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By Joel Dresang New research shows that individual investors vastly overestimate the probability of stock market crashes, in part because of what they see in the news. Anticipating risks is important, but letting short-term incidents muddy long-term plans can be harmful. Often, what worries us today doesn’t even matter to the future plans we disrupt. […]

Investors can’t foresee when news events will disrupt markets, but they can set up and monitor downside protection for their portfolios. Kyle Tetting explains in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

The idea of a summer sell-off comes from a sense that stockholders should vacate the market while traders are distracted.

When President Obama referred to earning “some serious Tubmans,” he reminded us that we like to use slang when we’re talking money. […]

Earnings and interest rates drive stocks in the long run, Steve Giles says, and investors should focus on those fundamentals.

All investments contain risk. Even bond holdings – typically considered safer than stocks – have possible shortcomings, especially as interest rates rise.