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Stocks edge higher but Greece default fears rise

Don’t limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.  – Charles Schwab After three consecutive losing weeks, the major stock averages finally broke into the win column last week and finished slightly higher. The gains would have been much better had the week ended on Thursday, but […]

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Fed rate hike fears send stocks lower

Investing is laying out money today to receive more money tomorrow. – Warren Buffett The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell for the third consecutive week despite the fact that the preponderance of economic data was positive. A rational person would think that the good news released last week would be reflected in stock prices but […]

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S&P 500 posts modest loss on weak economic data

Don’t look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack! – John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group, a $3 trillion mutual fund firm that popularized index investing Lackluster U.S. economic data and heightened fears that an agreement between Greece and its creditors may not be reached led to modest losses for the […]

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S&P 500 posts small gain as focus turns to Fed

Don’t invest in anything that you don’t understand. Do your research first. – Paul Clitheroe In a rather quiet week characterized by low volatility, a lack of potential market-moving economic data and earnings reports dominated by retailers, the major averages closed basically flat ahead of the Memorial Day holiday weekend. After setting new all-time highs […]

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Despite soft economic data, S&P 500 closes at record high

You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do […]

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April jobs report lifts stocks, S&P 500 again near all-time high

To minimize risk and get the lifestyle you want by utilizing a car means purchasing and maintaining a safe car, using the seat belts and driving safely. To get the lifestyle benefits (more money) from investing in growth assets, such as shares and property, time is the equivalent of a safety belt. – Paul Clitheroe […]

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Stocks fall on weak 1st quarter GDP report

People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise, they’ll stop investing. – Steve Jobs The stock market fell victim to another case of acrophobia last week as a surprisingly weak first quarter gross domestic product (GDP) report spooked investors and stocks tumbled from their […]

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Stocks soar as quarterly earnings reports better than feared

I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one or two of them go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that’s the promise to some people. – Peter Lynch Led by the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite Index, […]

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S&P 500 Index falls 1% on earnings fears, overseas news

Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. once you’re above the level of 25. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing. – Warren Buffett What looked like a flat week for stocks turned ugly on Friday as the major […]

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Stocks near record highs as Fed rate hike likely delayed

The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. – Benjamin Graham For the second consecutive week, the major stock averages closed higher with the Dow Jones Industrial Average once again above the 18,000 level and the S&P 500 Index just barely above 2,100. Both benchmarks were up almost 2% […]

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