The following analysis doesn’t play favorites with donkeys or elephants, nor does it serve Kool-Aid of any ideological flavor. This is a market-minded survival guide for those trying to navigate today’s political-induced chaos, with their retirement savings intact. Here are five risk-reduction moves that keep you invested but also protect you from calamity. This post originally appeared at Investing Daily.
Even though broader equities have been highly volatile this year, it’s still a good idea to invest in stocks for a straightforward reason. Holding shares of top companies for five years and beyond will usually allow anyone to earn superior returns. That’s not a secret, but it’s easy to forget when dealing with an uncertain near term. Even turbulent times…
Wall Street analysts make new stock picks on a daily basis. Unfortunately, not all analysts and the stocks they pick are winners. Analyst opinions and ratings can vary significantly for a particular stock, making it difficult for investors to know which analysts to trust. Fortunately, WallStreetZen has implemented a system to track analyst stock picks based on average return, win…
The stock market’s heightened volatility this year is a painful reminder of how quickly Wall Street can go from bullish to bearish. When that happens, taking withdrawals from your retirement account after its value has declined can put you at risk of running out of money. During times like these, having a reliable income source that is not dependent on…
Bitcoin‘s (BTC) price is a bit less than $110,000 per coin as of this writing, right near its all-time high, and right in the midst of what might be a generational bull run for the asset. There’s a solid chance it could keep powering on higher and higher over the coming quarters. But this favorable setup isn’t the result of chance, nor…
Everyone tends to pay attention when big-name stocks make their initial public offerings (IPO). That’s in part because in hindsight, the debut of certain companies provides a life-changing investment opportunity. Consider Tesla Inc. (ticker: TSLA), which hit public markets in 2010 with a valuation of just $2 billion or so – and now, the company is worth more than $1 trillion.…
Solar stocks took a nasty hit after Trump’s “big beautiful bill” passed the House. Because if this legislative package becomes law, it would remove the 30% federal tax credit for rooftop solar installations and end the investment and electricity production tax credits for solar power facilities. Although the bill still has to get through the Senate, we really don’t know…
The average retiree collects nearly $2,000 in retirement benefits each month from Social Security. That’s a nice supplement to anyone’s retirement savings. But a select handful of retirees will receive $5,108 each month this year, and they’ll get an even bigger check in the future thanks to the program’s annual cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA. That’s the maximum retirement benefit for 2025,…
In investing, we like to believe that logic rules. We run the numbers, study earnings reports, model cash flows, and read balance sheets. And over the long haul, those fundamentals do matter. But in the short term? The market isn’t always rational. It’s often driven by something far less tangible—perception. Markets don’t wait for the dust to settle or for…
Down and discouraged for the first four months of the year, the U.S. stock market has bounced back in May. The benchmark S&P 500 is up 12.5% over the past month and is back in the black year to date, returning 1% as of the May 20 close. That doesn’t mean the stock market is fully recovered, as many threats…