Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | June 15, 2018 1:20 pm ET If you could buy the same stock in two different ways, one of which cost up to nine times as much as the other, you would pick the cheaper way. Wouldn’t you? Perhaps you shouldn’t be too sure. In a new study, finance researchers have caught investors in the act of wildly —...
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Image credit: “The S.S. Princess May Wrecked on Sentinel Island, Alaska, August 5, 1910,” photograph by William Howard . Case, Library of Congress By Jason Zweig | June 8, 2018 11:18 am ET Companies are notorious for burying their blunders. “You can understand why the people who made the mistake want to make...
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Image Credit: Jean-Baptiste Greuze, “Boy with a Broken Egg” (ca. 1756), Albertina (Wikimedia Commons) By Jason Zweig | June 8, 2018 11:08 am ET If I had to write one sentence that is true always and everywhere, it would be this: Smart investors did stupid things again today. A new book, Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | June 1, 2018 12:43 pm ET Eighty-six years ago this week, the stock market hit its worst low. Today, with markets near all-time highs, things aren’t as different as you might think. Then, as now, companies and investors were engaged in a massive power struggle. Then, companies were worth far more than...
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