All 867 of this year's teams started with $100,000. Then the students, who ranged from 4th graders to high school seniors, invested it as they saw fit, paying brokerage fees and buying stocks and mutual funds at actual prices.
Some teams watched as the value of their investments dropped to less than $30,000. Even the [...]
Stock investors face a dilemma: How to proceed at a time when the risk remains high for big downdrafts in share prices but many stocks are at prices that make them appealing long-term investments.
It's an environment that calls for flexibility and very different strategies for different time horizons.
Over the next year, many believe [...]
Contrary to conventional wisdom, funds run by active stock pickers may not be the best bet during a bear market, according to a new study.
Many investors believe that active managers can outperform their index-tracking rivals during a market downturn because these managers can freely shift to more defensive holdings, such as cash. Index funds, [...]
10.10.08
New York and Atlanta – Emergency interest-rate cuts. A presidential speech meant to calm the financial markets. New government authority to buy from financial institutions as much as $700 billion worth of bad mortgage-related debt – all designed to reopen the world’s clogged credit markets.
But Wall Street, gripped by a negative [...]