Imagine you bought a basket of stocks 10 years ago and then you didn’t trade them, not even to rebalance. You just let ‘em sit. How would you have done? I try to answer that question and offer some ...

Stocks fell on Monday, with the woes of the three major indexes continuing in the final week of the year as an otherwise strong 2024 comes to a close. Stocks moved lower as the 10-year Treasury yield ...

Greg McFarlane is a financial writer and co-founder of ControlYourCash.com. He is also the co-author of Control Your Cash: Making Money Make Sense. Cierra Murry is an expert in banking, credit cards, ...

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The S&P 500 is a market-capitalization-weighted stock market index that tracks the stock performance of about 500 of some of the largest U.S. public companies. Investors and economists use the S&P 500 ...

A key takeaway from the above table of Dow Jones net annual returns is that the highest years are generally lower than those of the S&P 500 index, but the lows are not as low. This suggests that the ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...