Save Your Savings

Are there any safe havens left?
It sure doesn’t feel like it. Even conservative investments – like ultrashort- term bond funds and a single money market fund – have lost value recently. But rest assured, your cash accounts are still extremely safe. To shore up confidence in money-market mutual funds after a prominent portfolio “broke the [...]

Three reasons why you shouldn’t panic and sell your stocks

The government bailout that was supposed to save the financial sector from certain doom failed to pass vote on Congress. Does that mean we now face certain doom? I think not.
I don’t want to sound Pollyanna-ish and I don’t really have a crystal ball (as my headline promises), but here are some reasons why investors [...]