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You’re plenty aware by now that the major indexes are either flirting with or are actually in correction territory – a drop of 10% or more from a peak. But if you take a closer look around, you’ll find individual equities that are much worse off. Indeed, the market is host to hundreds of crashing… Continue reading 7 Crashing Stocks You Might Want to Collect | Kiplinger

The small-cap Russell 2000 fell into bear-market territory Thursday as Lucy yanked the ol’ football away from Charlie Brown yet again. For the fourth consecutive day, what markets did in the morning looked nothing like how they finished. Today’s session started off cheerily enough on the back of a pair of positive economic releases. The… Continue reading Stock Market Today: Small-Cap Russell 2000 Slumps Into Bear Market | Kiplinger

Stock Market Today The market didn’t flinch at the Fed’s nod toward a March rate hike, but stocks swooned after Chair Powell said there’s “quite a bit of room to raise interest rates.”The stock market on Wednesday weathered the Federal Reserve’s suggestion that it would begin raising its benchmark interest rate in March, but it… Continue reading Stock Market Today: Powell Rate Comments Rupture Morning Rally | Kiplinger

The semiconductor industry grabbed headlines in 2021 mostly due to a supply shortage that crippled industries, such as autos, for which chips are a key component. The world awoke to the fact that seemingly everything these days – from garage-door openers to rockets – runs on what’s now dubbed “the new oil.” The acute supply-demand… Continue reading Semiconductor Stocks: A Smart Bet for the Long Haul | Kiplinger

Becoming an Investor Dividend stock strategies come in many different flavors. Here’s what to look for.If you’re shopping for a dividend-stock fund, do what you do when you buy cereal: Look at what’s inside the box (or the portfolio, in this case) so that you know exactly what you’re getting. You can’t assume that just… Continue reading The Right Dividend Stock Fund for You | Kiplinger

mutual funds The fund trailed the S&P by a wide margin, but over the long haul Primecap’s managers have not disappointed shareholders. The managers at Primecap Oydssey Growth (POGRX) like to focus on what they do best – pick stocks – and they typically don’t talk to reporters. So once a year, when the fund’s… Continue reading Primecap Odyssey Growth Has a Rough Year | Kiplinger

In 2008, two investment managers crunched more than 20 years of market data and produced findings that can only be called shocking. Eric Crittenden and Cole Wilcox found that most stocks did significantly worse than the overall market averages over time, and an unexpectedly large number fell dramatically. These losses were offset by a few… Continue reading 5 Stocks to Own for Decades | Kiplinger

Investing for Income Investors should maintain core positions in both REITs and utilities, with regular contributions to both.COVID-19, inflation and the Federal Reserve have so dominated the financial news that it was easy to miss the run-up in utility and real estate shares. In the fourth quarter of 2021, real estate investment trusts (REITs) averaged… Continue reading A Dynamic Duo for Yield in 2022 | Kiplinger