Image Credit: Heath Hinegardner By Jason Zweig | Sept. 5, 2009 12:01 a.m. ET There are bears. There are bulls. And there are sitting bulls. These are the legions of 401(k) investors who don’t merely buy and hold; they buy, hold and sit stock-still. Even as the U.S. stock market fell 55% between October 2007 and March 2009, these people barely...
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Image Credit: Bucket-wheel excavator in open mine, Welzow, Germany (2005), photo by JaySef, Wikimedia Commons By Jason Zweig | Aug. 8, 2009 12:01 a.m. ET Slicing and dicing data to predict the future can get dicey. The Super Bowl market indicator holds that stocks will do well after a team from the old National Football League wins the Super Bowl. The...
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Image Credit: Heath Hinegardner By Jason Zweig | July 25, 2009 11:59 p.m. ET Behind the world’s hottest markets is a cold truth many investors don’t want to hear. Emerging markets — those developing countries that used to be called “The Third World,” like Chile and China, Turkey and Thailand, Brazil and India — have been...
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By Jason Zweig | June 13, 2009 11:59 p.m. ET Image credit: Rembrandt, “Philosopher in Meditation” (ca. 1632), The Louvre (Wikimedia Commons) Investing has yielded a few stars so famous they are known by first name. Warren Buffett is one. Peter L. Bernstein — the economist, investment consultant and prolific author who died...
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Image Credit: Heath Hinegardner By Jason Zweig | May 26, 2009 12:01 a.m. ET It is sometimes said that to be an intelligent investor, you must be unemotional. That isn’t true; instead, you should be inversely emotional. Even after recent turbulence, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up roughly 30% since its low in March. It is natural for you to...
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