2009 Best List: Financial Resources & Advice

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2009 Best List: Investing

Protect your portfolio, your pocketbook and your conscience.

Rational Exuberance

There is absolutely no reason to be pessimistic about either the U.S. or the world economy.

How to Limit Big Losses

A fund’s volatility is a terrific predictor of how it will perform in a bear market.

7 Ways to Protect Your Stock-Market Gains

From increasing your cash holdings to buying options, we show you how to guard against a correction -- or worse.

Be a Better Investor

Outsmart your emotions, cut your fees, keep it simple­ -- and reap higher returns.

7 More Ways Your Money Will Never Be the Same

A lot has changed since the recession, including the roles stocks and bonds play in investors' portfolios.

Housing's Shaky Upturn

You can't unwind the biggest asset bubble in history overnight—or even in a year.

How to Profit From the Dollar's Descent

Find shelter in a fund that invests heavily in foreign bonds, such as Loomis Sayles Bond. Steer clear of most other “safe havens.”

The Case Against Commodities

Sold as a diversification tool, they failed badly last year -- and will fail to protect you again if the market turns south.

Profit From Scandal

Bad news sometimes makes a stock untouchable -- sometimes it creates opportunities.

Want Dividends? Look Overseas

Foreign stocks provide a world of opportunities for income.

Why the Dow Is a Dumb Index

What Now for the Dow

We rate all 30 stocks -- buy, sell or hold.

Stocks That Grow in Any Climate

These seven companies flourished in hard times and will thrive as things get better.

6 Lessons From the Bear

We learned the hard way that few companies' earnings are immune to a terrible economy.

Wall Street Is Right

Investors know that previous recessions have never held down the U.S. economy for long.

Tasty Returns From Emerging Markets

Add international flavor to your portfolio with fast-growing foreign stocks.

Ride This Bull Market

If you've been on the sidelines, it's time to buy stocks. Here's why.

Playing the China Card

Your retirement portfolio should hold shares of companies in this rapidly growing economy.

Has the Rally Gotten Ahead of Itself?

We asked five leading value managers. Three say yes. Two say stocks are fairly valued.

5 Stable Tech Stocks You Should Love

These big, reliable technology companies will be top beneficiaries as businesses worldwide retool to cope with the tough economy.

Stocks Back from the Dead

Shares of these ten companies have risen from the grave this year but not all are worth buying.

5 Big Risks to Your Portfolio Now

Despite the market's rebound and the recession's likely end, dangers still lurk for stocks.

Interview: John Hussman

Market observation -- not market timing -- helps the manager of a top-performing fund.

Alternatives to Market Timing

Four ways to fiddle without making all-or-nothing bets.

Buy and Hold? You Bet

Over periods of 20 years or longer, stocks have never lost money, even after inflation.

A Better Way to Get Your Fix

The coffee habits of Americans are changing, but you can still profit.

Financial Reform: What to Expect

An insider speaks on ways to restore investor confidence.

Stocks That Pay Rising Dividends

We pick seven companies that regularly boost their payouts.

4 Safe Industrial Stocks

They're not exciting, but shares of these companies remain cheap -- and should thrive even as U.S. consumer spending remains anemic.

Another Sharp Market Drop? Not Likely

July's quarterly results are good enough to lead us to believe that the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index will gain 10% or more by year-end.

Feeding Emerging Markets' Growth

These six companies profit as more and more people in rapidly developing countries change their diets.

Israel Earns an Upgrade

MSCI Barra will classify Israel as a developed market, which could give some stocks a boost.

Want Dividends? Look Overseas

International stocks tend to offer higher payouts than shares of U.S. companies.

4 Cheap Stocks to Buy Now

Low-risk blue chips in health care and defense are bargains. So is Fairholme fund.

6 Health-Care Stocks That Make Sense

These companies should prosper, regardless of whether the health-care system is reformed.

Tech Leads the Market Rebound

A top-ranked fund manager tells which stocks to buy.

Pint-Size Stock Pickers

Students at this school have a vested interest in the market.

Watch for the Upturn

When three of our indicators show steady improvement, an economic recovery is imminent.