The Most Basic Stock Market Tutorial That's Anything But Basic
As we continue with our February series of 10 basic-to-intermediate personal finance and investing articles, inspired by my job with CNN Underscored, this CNN piece might be one of the ones I’m most proud of—
Indexes are among the most important stock market basics for beginners to understand. They help explain the stock market and make it easier to become a long-term investor.
The three most-cited stock market indexes are the Dow Jones Industrial Average, known as “the Dow,” the Standard & Poor’s 500 (S&P 500 for short) and the Nasdaq Composite.
Because we used something relatively advanced to help explain the basics of the stock market. The CNN article goes on to use stock market indexes to detail the starting points for new or inexperienced investors. New and inexperienced doesn’t mean dumb. So I prefer to take the terms you hear thrown around everyday and use them to demystify seemingly complex mechanisms—like the stock market and investing—that are only complex because they’re not something you concern yourself with in the day to day.
Today’s newsletter installment—like the others in this series—places the subject in a Never Retire context.
A quick headsup: The next installment in this series—on earning “passive” income via investing—will appear in
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And among our next few newsletters more from this great city, including a grocery store visit where we replicate a Trader Joe’s run! And more on the increasingly excessive cost of living in America, where it feels like we’re hitting a tipping point (no pun intended).
There’s a synchronicity happening in the media, in some political spheres, on the streets and among our subscribers. We’ll tie it all together.
So, it’s a good time to—
