By Jason Zweig | Oct. 20, 2011 10:04 am ET Image credit: Pixabay The constant chatter lately among professional investors has been that the rising correlation among stocks – their increased tendency to move in lockstep up and down – is making stock picking tougher than ever. After all, if all stocks go down together, then even your top picks are...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | October 15, 2011 Taking a loss is hard to take. But avoiding a loss can be much worse. U.S. stocks have lost some $4 trillion since their peak in October 2007, but investors aren’t fleeing the market en masse. So far this year, according to investment-research firm Morningstar, investors have taken...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | October 8, 2011 On Tuesday, when the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index sank below 1100, market pundits were champing at the bit to declare that a bear market had officially begun. They had to eat their words before they could say them, as the market promptly jumped up by more than 5% by...
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