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Are Your Finances Safe? Take The Financial Retirement Threat Assessment Survey
As we get closer to retirement, the more we need to worry about our finances and the security of our retirement savings. 7 questions designed to show you what threats exist and what you can do to minimize future loss. If you don’t know the threats to your savings, you can’t take action and you can’t…
Read MoreHere’s Where the Next Crisis Starts – You Think The Stock Market Is Safe!? You Better Think Again!
The case for a pending financial collapse is well grounded. Financial crises occur on a regular basis including 1987, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2007-08. That averages out to about once every five years for the past thirty years. There has not been a financial crisis for ten years so the world is overdue. It’s also the…
Read MoreAll the biggest stocks that are now in a bear market, in one chart
There are some BIG names in bear territory right now. And the list of bear-market stocks keeps growing every day, as the Dow Jones Industrial DJIA, +0.21% , the S&P 500 SPX, -0.15% and the Nasdaq CompositeCOMP, -0.81% continue to decline sharply this week in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s latest interest-rate hike. A correction is typically defined as a…
Read MoreMore than half of S&P 500 stocks are now in a bear market
Even after the recent pain in the stock market, the S&P 500 Index is down only 3% in 2018 (excluding dividends). That’s not so bad when you consider the benchmark index rose 19% in 2017. Still, more than half of the stocks in the index are in bear-market territory, showing how broad the decline has been. A…
Read MoreHousing market now ‘reminds me of 2006,’ Robert Shiller says
‘I wouldn’t expect something as severe as the Great Financial Crisis coming on right now.’ Famed housing-watcher Robert Shiller said Tuesday that the weakening housing market reminded him of the last market top, just before the subprime housing bubble burst, slashing prices by nearly a third and costing millions of Americans their homes. Home price…
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