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Many of the things you think you know about investing are part of a mythology designed to make you bounce around between investment products. Modern day “conventional wisdom″ just isn’t all that its cracked up to be. Concepts you worship are inaccurate; indices and averages you trust do not tell the complete story the basic [...]

There’s a lot of doubt on the much touted US economic recovery, but as days go by, it seems the downturn which started in December 2007 has its roots in the mortgage industry, might be starting to become an upturn.

There are signs pointing to the beginning of the end of this recession. This past week, tons of information is being released, indicating that the Obama Administration’s stimulus package might already be working. The stimulus package and other government stimulus measures such as lowering key interest rates and buying up bad loans has also helped [...]

Sixty four days into the Obama government and it seems the latest development in the overall economy points to an early economic recovery than most experts expected. Last March 24, Dow Jones Indexes organized a gathering of financial experts to assess the effects of the government bailout plan on the economy and they predicted that [...]

The steady stream of positive economic news may indicate that the US economic crisis might be nearing the end. Less than three weeks ago we witnessed the stock market plummeting to very low levels, the unemployment rate surging to it’s highest level in recent years and the housing industry hemorrhaging even more.

The current US recession has been viewed by most as the worst that ever that hit the country and prompted the Obama administration to approve the $787 billion stimulus package last February, which it hopes will save the economy from further sliding down.

The stock market just hit the level that had in 1997. Billions upon millions of dollars had evaporated. Banks, mutual funds and individual investors are in shock. BUT all those news are making reference to the stock market indices, for example the Dow Jones Industrial Average.