Burned by Investing in Troubled Times
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Scores of investors have sought to profit by buying into troubled financial firms at low prices: so far their investments have failed to make much of a profit.
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The five-year old bull market can't last. Weak earnings growth, higher interest rates and taxes all spell trouble.
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The market's tempting, but if you make this common mistake, it will kill your portfolio.
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Interest rate fears add to jitters in financial markets.
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The ground is shaky, but I'll still take a stab at investing in these parlous times.
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The problems of others hit the stock where it hurts.
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Insiders at some of the most devastated companies are buying shares. Should you do so, too?
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Business & money: Fears grow of market turbulence stunting global growth.
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Older investors are facing tough economic realities as a result of the disappointing United States stock market this year.
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Be careful what you wish for, Force Protection investors.
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It's hard not to get rich investing this way.
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Contrarian investors who think now is the time to start buying beaten-down banking stocks could be in for a shock if they don't carefully review those companies' distressed home-equity loan portfolios.
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You think you've felt pain as an investor? You have no idea.
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The recent bleak returns on Wall Street have prompted many investment advisers to prescribe the same bromide: switch to defensive stocks and cut back on bonds.
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Suddenly coming into a lot of money isnât necessarily the ticket to financial freedom.  Instead, it can be difficult to find smart, solid advice for handling it.
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With the economy on shaky ground right now, some investors are predicting that private funding for high-tech companies could soon tank. But others disagree vehemently, arguing that investors should not be so quickly scared off.
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Okay, if the mind is powerful, how is your mind making you feel today? It's worth thinking about -- with the stock market down this year, every day worse than the last, many of us are losing lots of money, I know I am, and it's not a good feeling.  I keep arguing with myself, even though I'm losing money at a huge rate, I'm still in good shape financially, I have a nice house, I can pay the bills. But it doesn't help. Inside I feel unsettled, poor, I'm having trouble concentrating. Does it help that I've been through this before? The crash of 1987 was much worse than this downturn, and then I had no cushion, nothing to fall back on, I wasn't even employed when it happened. I was a lot closer to being broke around the turn of the century, even though the market was doing very well. But it doesn't help. No matter how many times I've been through it, I've always known that it's cyclic, that the outlook will likely improve, but knowing isn't the same as feeling. The feeling is much stronger, it can't be counteracted with logic. I can't reason with the feeling, you might say it's un-reasonable. Then I heard that a friend of mine, much younger, with a lot less at stake in the market, is having trouble sleeping because of this feeling. I realize I'm not alone, probably millions of people have a heightened sense of insecurity right now. Does that make it better? Not really... Anyway, I thought, let's post something and find out how others feel about the economy and how much of an impact is it having on our state of mind.