What effect on the broad market indices? If any?

What happens with a Republican landslide? Democratic "win"?

Do the markets react? Yawn? Are they only paying attention to Yellen?

Should we be sitting out the markets right now anyway?

What says the MT?

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Posted by white perch

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Posted on 10/22/14 at 3:58 pm to Sid in Lakeshore

MT standard answer - put your money into vanguard admiral shares and don't look at it again for 30 years.

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Posted by Sid in Lakeshore

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Posted on 10/22/14 at 4:28 pm to white perch

I'm in a "Lifecycle" fund that spreads my investments over several broad based funds that track:

-S&P 500
-non-S&P (Dow Jones U.S. Completion Total Stock Market Index)
-Foreign Markets (Morgan Stanley EAFE index)
-Bond fund (Barclays Capital U.S. Aggegate Bond Index)
-US Treasuries

So it's a pretty conservative measure of the US and World economies. Unless the world ends, I'm OK.

I'm just wondering if there is some skittishness in the markets about the elections. I really do not think so. Not much will change. The next Presidential election will be interesting, though.

Wonder if the Dems will tighten up the money supply leading up to the next election.

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Posted by TechDawg2007

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Posted on 10/22/14 at 6:22 pm to white perch

quote:
vanguard admiral shares

Explain this please

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Posted by bayoubengals88

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Posted on 10/22/14 at 6:29 pm to TechDawg2007

Once you exceed $10,000 in most (if not all) Vanguard funds you will be eligible for "admiral shares" and the advantage is an EXTREMELY low expense ratio.

This post was edited on 10/22/14 at 6:31 pm

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