Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Feb. 23, 2018 11:30 am ET For years now, market strategists — and financial columnists, for that matter — have been warning investors to expect low returns. Nevertheless, stocks have delivered great results. Over the five years through Thursday, the S&P 500 has earned an average of 14.6%...
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Image Credit: “Memorial Hall, Harvard College,” stereograph, late 19th century, The New York Public Library By Jason Zweig | Feb. 16, 2018 10:05 am ET More than a dozen financial advisers claim to have given speeches at Harvard Business School or the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, but they weren’t invited to speak by those...
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Image credit: Gustav Klimt, “The Kiss” (1907-1908), Austrian Gallery Belvedere, via Wikimedia Commons By Jason Zweig | Feb. 14, 2018 6:14 am ET Happy Valentine’s Day to lovers and friends of all ages, tastes, and types! A few ideas, images, and songs for us all to enjoy: Love’s night is noon....
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Image Credit: Jean Bourdichon, detail from the Grandes Heures d’Anne de Bretagne (ca. 1505-1510), Bibliotheque Nationale de France By Jason Zweig | Feb. 9, 2018 12:00 pm ET To paraphrase the boxer Mike Tyson, investors always have a plan until the market punches them in the face. After U.S. stocks dropped roughly 10% in ten trading...
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Image Credit: Caravaggio, “The Sacrifice of Isaac” (1603), Uffizi via Wikimedia Commons By Jason Zweig | Feb. 5, 2018 6:09 pm ET Stop trying to make sense of the stock market. The one question every investor was asking on Monday has no answer: Why? Why did the Dow Jones Industrial Average close down nearly 1,200 points, or 4.6%?...
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