Volatility: The Price of Liquidity
On August 18, U.S. stocks posted the first of what turned out to be six straight days of declines. That week, the S&P 500 Index dropped nearly 12%. While U.S….
On August 18, U.S. stocks posted the first of what turned out to be six straight days of declines. That week, the S&P 500 Index dropped nearly 12%. While U.S….
…this year. On August 11, three major market averages—the Dow Jones, Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 Index—each reached a record high. This is the 8th new record for the 30-stock…
…fell by 25% or more, with TAL Education Group (-93%) dropping the most. During a phenomenal year for the S&P 500 Index (+27%), Kiplinger’s most-loved stocks rose just 6%. Remarkably,…
…it safe to stay invested, or even add more money, when markets have been hitting new all-time highs? With the S&P 500 posting 50 new record highs so far this…
…the S&P 500 Index. Final results over the course of the bet were a 7.1% annualized gain for the S&P 500 index fund versus just 2.2% per year for the…
…stretch from 2000 through 2009 during which U.S. stocks actually lost money—a 10-year period over which $1 invested in the S&P 500 turned into 91 cents. Today, the record is…
…the S&P 500 Index shrank to just 91 cents. Today, there may still be plenty of reasons to rail against Wall Street. But if you assumed in 2010 that the…
Investors have many reasons to despise international stocks today. They’ve not just underperformed the popular Standard & Poor’s 500 Index of large cap U.S. companies by more than 7% per…
…Index funds, for all their benefits, run this risk in seeking to closely track the performance of a benchmark, such as the S&P 500 Index. When index sponsors such as…
…earn positive returns. But turbulence is also part of the experience. Recently, the S&P 500 index plunged more than 5% in just two days. For some, this decline was sudden…
…the same time he made the comments above. Buffett wagered that Vanguard’s S&P 500 Index Fund, designed to track the average performance of large American companies, would deliver better returns…
…Therapeutics dropped 41% and Tower Group sank 44%. While the S&P 500 Index rose nearly 14%, the return of Glassman’s picks was a total whiff—0.0%. Fortune’s 2014 Investor’s Guide shared…