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January 14, 2019 at 9:05 pm

Cold, hard safety blanket: Cash rules as stocks, bonds waver

NEW YORK (AP) — Suddenly, cash is king again. For years, cash languished at the bottom of the investment rankings, weighed down by nearly non-existent...

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Stacks of $100 bills make their way down the line at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Western Currency Facility in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero) NY577

January 14, 2019 at 12:54 pm

Cold, hard safety blanket: Cash rules as stocks, bonds waver

Steady-and-not-so-slow-anymore returns for cash, plus expectations for even more market volatility in 2019, means strategists along Wall Street are seeing cash as a viable investment...

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Trader Tommy Kalikas works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Jan. 11, 2019. Stocks are opening broadly lower on Wall Street, led by declines in banks and technology companies. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

January 11, 2019 at 9:12 am

US stocks drift in a quiet close to another winning week VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes nestled a hair lower on Friday after the falling price of oil weighed on energy companies, but the...

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January 6, 2019 at 9:05 pm

Jittery Wall Street has a lot ahead to be nervous about

More tests of the market’s mettle lie ahead, with U.S.-China trade talks, fourth-quarter earnings reports and another Federal Reserve meeting on the horizon.

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FILE- In this Nov. 20, 2018, file photo stock screens are displayed at the New York Stock Exchange. Stock, bond and commodity markets all succumbed to worries about rising interest rates, a predicted slowdown in economic growth and the painful effects of the global trade war. That meant losses not only for investors who went all-in on U.S. stock funds, but also for those who hewed to the traditional advice and diversified their 401(k) accounts across many different markets. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

January 3, 2019 at 8:28 am

No refuge for investors: Even ‘safe’ funds fell in 2018

The largest stock fund, the largest bond fund and the price of gold fell in 2018. It's the first year all three dropped at the...

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December 23, 2018 at 6:01 am

Will stocks rise in 2019? Maybe, but it’ll be stressful

NEW YORK (AP) — No matter which way the stock market goes in 2019 — and Wall Street has ample arguments for either direction —...

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December 14, 2018 at 8:31 am

The debt threat: Business debt, and worries about it, are up

NEW YORK (AP) — Homeowners appear to have learned the lesson of the Great Recession about not taking on too much debt. There is some...

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December 8, 2018 at 8:25 am

Companies pay investors record amount of stock dividends

With less than a month left in 2018, companies in the S&P 500 index have already topped last year’s record of $419.8 billion in total...

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December 7, 2018 at 3:27 pm

Wall Street whiplash: Stocks’ volatility could continue

The S&P 500 slid 4.6 percent this past week as worries piled up about the economy’s strength, global trade and interest rates. It was a...

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December 4, 2018 at 2:49 pm

Investors hear 3 words they fear: inverted yield curve

NEW YORK (AP) — One of the most reliable warning signals for a recession just got a bit brighter. The signal is called the "yield...

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