Geopolitical Risk
History suggests investors may not help themselves by divesting from stocks. For long-term investors, the best bet is usually to stay the course.
History suggests investors may not help themselves by divesting from stocks. For long-term investors, the best bet is usually to stay the course.
The stock market’s ups and downs are unpredictable, but history supports an expectation of positive returns over the long term.
Stronger job growth is needed to sustain the economy, and investors are best served by staying diversified, rebalancing, and sticking to their long‑term plan.
We can’t control—or predict—market drops. What we can do is avoid compounding losses by reacting. Fire drills save lives. Financial fire drills may help save our savings.
Government shutdowns tend to make more noise than impact. Markets have tended to ignore short shutdowns and barely budged on those that lasted longer than five days.
Historically, the broad stock market has often been positive even at the start of economic recessions. But what about small cap stocks? Conventional wisdom holds that smaller companies often bear the brunt of economic downturns. So, what does the data tell us about the size premium when gross domestic product growth slows?