4 tips for investors who are nervous about the stock market

Steven Mnuchin on Thursday agreed with the sentiment that the stock market is a report card for how the Trump administration is doing. Bloomberg News Steven Mnuchin has a point. Read: The Trump Scoreboard: Track the markets and economy under Trump in one graphic Read: Treasury seriously studying issuing 50-year or 100-year bonds: MnuchinMarketWatch has long agreed — we include the stock market as one of the three metrics to judge the new president, along with jobs and wages. It's a mark-to-market business," Mnuchin said in an interview with CNBC.


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4 tips for investors who are nervous about the stock market

The guidance, not surprisingly, is similar to what investors are told during times of high market volatility – sit tight! Considering these summits and the 8-year-old bull market, ordinary investors might reasonably be nervous and asking themselves — as they tend to also do when there's outsize volatility in the market — whether they should make any moves now in anticipation of an imminent drop. The broad market benchmark (^DJI) is up nearly 12% since Donald Trump was elected president, and about 5% in the past month. Some clients worry that the market will likely fall, while others want to get in on the action. We asked a few investment managers what they're telling their clients who might be worried that a nasty turnaround is coming to the stock market — and how they would counsel investors on how best to protect themselves when the drop comes.





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