A beginner-friendly tour of the biggest stock market crashes in history, why they happened, and the calm, practical lessons new investors can use today.

The S&P 500 slumped 1.6% last week — but bad first weeks in November usually don’t hang over the stock market.

Range reports on market momentum and fundamentals, urging caution as signs of speculation and volatility emerge despite strong YTD gains.

The process of pricing and re-pricing realities old and new never stops, and next week promises to be at least as exciting as this week.

The U.S. government shutdown has ended and the S&P 500 has been pushing against resistance at 6,900 (the all-time highs). The first support is at 6,630, and below that is strong support at 6,500 to 6,550.

I’ve long been a proponent of diversification, and investing for the long-term in a structured and coherent fashion. Up until recently, most investors looking to create diversified portfolios had to do so on their own,

Hedge fund billionaire Michael Burry recently made a billion-dollar bet against Palantir and Nvidia, two of the most popular artificial intelligence (AI) stocks.

There’s also optimism about corporate earnings, a reasonably healthy U.S. economy, and expectations the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates on Wednesday, and all this means the S&P 500 SPX is likely to register its 35th record high of the year.