What’s the latest worry facing investors while they await the quadrennial anguish of selecting Stock prices are showing continued strength as 2024 gets into full swing and January comes to a close. All three of the major equity indexes – Dow Industrials, S&P 500, and Nasdaq – have now made new all-time highs.
That leaves investors to wait and wonder what is to come. Will it be a soft landing or a shallow, brief recession? Will corporate earnings be as disappointing as many fear? And will “none of the above” be the top vote-getter in this year’s presidential election?
Investors are being told to brace for renewed market volatility in the months ahead – and that’s probably good advice.
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Take these four simple steps to limit who has access to your personal financial information. (Reading time: 4 minutes)
Based on how much we spend – as opposed to how much we earn – poverty in the U.S. has declined by more than a third since 1980. (Reading time: 3 minutes)
Words to the Wise
“I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but my leading or driving them out of it. I observed that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less done for them, the more they did for themselves and became richer.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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