How to buy stocks on the brink of a bear market

It seemed like everyone was in a buying mood on Friday, except Elon Musk. The Dow Jones Industrial Average broke a six-day losing streak, the Nasdaq Composite turned in its second positive session in ...

How the stock market ‘fear index’ works

The volatility index, also known as the VIX, essentially takes a reading of the stock market’s blood pressure, measuring investors’ fear. The VIX can spike when investor concerns are heigh...

Gold has remained steady as stocks and bitcoin have plunged

A worker removes cooled 12 kilogram gold ingots from their molds in the foundry at the Prioksky non-ferrous metals plant in Kasimov, Russia, on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Get...