Stay with your stocks, is the message that investors are getting from some key market and economic forecasters. They’re betting that the economy can stand up by itself, as the government cuts its budget and the stimulus programs gradually wind down.
Not that there isn’t plenty to worry about: high gasoline prices, unfinished revolutions in the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘stocks’
- 5 great money ideas for 2011
- POSTED 12.30.10
What’s one of the country’s top New Year’s resolutions? “Get my personal finances on track.” It competes with “Lose five pounds” and way outdoes “Spend more time with family and friends.” If you get control of your money, you might even find it easier to control other niggling issues (like that extra Christmas weight). Here [...]
- Should you buy stocks now?
- POSTED 05.15.10
What’s an investor to do? In the past three weeks, Greece melted down, a terrorist attacked Times Square, the Dow dropped 600 points in seven minutes and then spiked back up, BP befouled the Gulf of Mexico, and a volcano wrecked the airline industry’s profit plans. If you’re sensible you, um, buy stocks.
This isn’t a [...]
- Curb Your enthusiam, part II
- POSTED 03.6.10
Stocks leaped off the bottom, after the market panic passed, and the economy did too. The first two quarters of recovery were unexpectedly strong. Now, however, various leading indicators point to slower growth later in the year and early next year. Not a return to recession but not a boom, either.
That suggests disappointment for stock-fund [...]
- Why individual stocks are poison
- POSTED 01.12.10
I’m on tour to promote my new book, MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR MONEY NOW, and I’m getting the same question everywhere: What do I think about this or that individual stock? I always say, “Beats me.” What’s more, I don’t even care. Friends don’t let friends buy individual stocks.
I’m optimistic about the stock [...]
