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Ten days ago I said that investing one’s money takes confidence. It seems I was more accurate on that point than ever, as August 2010 turns out to be the worst August since 2001, and that was days before what happened to the World Trade Center. The Dow dropped 4.3% in August, including dipping under [...]
I’m not the best investor in the world; we’ll get that out of the way now. And when you look at what’s been happening to the market lately, where the smallest bit of bad news seems to send the markets tumbling, it doesn’t give you the warm and fuzzy feeling of confidence. And yet, according [...]
We all knew it was coming, and today it finally came. The Dow Jones Industrials has been up and down, riding an interesting roller coaster over the past couple of weeks that saw it drop below 10,000 a couple of times, only to rally back above the mark by the close of the day. Last [...]
What a wild ride on Wall Street this past week. With worries about many countries in the European Union, the fall of the price of oil, and of course the massive oil spill that seems to be taking a life of its own, numbers were dropping for much of the week, even falling below that [...]
Just when you think you’ve seen everything, you come across a day like this. The stock market took a major league tumble, then found a way to right itself. At one point during the day the Dow was down more than 900 points, before rallying to end the day down a little more than 300 [...]
Talk about a nice run. The Dow Jones is on a very impressive run after taking a tumble 8 weeks ago. This weekend, the industrial average closed higher for the 11th time in 12 days, and that helped the index closed well, matching its longest string of gains since January 2004. Of course, marketers being [...]
Mortgage rates vary depending on the type of loan you obtain and for how long you are borrowing it. The rate also differs from one lender to another. When you plan to obtain a home loan, you must shop around and compare the monthly mortgage payments and total interest on different loans with the help [...]
