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| Welcome to a special edition of the Markets newsletter featuring articles from today's Personal Investing monthly report. The report offers insights and advice for investors—including our featured article on how to tell if this beaten-down stock market is undervalued yet. Also: Inflation-fighting stocks, and the sectors that do best during high inflation. This newsletter was compiled by WSJ reports editor William Power. Read the full report here. For the latest markets news, visit WSJ.com. |
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| | 📊 Measuring This Market: Are We Cheap Yet? |
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 | ILLUSTRATION: THOMAS FUCHS |
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| Eight valuation models suggest that even after recent declines, the U.S. stock market still isn't a good value, writes columnist Mark Hulbert. Assuming the future is like the past, the path of least resistance for the stock market is to decline. |
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| | 💰 Readers' Best Retirement Spending Tips |
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 | | ILLUSTRATION: PAUL BLOW |
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| Plan to be surprised by retirement bills, because you will be. But our Ask Encore readers revealed their secrets on overcoming the retirement-budget dilemma. |
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| | 🔎 Annuities: What to Know |
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 | | ILLUSTRATION: DAN PAGE |
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| Investors are pouring billions of dollars into annuities. Not everyone understands them. Here is how they work. |
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| | 🏡 The New Math of Reverse Mortgages |
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| Many of the negatives for reverse mortgages have been addressed with federal insurance and oversight. At the least, they’re worth considering for people who are cash poor and house rich. |
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| | 📈 The Inflation-Fighting Stocks |
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| Which stocks do best during periods of high inflation? A look at past inflationary periods offers clues on where to invest. |
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| | 📝 More From the Special Report |
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- '529' education-saving funds: What are your options when there is leftover money?
- Stock funds barely avoided the bear. The average U.S.-stock fund fell only slightly for May but only because of a late-month burst. Monthly Monitor.
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| We want to be the first place you go to get ready for the opening bell every day. Today's special edition was produced by William Power in South Brunswick, N.J. The morning newsletter is written and edited by James Willhite (@jimwillhite; james.willhite@wsj.com) in London. |
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