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Text size The latest jobs numbers, released Friday, show a…

There’s nothing magical about a stock index hitting the 10% decline that constitutes what Wall Street considers to be a correction. So we need to stop treating this 10% mark as meaningful. It isn’t. The odds that…

Not many investors can claim a lifetime of stock-market success. Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A, +0.02% BRK.B, -0.36% comes to mind, of course, but what about Warren Kaplan?…

An unexpected warning about the deteriorating economy by Snap Inc. Chief Executive Evan Spiegel rippled through internet and social-media stocks late Monday, potentially ruining the market’s comeback attempt from…

U.S. stocks rose on Monday as the few investors staying on Wall Street capitalized on what is traditionally a lightly attended but bullish week, pushing the S&P 500 to an intraday record.The S&P 500 rose 1.1% after the index hit…

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — There’s a two-out-of-three chance that the stock market will rise through the end of this year. Before you get too excited by these odds, however, you should know that the same odds exist at the…

Mark Dampier is the former research director of Hargreaves Lansdown and author of Effective Investing One of the problems in the financial sector is experience and memory is lost as people retire. This isn’t a job advert for…