Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | 2:02 pm ET Aug. 28, 2015 As the Dow Jones Industrial Average has lurched hundreds of points up or down — mostly down — in the past few days, investors have received one constant message: Buy on the dips. If stocks go down further, buy more. On social media, the banter of many investors has been full of...
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Image Credit: “The Fall of Phaeton,” Hendrick Goltzius, 1588, Rijksmuseum By Jason Zweig | 6:18 pm ET Aug. 24, 2015 If you weren’t paying attention to the stock market before Monday, you are now. A 1,000-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average will do that. As the financial blogger Ben Carlson pointed out this past weekend, sharp drops...
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Image Credit: “Fall of the Rebel Angels,” Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1562, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels (Google Art Project) By Jason Zweig | 5:38pm ET Aug. 21, 2015 Stocks slumped worldwide this week, with U.S. and European markets off more than 5% and the Shanghai Composite Index losing more than 11%. Oil prices also...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | 11:35 am ET Aug. 21, 2015 The traditional way of giving retirement advice is getting retired. After a tug of war with the financial industry that has lasted more than five years, the U.S. Department of Labor is moving ahead on rules that will require anyone providing investment advice on your retirement...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | 11:32 am ET Aug. 14, 2015 With China’s currency crumbling, oil prices collapsing and the U.S. stock market brushing its low for the year earlier this past week, you shouldn’t panic. You should, however, make sure you won’t join in if other investors panic. Barely seven years after the financial crisis, it...
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