Selling an investment solely because the market is declining is one of the most costly investing mistakes you can make. To avoid the temptation, here is one factor to consider before buying a mutual fund.
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World markets plunged yesterday. Just to recap:
Britain’s benchmark FTSE-100: -5.5%
France’s CAC-40 Index: -6.8%
Germany’s blue-chip DAX 30: -7.2%
India’s benchmark stock index: -7.4%
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index: -5.5%
Canada’s S&P/TSX composite index: -4.8%
Brazilian stocks: -6.6%
Argentina’s Merval index: -6.3%
About the only market not to decline was the U.S. markets, because [...]
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Image Credit: Walter RodriguezI have not only beat the S&P 500 the last five years, I’ve clobbered the S&P 500. The S&P 500 has returned about 14% annually since 2003. While working on some posts about my investments for The Dough Roller, I set about calculating my returns for the past five [...]
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Did you ever wonder just how well you could pick stocks if you managed a mutual fund or hedge fund? Well, if you don’t have a few billion dollars lying around to start your own fund, there’s a free solution called Tipping Monkey. Tipping Monkey is a free service that allows you to [...]
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I’ve just finished reading The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm, a book by Robert F. Bruner and Sean D. Carr. As somebody who enjoys reading about history and the financial markets, this book was a good read. What really struck me about the book, however, were the [...]
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Here are some of the best money articles from the past week:
How to Make Money in the Stock Market (Revisited) @ Five Cent Nickel: This is a great historical perspective on the stock market and how holding tight during a falling market can reap rich rewards.
Good Debt?? There is No Such Thing @ [...]
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