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Want to Beat the Dow Jones? Buy This Blue Chip Stock: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/729914/person-looking-at-laptop-with-hands-in-the-air.jpg
Want to Beat the Dow Jones? Buy This Blue Chip Stock

If you're an active investor, you probably follow the three major indices that track the stock market. Of course, there's the Dow Jones Industrial Average, an index of 30 large, blue-chip stocks

3 No-Brainer Stocks to Buy With $50 Right Now: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/730261/fifty-dollar-bill-cash-money-invest-ulysses-grant-getty.jpg
3 No-Brainer Stocks to Buy With $50 Right Now

It can be a tough realization for new investors and an unpleasant reminder for the tenured, but stock market corrections and bear markets are the price investors pay to take part in one of the

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3 Dow Stocks That Are Magnificent Buys in May

Investing on Wall Street comes with its ups and downs. Last year undeniably veered toward the latter, with all three major U.S. indexes plummeting into a bear market.

But not all the indexes

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Why Lufax Holding Stock Was Surging on Tuesday

Lufax Holding (NYSE: LU) saw its stock price jump on Tuesday, up as much as 15.7% on the day. At 2:45 p.m. ET, it was still up about 13.5% for the day. The stock price is up about 8% year to date

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Why Lufax Holding Stock Was Surging on Tuesday

Lufax Holding (NYSE: LU) saw its stock price jump on Tuesday, up as much as 15.7% on the day. At 2:45 p.m. ET, it was still up about 13.5% for the day. The stock price is up about 8% year to date

MarketBeat Week in Review – 5/20 - 5/24: https://unsplash.com/photos/26h317_UMYM
MarketBeat Week in Review – 5/20 - 5/24

If you're a shareholder of Nvidia, you had a great week. If you're holding some of the Dow 30 stocks, your experience may have been very different. The market rallied sharply ahead of Nvidia's

Nasdaq vs. Dow Jones: A Detailed Breakdown of Stock Indexes: https://www.marketbeat.com/logos/articles/med_20240701150127_nasdaq-vs.jpg
Nasdaq vs. Dow Jones: A Detailed Breakdown of Stock Indexes

The Nasdaq and Dow Jones are two of the most prominent and widely followed indexes, and understanding them is vital for any investor. Each represents different segments of the market and has unique

NASDAQ 100 vs. NASDAQ Composite: A Detailed Breakdown of NASDAQ: https://www.marketbeat.com/logos/articles/med_20240521122546_nasdaq-100-vs.jpg
NASDAQ 100 vs. NASDAQ Composite: A Detailed Breakdown of NASDAQ

Looking to invest in the tech sector? Then you’ll likely be looking at NASDAQ stocks, but the NASDAQ is a huge exchange, and investors need ways to break down the components for analysis. That’s

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How to Invest in NASDAQ: An Easy-to-Follow Guide

When tracking the US stock market, you’ll usually see quotes from 3 major indices: the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ Composite Index. All 3 are proxies for US stock

Nasdaq vs. S&P: A Detailed Breakdown of Stock Indexes: https://www.marketbeat.com/logos/articles/med_20240520100023_nasdaq-vs.jpg
Nasdaq vs. S&P: A Detailed Breakdown of Stock Indexes

The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 are both major measures used to track the health of specific segments of the economy. The Nasdaq is a global electronic marketplace for buying and selling securities

3 Dow Stocks to Watch as The Index Hits a New High: https://www.marketbeat.com/logos/articles/med_20240520072958_3-dow-stocks-to-watch-as-the-index-hits-a-new-high.jpg
3 Dow Stocks to Watch as The Index Hits a New High

This year, the stock market could show investors a new divide, unlike anything that portfolios have dealt with in the past economic cycle. After contracting for over 15 months, the U.S.

Bear Market Funds to Watch This Year: https://www.marketbeat.com/logos/articles/med_20240417125102_bear-market-funds-to-watch-this-year.jpg
Bear Market Funds to Watch This Year

As investors search for safe havens in volatile markets, bear market funds are gaining popularity as a diversified asset class designed to withstand exceptionally volatile markets. While bear

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Best Bear Market Funds: Top 3 Investment Options to Consider

As investors search for safe havens in volatile markets, bear market funds are gaining popularity as a diversified asset class designed to withstand exceptionally volatile markets. While bear

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Longest Bear Market in History Plus 7 Other Bear Market Facts

For investors, few terms strike as much fear as "bear market." 

Like being face-to-face with a predator in the wilderness, a bear market represents a period of decline where prices plummet and

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Amazon Stock: Why it's Finally Included in the Dow Index

Does the recent addition of Amazon Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) to the Dow Jones Industrial Average signal that the 30-stock index is still relevant?

And what does the addition mean for Amazon stock?

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Are these frigid Dow stocks in for a longer winter?

At Friday’s annual Groundhog Day ceremony in Pennsylvania, Punxsutawney Phil predicted that we are in for an early spring for the first time since 2020. 

The U.S. stock market has come a long way

Verizon, Walgreens, 3M: 3 high-yield Dow stocks to buy now?: https://www.marketbeat.com/logos/articles/med_20240205072141_verizon-walgreens-3m-3-high-yield-dow-stocks-to-bu.jpg
IBM, Verizon, Merck stocks lead Dow to new highs: https://www.marketbeat.com/logos/articles/med_20240130191144_ibm-verizon-merck-stocks-lead-dow-to-new-highs.jpg
IBM, Verizon, Merck stocks lead Dow to new highs

You don't hear as much about the Dow Jones Industrial Average as investors did a few decades ago, as the broad consensus has deemed the S&P 500 a better indicator of market conditions.

But the

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Where will S&P 500 go after new bullish levels?

The discouraging start to 2024 didn’t result in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA: SPY) falling anywhere close to its 50-day moving average. 

A rally of 1.43% on January 8 brought the broad

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Walgreens Boots Alliance: Is it time to take this Dog for a walk?

Walgreens Boots Alliance (NYSE: WBA) is the ugliest dog of them all. This Dow stock fell 31% for the year, making it the worst-performing member of the index. The move put the yield near 8% and

If you buy the dogs, should you sell these Dow leaders?: https://www.marketbeat.com/logos/articles/med_20231228074608_chart-intc-12282023ver001.png
If you buy the dogs, should you sell these Dow leaders?

The Dogs of the Dow is a popular strategy getting much attention now that the year-end is here. The theory assumes that this year’s losers will be next year’s winners, which is often true. Dow

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2 Tech stocks getting bullish upgrades ahead of Q1

There’s no doubt about it: equities have had a super strong end to the year, with the Dow Jones index already at fresh all-time highs and the others on its heels. The benchmark S&P 500 index, for

Are high-yield Dow Dogs a good buy for 2024?: https://www.marketbeat.com/logos/articles/med_20231227102631_chart-vz-12272023-002ver001.png
Are high-yield Dow Dogs a good buy for 2024?

The Dogs of the Dow theory assumes that this year’s worst performers will be the best-performing stocks in the next. If not, they should provide solid rebounds due to their “lower” value, and many

New Disney investor propels stock to ranks of best S&P gainers: https://www.marketbeat.com/logos/articles/med_20231116074130_new-disney-investor-propels-stock-to-ranks-of-best.jpg
New Disney investor propels stock to ranks of best S&P gainers

You don’t necessarily expect a well-established Dow component, a company that went public in 1957, to be among the top-performing S&P 500 stocks in the past five sessions.

That’s exactly what is