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Should I Sell My Stocks?

If during a two week summer vacation, you heard that there was an escalation of tensions between the US and Korea; two international terrorist attacks; a US domestic terrorist attack; a looming debt ceiling crisis; and political upheaval in the White House, you might think that US stock markets would be in free-fall. You would be mistaken. Although markets were down over the most recent fortnight, the damage was fairly limited—about two percent overall. Even with the recent declines, the S&P 500 remains 8.3 percent higher on the year and just 2.2 percent below its record high, while the NASDAQ is up 15.5 percent in 2017. Given these numbers, its not surprising that the most frequently asked question that I have fielded over the past month has been, “I can’t believe that market is doping so well, considering (fill in the blank)…SHOULD I SELL MY STOCKS?”

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