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The S&P 500 made its closest brush with a new bear market yet, falling more than 20% from its all-time highs during Friday’s intraday action before reversing course and actually finishing with a marginal advance. Specifically, the 500-company index dropped as low as 3,810 – well below the 3,837 level that would mark a 20%… Continue reading Stock Market Today: S&P 500 Narrowly Escapes Bear Territory | Kiplinger

Stock Market Today An earnings bust from Cisco and higher-than-expected jobless claims helped nudge the S&P 500 toward the bear-market cliff.If there was any good news Thursday, it was that the market’s downward momentum from yesterday largely fizzled out. But the S&P 500 still edged ever nearer to bear-market territory in a mixed day for… Continue reading Stock Market Today: S&P Creeps Closer to Bear Market | Kiplinger

Imagine that your foundation is dedicated to eradicating childhood asthma in your home state. One day, you are listening to the local news during your morning commute and you hear a report about an aging coal-fired power plant where the sulfur dioxide emissions are so bad as to be implicated in the high incidence of… Continue reading An Impact Investing Guide for Private Foundations | Kiplinger

Stock Market Today The S&P 500 and Nasdaq each lost over 4% in a broad-market selloff.Retail earnings week took a big turn for the worse Wednesday. A day after Walmart (WMT, -6.8%) sounded the alarm with a mixed quarterly report that suggested inflation was taking a toll on American consumers, Target (TGT, -24.9%) confirmed those… Continue reading Stock Market Today: Dow Sinks 1,164 Points in Worst Day Since June 2020 | Kiplinger

Bear markets are an inevitable if particularly unpleasant part of the market cycle. But investors who hold the best stocks to buy for bear markets can mitigate at least some of the damage. No, the S&P 500 isn’t in a bear market – a 20% decline from its peak – just yet. It has, however,… Continue reading The 10 Best Stocks for a Bear Market | Kiplinger

The stock market enjoyed a broad rebound Tuesday as fresh economic data suggested the U.S. consumer is still shopping strong. The U.S. Census Bureau said today that April retail sales improved by 0.9% over March. Though that was slightly less than the 1.0% expected, there was a show of strength in the significant upward revision… Continue reading Stock Market Today: Wall Street Rallies Around Reassuring Retail Data | Kiplinger

Warren Buffett went wild with Berkshire Hathaway’s (BRK.B, $309.29) checkbook during the first quarter, scooping up equities at his fastest pace since the Great Financial Crisis. True, it took an epically bad start to the year for stocks and the worst inflation in four decades to lure Berkshire’s chairman and chief executive back into the… Continue reading 15 Stocks Warren Buffett Is Buying (And 7 He’s Selling) | Kiplinger

Warren Buffett went wild with Berkshire Hathaway’s (BRK.B, $309.29) checkbook during the first quarter, scooping up equities at his fastest pace since the Great Financial Crisis. True, it took an epically bad start to the year for stocks and the worst inflation in four decades to lure Berkshire’s chairman and chief executive back into the… Continue reading Buffett Ups Chevron, Apple Holdings, Adds 8 Stakes in Q1 | Kiplinger