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Weekly Investment Commentary: Stocks climb, but so does unemployment
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Equities ended higher, with the S&P 500 Index up 1.7%. The U.S. dollar was down for the sixth straight week, hitting its lowest level since May 2018.
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Weekly Investment Commentary: Technology stocks drag equities lower
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All major equity indexes finished lower last week, with the S&P 500 down 0.3% and the technology-heavy NASDAQ down more than 1%.
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Weekly Investment Commentary: Stocks grind higher, but risks remain elevated
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Stock prices rose for a third consecutive week, bringing prices back to where they were in early June. Investors largely shrugged off news of growing coronavirus cases in many areas of the U.S. and world and looked past possibilities of renewed economic shutdowns.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
The Importance of Avoiding Big Losses
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The Best Way to Make Money, Is to Not Lose It — This post examines the claim that minimizing losses is more important to the ultimate success of an investment plan than maximizing gains.
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Taking the Long View
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Short-Term Views May Fall Short for Goals-Based Investing: The risk to both retail and professional investors is tinkering and tweaking portfolios in response to short-term “noise” and recent performance. The primary objective for investors with long-term goals should be to achieve their goals on time. Long-term goals require a longer-term view of the markets and risks.
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Trailing vs Rolling Returns
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Redefining the Conversation about Returns: Help investors keep their "eyes on the prize", or that long-term goal, while helping them to avoid getting caught up in the fixating of chasing short-term returns or 'beating the market'.
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10 predictions for 2020: Midyear update | Improving conditions but growing risks
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Bob Doll updates his 2020 10 Predictions and provides views on the direction of the economy and financial markets.
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Weekly Investment Commentary: The summer market churn continues
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Despite day-to-day and week-to-week volatility, stocks prices remain little changed over the past couple of months. Last week, the S&P 500 Index rose 1.8% to a level slightly below where it was one month ago.