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...much as you might be tempted to sneak a peak at your brokerage statement at the end of a 936-point day, the best advice remains the same: ignore the tick-tock of the markets and focus on long-term investing goals. Last week, in the wake of nauseating stock-market losses, San Francisco-based financial planner David Yeske sent out a letter to clients suggesting they make the following promise: "Today, I will not watch CNN, MSNBC, Fox News or any other media source that thrives on bad news and reminds us of it 24/7. Today, I will...
Speculating about the health of companies has long been considered imprudent in Washington, where an ill-considered, offhand remark by politicians can cost businesses and shareholders millions of dollars. With stock markets reeling, the slightest hint of corporate instability today can sink stock prices, making it unwise to suggest that financial titan X may be in danger of joining the roster of bailout candidates...
...banks that participate in the government's rescue program and a public-works fund to rebuild the nation's infrastructure while keeping people employed. He embraced McCain's proposal to suspend the rule that would require retirees to start liquidating their 401(k) holdings at the bottom of the stock-market crash. And he went a step further, proposing that Americans should be able to withdraw some of those retirement savings without penalty during the economic crisis...
Markets in Asia and Europe reacted with hope - or at the very least with calm - to moves made on both sides of the Atlantic over the weekend to convince traders to suspend the Great Stock Dump-a-Thon that eviscerated indices for most of the previous week. After Asian markets progressed with modest gains Monday, trading in Europe opened with similar advances, with France's CAC 40 and London's FTSE surging nearly 6% after the morning's opening...
...current state of the Russian economy is worrisome enough. Since August, the Russian stock markets' capitalization has dropped from $1.5 trillion to less than a third of that. Trading had to be stopped last week and again on Monday for fear the markets would dissolve into thin air. Some Russian banks have started calling in credits before they are due; others have stopped issuing credits altogether. Layoffs are expected, and Big Business even wants the government to reduce the required two months' severance pay for laid-off workers to a single month. Meanwhile, in the past two months, Russia...