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The Motley Fool September 2, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Don't Make Matters Worse When You Lose Money There are good and bad ways to deal with financial losses. |
The Motley Fool October 7, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Expect Absolutely Nothing From This Investment Big returns on real estate are a thing of the past. |
The Motley Fool August 8, 2006 Shannon Zimmerman |
Beat the Market in Your Sleep Outperform without all that pesky volatility. The Vanguard 500 Index a world-class and dirt cheap S&P tracker that provides quick and easy exposure to such household names as Microsoft, General Electric, and IBM -- has notched an annualized gain of 12%. |
The Motley Fool September 13, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
Is Your Money in a Stupid Place? Are you leaving thousands in your bank checking account, perhaps where it's earning 0.50% interest? Why earn 0.5% on your money when you could get 5% or 10%? |
The Motley Fool December 10, 2007 Richard Gibbons |
How to Build Wealth in Today's Market The market's volatile, but that volatility is bringing huge opportunities. |
The Motley Fool January 20, 2012 Tamara Rutter |
What You Need to Know: Earnings From 4 Top Tech Stocks Reports on Google, Intel, IBM, and General Electric. |
The Motley Fool August 27, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
When Buying an Index Fund Is Stupid Not all index funds are created equal. |
The Motley Fool December 22, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
Sorry, You Won't Earn 10% But you can beat the market. |
The Motley Fool October 30, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Big Gains and Minimal Taxes Many fund investors will enjoy a silver lining come tax time. |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2005 Robert Brokamp |
Stocks for the Really Long Term Yes, stocks are the long-term investment of choice. But at any price? |
The Motley Fool January 25, 2005 Selena Maranjian |
Lumpy Results Ahead Don't expect smooth sailing when you're investing. In the short run, the stock market is especially volatile, and your performance over a few months could be a gain of 25%, or a loss of 18%, or something else. |
The Motley Fool December 19, 2006 Tim Hanson |
This Is the Year for These Stocks Predictably, many financial pundits are falling all over themselves to proclaim that this is going to be the year of the large-cap growth renaissance. But historically speaking, the best-performing stocks are small. |
InternetNews July 15, 2009 |
Intel Sends Stocks Soaring Investors cheer the first sign of hope for the tech sector. |
The Motley Fool July 7, 2010 Alex Dumortier |
The Most Remarkably Mispriced Name in the Market That's the way legendary investor Bill Miller described IBM in an interview at the 2010 Morningstar Investment Conference, adding that the stock is 30%-50% underpriced. |
The Motley Fool March 13, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
How the Best Investors Beat the Bear While it may take years for you to recover your precrash net worth, don't give up. You can get there eventually, as long as you avoid big mistakes and maintain the confidence to keep following your investing plan. |
The Motley Fool March 23, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
They Could Have Been Millionaires Small sums can grow surprisingly huge over long periods. If you end up enjoying 50 more years of life -- or more! -- keeping at least a good-sized chunk of your savings in stocks could generate serious growth. |
The Motley Fool March 16, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Call Me Stupido A reader asks about timing and inflation, and this Motley Fool analyst responds. |
The Motley Fool August 14, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
Don't Buy and Hold Blue-Chip Stocks? Some blue chips do shrivel up and die, or just disappear. Remember Pan Am, Montgomery Ward, and Woolworth? That's why you should keep up with the progress of any company in which you've invested. |
InternetNews January 17, 2006 Paul Shread |
Big Techs Miss Big Intel, IBM and Yahoo gave tech investors much to worry about late Tuesday... The Nasdaq fell and the S&P 500 lost... Affiliated Computer fell after it said it is no longer considering a buyout offer... etc. |
The Motley Fool September 12, 2011 Selena Maranjian |
Your Best Move in a Market Meltdown Instead of trying to prevent losses, look to gather gains in depressed stocks. |
The Motley Fool December 4, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
Is Your Money in a Stupid Place? What you do with money accumulating in your checking account is important. |
The Motley Fool February 12, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
I Love the S&P 500 The main reason to love this index is that over time, it tends to beat the pants off the majority of managed mutual funds. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2012 Michael R. Grupe |
The Big Idea: Weatherproof Portfolios Many investors are more interested in avoiding losses than reaping gains. Dividends from REITs can help protect portfolios from downside risk. |
The Motley Fool April 2, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Happiness Is ... a Portfolio Like This It isn't enough to park your money in the "right" stocks, the stocks you believe in. You need to stash them in your portfolio at the right time. |
The Motley Fool May 3, 2007 Tim Hanson |
