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Meet the Monster Stock that Continues to Crush the Market

There's a lot of growth ahead in the sector. stocks we like better than Digital Realty Trust › The stock market has done very well over the years. The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) has gained 235% over the last decade (12.9% annualized) and 640% over the past 20 years (10.5% annualized).

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Ken Griffin Says "Holding Cash Would've Been the Best." But Is Defense Really the Right Play for Long-Term Investors?

Ken Griffin's comments show that there can be benefits to holding cash. There are good arguments both for being fully invested and for keeping some dry power on the sidelines, and the volatility of the current stock market with a trade war brewing and the risk of a recession rising is causing some investors to rethink their strategies. One of them is Ken Griffin, the head of Citadel, which is generally considered to be the best-performing hedge fund of all time.

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Trading Day: Bond alarms ring louder

Investors' unease about holding long-dated sovereign debt was magnified by a soft 20-year U.S. Treasury note auction on Wednesday, which slammed the dollar and stocks, pushed long bond yields higher and steepened the U.S. yield curve. In my column today I take a closer look at the rising term premium on U.S. debt. Weak U.S. economic outlook persists despite brief tradetruce with China 2.

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