Warren Buffett has long been critical of gold as an investment, saying it “has no use” and that “magic metal” does not match “American mettle.” He once wrote that “Anyone who sees Mars will scratch his head” about how we treat the shiny game on this planet. However, the Berkshire …
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Text size Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images It’s like the bear market never happened. And maybe just did that. The stock market had another good week, with the S&P 500 index ending 0.6% to 3372.85; the Dow Jones industrial average rose 497.54 points, or 1.8%, to 27,931.02; and the …
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Text size Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images It’s like the bear market never happened. And maybe just did that. The stock market had another good week, with the S&P 500 index ending 0.6% to 3372.85; the Dow Jones industrial average rose 497.54 points, or 1.8%, to 27,931.02; and the …
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Stock index futures traded on opposite sides of unchanged Friday after July retail sales showed a weaker rise than expected. Market participants this weekend were also eager for a round of virtual trade talks between the US and China against a backdrop of growing tensions between the two countries. What …
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The thought must have plagued many investors in the pandemic. Why not just get out of the markets and switch into cash? Fund management giant Vanguard Group looked at the investors who did just that, in a recently published study. Now, the Vanguard audience is not exactly that of Robinhood …
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