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How Presidential Elections Affect the Financial Markets

Your Richest Life

presidential election, and while we can’t predict the outcome, we can predict that there will likely be a response from the financial markets. Exactly how the markets will react is less clear, but history has shown us that in times of great change or uncertainty, markets react. We are days out from the next U.S.

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2025 Q1 Update: Federal Reserve Rates, Inflation and Financial Markets

Your Richest Life

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that the economy is in a good place right now, and with inflation rates creeping back up , there is no reason to make another cut at this time. Future cuts will depend on inflation and the strength of the economy as the year goes on. 2025 Inflation creeps up The U.S.

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How Much Do You Really Know About Stock Market Indexes?

Yardley Wealth Management

Little did they know that over the following 129 years, their pioneering index would help shape how the public views and invests in the market. 1 Originally composed of 12 companies, the DJIA looked to reflect the major sectors of the late 19th-century American economy. economy at the turn of the last century.

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Turn Off TV – Emperor Media Has No Clothes!

Investing Caffeine

was exiting the Vietnam War Economy was undergoing a major recession Watergate scandal and presidential resignation 9% unemployment The Arab Oil Embargo Surging inflation The medias response? The media went into overdrive regarding the nuclear unease, but the market brushed it off and continued climbing +58% over the next few years.

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No Market Misgiving on This Thanksgiving

Investing Caffeine

We’ll see if there is any gravy left for investors during the last month of the year, but so far 2024 has been a satiating feast that has stuffed investors.

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Time in the Market Beats Timing the Market

Investing Caffeine

Two assassination attempts on a presidential candidate An ongoing bloody war between Russia and Ukraine that reaches one million deaths Brutal Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza moves into its second year Nationwide Palestinian protests across college campuses Israeli-Hezbollah war commences in Lebanon Rebels in Syria topple the Assad regime A hotly contested (..)

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Mideast War an Investor Bore as Markets Soar

Investing Caffeine

would bomb key nuclear sites in Iran, would you have guessed that Middle East stability would follow—and that global financial markets would soar to record highs? While geopolitical dynamics remain fluid, markets shrugged off the chaos. for the month to a market value of $3.9 But that’s exactly what happened last month.