Jeff Sommer

The important thing has always been to invest in the overall stock market in the first place and to stick with it.

Big changes are coming in the next Trump administration. But your investing plans needn't change, our columnist says.

Jeff Sommer The US stock market is booming. Since Donald Trump won the presidency once again, traders have been happily driving share prices up.

Jeff Sommer Markets abhor uncertainty. That bit of Wall Street wisdom helps explain their ebb and flow since Donald Trump's victory on Election Day, and even earlier.

With Friday’s gains included, November was the best month in a year for the S&P 500.

The president-elect follows the markets closely. He bragged frequently about how well stocks performed in his first term in office, and said they had boomed this year in anticipati

Jeff Sommer The US President-elect follows the markets closely. He bragged frequently about how well stocks performed in his first term in

By Bitcoin has had a phenomenal year. But its rich returns are paltry compared with those of MicroStrategy, a company dedicated to a risky business: buying bitcoin with money provided by you and other shareholders.

Sizzling returns may well continue, but our columnist suggests that it would be wise to prepare for the next storm.

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