BusinessWeek has some good advice on how to invest during a recession. Their keys:
1. Don’t get rattled by the uncertainty.
2. If you trade stocks, be careful how you do it.
3. Diversify, and go international.
4. Defensive moves might help you relax, but they’ll probably hurt your returns.
5. Make sure you have enough cash
Diversification is the process of spreading your savings among several different asset classes that have different investment objectives and characteristics.This can help reduce risk and protect against the volatility of the market that can result from putting your entire savings into one asset class. Over time, a well-diversified investment mix will usually outperform an investment [...]
The stock markets or equity markets are large market places or trading platforms in the modern sense of the word; where investors buy and sell equity shares [...]
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