Stock Market Ups And Downs

The stock market was meant to be a place where businessmen could raise capital by selling shares in their enterprises, and where investors could turn a profit when those enterprises prospered. The market still serves both purposes, but today it is judged less by what it does for businessmen seeking capital than by what it accomplishes for investors seeking gain. In a time of high and rising taxes, investment in stocks is one of the few ways by which a wage or salary earner can hope to become rich-at least on paper

Now that the market has become the prime source of a second income for many Americans, they are increasingly asking a puzzling question: What makes the market go up-and down. Stock Tips  can help you build long-term growth into your overall financial plan. History has repeatedly demonstrated that stocks, as an asset class, have outperformed every other type of investment over long periods of time. 

With so many people and so much money involved in investments, the market is inevitably fluttered by politics at home and alarms abroad, by racy tips and wild rumors that whisper along Wall Street. No matter that the rumors usually have the reliability quotient of the market-rallying report two weeks ago that the Pueblo was about to be released by North Korea. That word apparently came from Red China by way of Paris. Last week the market fell and then rebounded in a swirl of contradictory reports that President Johnson was (or was not) planning to call for wartime controls on the economy, that profits were (or were not) heading up.

Stock Market Ups And Downs