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How to Cut Your Risk and Maximize Your Gains in Today’s Market

It’s a mistake for investors to find themselves in a constant state of reaction to the daily news..
As Alexander Green explains, you should focus on maximizing your wealth creation and long-term gains.

In Thursday’s column, I advised investors against reacting to the daily headlines whether they deal with “the impeachment crisis,” “the coronavirus crisis” or some other crisis du jour.
This is tough for some folks, especially those new to the investing game.
Every day they see changing interest rates, commodity prices, currency values, economic indicators, political events and stock market valuations.
As a result, they often feel a strong compulsion to “do something.” …read more […]

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Bernard Ebbers, WorldCom CEO Convicted of Fraud, Dies at 78

(Bloomberg) — Bernard Ebbers, the ousted chief executive officer at WorldCom Inc. whose corporate malfeasance led to imprisonment, has died. He was 78.He died Sunday, surrounded by his family at home in Brookhaven, Mississippi, a little more than a month after his early release from prison, according to a family statement released by his lawyer, Graham P. Carner. No cause was given.A federal judge ordered Ebbers released in December for medical reasons after he had served more than 13 years of a 25-year sentence. Ebbers, a onetime milkman and bar bouncer, led a fledgling company — originally named Long Distance …read more […]