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Are Jews allowed to make stock market investments?

Bob Gorman August 23, 2017

Wall St hammered; S&P 500 hits lowest since Oct 2014

Jewish Journal January 15, 2016

U.S. stock indexes notched deep losses in volatile trading on Friday, with the S&P 500 hitting its lowest since October 2014 and the Dow losing more than 500 points, as oil prices dived below $30 per barrel.

Wall Street has worst day in four years, S&P now in correction

Jewish Journal August 24, 2015

U.S. stock indexes plunged almost 4 percent on Monday as investors, rattled about China\’s economy, sold heavily in an unusually volatile session that confirmed the S&P 500 was formally in a correction.

Buffett points the way

Jewish Journal November 17, 2011

Warren E. Buffett is the second-richest person in the United States (after Microsoft’s Bill Gates), so when he purchased an Israeli-based stock not long ago, investors throughout the world sat up and took notice. What made it more newsworthy is that it was Buffett’s first major foray into overseas investing. Up to that point, he said he could always find good stocks here at home.

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange plunges on U.S. credit downgrade

Jewish Journal August 8, 2011

The Tel Aviv Stock Market experienced its largest one-day loss in nearly three years in reaction to the downgrade of the U.S. credit rating.

Don’t Stress About Your Stock Portfolio

Russell Wild July 28, 2005

Rabbi Benjamin Blech, author of \”Taking Stock: A Spiritual Guide to Rising Above Life\’s Financial Ups and Downs\” (AMACOM, 2003), wonders mostly how he ever got so frenzied about money — both its gain, and its loss. Of course, he is not alone. Perhaps you didn\’t sink your nest egg into dot-com stocks, but chances are very good that money — or lack of it — sometimes throws you off kilter.