When it comes to business and investing, fear and emotion are handicaps. They cause you to make irrational decisions at the worst times, usually brought on by uncertainty and doubt. This natural human tendency explains how the DJIA can tumble from about 17,500 down to 15,500 and back up to 16,500 in one trading week. […]
Can You Really Handle a Bear Market?
Over the last couple of weeks, stock markets around the world have seen swooping downward trends thanks to jittery and uncertain emerging market activity. If we could look at this objectively, we would barely bat an eye. After all, the stock market spent most of 2013 on a steady and dramatic upward climb and we […]