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Personal Finance and Investing

question everything

(50,561 posts) Sat Oct 6, 2018, 12:11 AM Oct 2018

Trying to be conservative at 50:50 and both stock and bond funds, domestic and international lost.

Hope this is not the October curse..

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Lost about 2% of our retirement accounts this week [View all] question everything Oct 2018 OP

About the same brokephibroke Oct 2018 #1

Well, was lucky to sell beginning of the month question everything Oct 2018 #5

Gained about 1.5% on ours. JayhawkSD Oct 2018 #3

S&P 500 down 0.97% over the past week progree Oct 2018 #4

2% isn't that much, but as someone else has pointed out, PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2018 #7