Investing in U.S. stocks had few bigger fans than the late, great Jack Bogle. “If you hold the stock market, you will grow with America,” the legendary Vanguard founder told CNBC in 2018, less than a year before his death. He famously suggested keeping things simple. Invest through low-cost index funds (such …
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President Donald Trump on Thursday night made an effort to turn his Democratic challenger’s campaign rallying cries against him, as he accepted the Republican Party’s nomination and delivered the last speech at the GOP’s four-day convention. “In America, we don’t turn to government to restore our souls. We put our …
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The coronavirus pandemic is “not even close to being over,” according to the head of the World Health Organization, and the worst is still to come, in what was a grim assessment of the state of affairs some six months after the first cases were reported in China. “Six months …
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“ ‘If you don’t have a tail hedge, I suggest not being in the market we’re facing a huge amount of uncertainty.’ ” That’s “Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable” author Nassim Nicholas Taleb offering his view on the risks swirling in the market and a growing lack of clarity …
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