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One of the most common investing mistakes is known as “chasing performance.” This occurs when investors base their buy and sell decisions primarily on how a mutual fund or asset class has performed during a previous short-term time period, such as la...

One of the biggest mistakes of many investors is making retirement investing decisions based on their emotions. Doing so can lead to buying high and selling low — which is the exact opposite of a successful retirement investing strategy.

Conservative investors have probably been frustrated recently. The S&P 500 index of stocks returned a strong 3.70% in November. With a month left to go and the stock index up 9.79% for the year, it’s shaping up to be a good year for the stock mar...

The U.S. Presidential Election is just seventy days away now, and Americans across the country are paying attention to who will sit in the Oval Office for at least the next four years. The candidates offer a stark contrast in personality and backgrou...

This morning, the European Central Bank (ECB) introduced negative deposit rates and also cut its main refinancing rate to 0.00%. What this means is that European banks will have to pay the ECB 0.4% of any deposits that they hold with the central bank...

The stock market has taken a beating recently. Over the four business days from August 20-25, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 354.63, 530.94, 588.40, and 204.91 points, respectively – a decline of 9.68% in all. Whether you are a personal or ...

There has been a lot of attention focused on the strengthening of the U.S. dollar over the past year as the currency inches towards parity, or a one-to-one exchange rate, with the euro for the first time since 2002. In fact, currencies across the wor...

It was hard to miss market pessimists on CNBC and other financial news channels last year. In November of 2014, well-known investor Marc Faber, renewed his claim that the market is poised for a 20% decline in the near future. Plenty of panic also wen...