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Understand the Stock Market in Minutes

The stock market is everywhere. News reporters chant Dow and S&P 500 figures as if everyone else already knows what they are.
Who's in charge here? The alleged "wisdom of crowds" is so stupid, so often that it seems crazy to suggest that today's stock market - which is, after all, just "the crowd" chasing money - is the ...
Investors frequently use the cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings (CAPE) ratio to determine whether entire stock market indexes like the S&P 500 are overvalued. The metric is also known as the ...
A government shutdown. A weakening labor market. Stubborn inflation. None of it has seemed to matter for the stock market. At least not yet. Stocks closed moderately lower Tuesday, but it was the ...
Wall Street may be heading toward a 1929-style stock market crash — as inflated share prices, speculative bubbles and eroding financial safeguards feel eerily similar to the eve of the Great ...
The stock market has changed a lot since the infamous crash of 1929.