The stock market often moves two steps forward, one step back

Published: December 31, 2007
One of the hardest things to accept about the stock market is its volatility: prices rise and fall day to day, month to month, and year to year. One month an investor’s account has grown to a certain ...

How much should an investor worry about another recession?

Published: December 31, 2007
The drumbeat of negative economic predictions continues as more forecasters predict that a recession began late in 2007 or will arrive early in 2008. The latest convert is former Federal Reserve Chairman ...