The headlines and market analyses of the last few weeks, saying that stocks are in a bull market, may be a comfort even if they are potentially misleading.They are based […]
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Back to news homeMost Funds Couldn’t Beat the Stock Market in 2022, Despite Advantages
For the stock market, 2022 was a special year. If there was any year in which stock pickers should have been able to outperform the broad market indexes, 2022 was […]
How the S&P 500 is Dominated By Apple and Microsoft
The fate of the S&P 500 index — used by investors as a barometer for the health of corporate America, and cited by presidents as a measure of their handling […]
Actively Managed Mutual Funds Consistently Fail to Beat Markets, Study Finds
The answer was none.Not a single one of the initial 2,132 funds managed to achieve top-quartile performance for those five successive years. That hasn’t happened for stock funds since 2011. […]
Apple Becomes First Company to Hit $3 Trillion Market Value
Combine Walmart, Disney, Netflix, Nike, Exxon Mobil, Coca-Cola, Comcast, Morgan Stanley, McDonald’s, AT&T, Goldman Sachs, Boeing, IBM and Ford.Apple is still worth more.Apple, the computer company that started in a […]
Fed’s Moves in 2022 Could End the Stock Market’s Pandemic Run
For two years, the stock market has been largely able to ignore the lived reality of Americans during the pandemic — the mounting coronavirus cases, the loss of lives and […]