This 'dull' stock market is just waiting to catch you napping

marketwatch.com Should you avoid stocks when trading volume falls? This is a timely question, since we’re entering the summer months in which trading volume typically dries up. If price…

The 60:40 portfolio is up more than 17%. Why is it doing so much better this year?

marketwatch.com “Regression to the mean” is a powerful force in the financial markets, so it was a good bet that the 60:40 portfolio would have a much better year in 2023 than in 2022. But…

Here’s how the debt-ceiling deal can hurt stock prices while disrupting the bond market

marketwatch.com President Joe Biden is expected to sign legislation into law to raise the federal debt ceiling and avert a potential default on U.S. Treasury securities. The Senate passed…

Mark Hulbert: Americans expect inflation to stay painfully high. That’s good news for stocks

marketwatch.com Headline inflation may have come down over the past year, but consumers’ expectations about future inflation have not. In fact, five-year expected inflation has been inching…

Stock-market investing: How will you know when to get back in?

marketwatch.com You’re kidding yourself if you think you’ll know when you should reinvest the cash you have built up during the bear market of the last 18 months. You almost certainly will…

Mark Hulbert: If you haven’t owned these 5 stocks, your portfolio probably is trailing the market

marketwatch.com New research provides perhaps the most compelling reason of all to buy and hold an index fund: Only a tiny group of stocks has provided the entire global market’s long-term…

Small- and midcap stocks look cheap -- if you ignore these money-losing companies

marketwatch.com “A complete picture of stock market health requires a focus on all companies, not just those that are turning a profit. ” Depending on your source for P/E ratios, the small-…

The real reason some ESG funds outperform

247wallst.com (Mark Hulbert, an author and longtime investment columnist, is the founder of the Hulbert Financial Digest; his Hulbert Ratings audits investment newsletter returns.) CHAPEL…