The Week Ahead: Three Questions Investors Should Answer |
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January 10, 2016 |
January 2016 Bond Updates
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The global stock markets have certainly gotten the world's attention after just five days of trading in 2016. Even the very strong job report on Friday just triggered a brief bounce as stocks ended the week on the lows
Most investors will be looking at their brokerage or 401k accounts this weekend and trying to figure out what they should do with their investments in 2016. I was certainly not expecting this severe a decline but it does not change the approach I feel investors should take with their investments.
Portfolio decisions in 2016 are especially difficult in 2016 after the relative flat performance in 2015 by the S&P 500 and the 6.8% decline in junk bond ETFs like the SPDR Barclays High Yield ETF (JNK). Even the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index was only up a paltry 0.80%.
There are three questions I think investors should ask themselves this weekend. First let's look at last week's market action.
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View more at: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomaspray/2016/01/09/the-week-ahead-three-questions-investors-should-answer/
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