Financial planners spend much of their time preparing clients for an uncertain future. They cite worst-case scenarios and pepper clients with anxiety-inducing hypothetical questions. (For instance: What if you die Read more
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Don’t panic about your 401(k)
I’ve been doing this—writing about the stock market and investments—for a quarter of a century. It’s been a heckuva turbulent ride, including Russian defaults, emerging market crises, dot-com disasters, terrorist Read more
Can the stock market bottom without Wall Street’s fear gauge hitting ‘panic’ levels?
Investors have endured a lot this year, and it’s not over yet with market technicians debating whether U.S. stocks are embarking on the start of the next bull market, or Read more