Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | July 9, 2011 The market is up 9% this year. Or is it? For investors, there isn’t an easy way of knowing for sure. After Friday’s drop, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index are 11% and 14% below their respective highs of Oct. 9, 2007. Yet...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | July 2, 2011 Everyone loves surprises. But perhaps you shouldn’t get too excited over them. This month, market strategists, television commentators and other investing pundits will bombard you with breathless updates on the percentage of companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index...
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