of goods and...

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Holiday Online Shopping Leads to Big Wins

Last week, we closed the books on November, and it was clearly a winning month for stocks, with...

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How to Beat the Traditional S&P 500 Index

As well as S&P 500 index funds have done in in the past 40 years, one group of...

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How Argentina Could Improve Its Monetary Policy

"Ni Democracia ni Dictadura" -- Graffiti on wall in Rosario, Argentina I spent a week in Rosario, Argentina,...

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Vanguard ETF Seeks Growth in Large-Cap Stocks

The Vanguard Growth ETF (VUG) focuses on a growth investment strategy for investors who are willing to accept...

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Be Thankful for the Benefits of ETFs

Why am I so thankful for ETFs? Here’s a short list of my favorite reasons why we all...

Why This Wounded Bear Could Become a Bucking Bull

Russia is a mess. Plunging oil prices, a ruptured ruble, years of a corrosive “kleptocracy,” Western economic sanctions...