The Time Bomb in Your Portfolio The time bomb in your portfolio is inflation, and you need stocks to make sure it doesn't do you in. Any money you don't need for at least three years should be invested in stocks. |
The Motley Fool March 11, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
This Drop Is What You've Been Waiting For Falling markets scare the hardiest of investors. But for those who'd thought they'd never get a great opportunity to invest, the time has come. |
The Motley Fool July 28, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
IBM's Secret Weapon For Big Blue, invention is the mother of revenue. |
The Motley Fool October 26, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Volatility: Friend or Foe? By being aware of volatility and taking steps to reduce it, while also making the most of the opportunities it brings, you can not only improve your investment returns, but also avoid the anxiety of dramatic movements in your net worth. |
The Motley Fool April 9, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
The Surprising S&P 500 Learn fun facts about the venerated index, which just turned 50. Many index funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are tied to it. |
The Motley Fool March 14, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Are You Overdiversified? Learn what you're really getting with an S&P 500 index fund. |
The Motley Fool December 16, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
The Safer Path to Big Bucks If you want to have the soundest sleep at night, and invest in companies that will serve you well in a bear market, dividend-paying stocks can offer security in a volatile market. |
The Motley Fool September 12, 2011 Rich Smith |
General Electric vs. the World Or at least versus the S&P 500. |
Financial Advisor December 2004 Christopher P. Parr |
Look Mom! I Beat the S&P Again! Legg's Value Trust---relative fund superstar or absolute media hype? |
The Motley Fool June 23, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
You're Smarter Than the S&P 500 Maybe you can beat an index fund, but don't get cocky; remember, hindsight doesn't count. |
The Motley Fool August 9, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
Charlatans and "Bull-oney" at the Fool? A reader lashes out at this author. See how she responds: When cash compounds in a savings account, it's much more of a sure thing than wealth growing in stocks. You take on more risk with stocks, but if you invest responsibly, you stand a good chance of being rewarded with higher returns. |
The Motley Fool October 22, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Should You Have Been in Bonds? When stocks are hurting, bonds look really attractive. But that doesn't mean you should dump your whole stock portfolio and run to their fixed income embrace at the first sign of trouble. |
The Motley Fool October 19, 2004 W.D. Crotty |
The ABCs of IBM The company's third-quarter results show the company is doing very well. |
The Motley Fool May 23, 2005 Alyce Lomax |
Intel Inside Apple? An old rumor results in some new stock price gains. Investor, beware. This Apple/Intel idea is a common rumor that seems to reappear every so often. |
The Motley Fool November 18, 2005 |
The Dow's Components Did you know out of thousands and thousands of existing companies, just 30 make up the Dow? |
InternetNews April 11, 2008 Paul Shread |
GE Brings Bears to Life A surprising earnings miss from GE and the lowest consumer confidence reading in 26 years renewed recession fears on Friday and sent stocks plunging. |
The Motley Fool December 7, 2004 David Gardner |
Finding the Best Funds Here's how you can climb to the top of the mutual fund heap. |
The Motley Fool August 3, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman |
Fund Fight When faced with the question of whether to invest in either (a) index funds or (b) actively managed picks, there's no need to settle for a zero-sum solution. You can invest in both. |
The Motley Fool October 13, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Beat the Odds With These 3 Low-Risk Investments Most actively managed funds do badly, but there are some winners. |
The Motley Fool June 2, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Millionaire-Maker Mutual Funds Let someone else make you rich, while you take it easy. There are many funds with market-beating records that can serve you well. |
InternetNews May 12, 2010 Paul Shread |
Cisco Beats the Street, But Shares Fall Cisco sounds a bullish note, but investors were unimpressed. |
The Motley Fool October 25, 2007 John Rosevear |
I Ain't 'Fraid of No Market Ghosts October has historically been a scary month for the markets, but don't let the season spook you into making bad investment decisions. |
The Motley Fool January 31, 2008 Todd Wenning |
This Will Scare You Silly As scary as the current and potential 10-year returns for the S&P sound, investors who added international stocks to their portfolio in 1998 have still come out ahead. |
InternetNews October 16, 2008 Paul Shread |
Tech Earnings Ease Slowdown Fears Even before Google, IBM and AMD delivered strong results late Thursday, stocks were already on the mend. |
The Motley Fool January 17, 2008 Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Dealing With Market Volatility It's been a rough week for the market and few stocks have been spared. So what's an investor to do? That question is discussed in this video. |
The Motley Fool October 21, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
The Secret to Buy-and-Hold Investing This strategy can still make you rich, but you have to pay attention. |