A Guide To The Selection Process For Online Brokerages

Selecting an online broker could be one of an investor's most important choices. The selection process for online brokerages can involve a couple of components. One is good, old-fashioned gut instinct. The other is a hard analysis of the facts.

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Funds that promise protection from stock market unrest

'Protected funds' aim to limit your losses, so can they still produce growth?

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Weekend Investor: How fund investors can weather parched market

Mutual-fund and exchange-traded fund investors take to the U.S. stock market’s sidelines in the second quarter, preferring to watch the game rather than play. And what a game it was.

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5 Reasons To Fear The Stock Market

Is the stock market a place to make money or is it a financial wolf in sheeps clothing?

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Time heals all wounds in stock market

The long term used to mean three-, five- or 10-year holding periods for stock investors looking to wring out risk and boost their odds of making money. Then came the 2000s, dubbed the Lost Decade, when the U.S. stock market posted negative returns in a decade for the first time since the 1930s.That poor 10-year stretch put a big dent in the boilerplate stay-the-course personal finance advice ...

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Harry Domash, Online Investing: Priority No. 1 should be avoiding big losses

Making money in the stock market is as much about avoiding big losses as it is about scoring big gains.

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Personal Finance: Index funds mirror market, deliver value to investors

It's that time again, the time of year when insecurities about the stock market and busy schedules drive people to experts for help doing taxes and picking mutual funds for IRAs.

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Mutual funds seeing rebound in returns

The pain of the stock market meltdown is becoming a more distant memory thanks to the stunning rebound of mutual fund returns.

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The stock market trap

Rob Carrick rounds up the best in personal finance reading on the Web

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Playing Politics With Mr. Market

There’s a long and boring history of hacks, typically on the right, blaming or crediting presidents for whatever the stock market happens to be doing at the moment.

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