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Market observers are chastising investors now, for not following advice given two years ago, and for good reason. Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, advised investors two years ago that they should place forty percent of their stock funds, in foreign shares. At that time, that was […]

Nothing is more destructive to an inexperienced, amateur, or even the experienced investor, than the line of thinking that a stock that has been gradually falling over a year, and losing value, is worth buying. These stocks are called, “fallen angels”, because at one point they were among the high value stocks, but are now […]

Some economists believe, that after the stock market crash in the year 2000, that this has taught investors, that basically all good things must come to an end. The problem, they say, lies in the number of asset classes; such as real estate, gold, hedge funds, stocks, crude oil, et cetera, has been mostly beneficial […]

One of the biggest myths about investing in the stock market has always been that making the plunge, making your first investment, is just like gambling. It is the same reason many people absolutely refuse to enter the stock market today. Number one, gambling is addictive; the loss of an investor’s money induces the person […]

Early on in August, it seemed as if the calamity would never end on Wall Street. On the morning of Aug. 10th, the stock market slipped downhill a little more; the Dow Jones industrial average crashed downward two hundred points, in the early morning trades, before it eventually recovered losses later on in the afternoon. […]