1 Dividend Stock Yielding 8% to Buy in Case of a Bear Market
Altria(MO) The Motley Fool·2024-10-11 09:02
A cheap starting valuation can help balance out your portfolio during bouts of volatility.It might not seem like it today with market indexes rocketing to all-time highs, but bear markets do exist. They happen around once a decade and are defined as a period when an index such as the S&P 500 falls 20% or more from all-time highs.One happened in 2022 (it seems so long ago) as well as briefly in 2020. Before that, there were bear markets in 2009, 2001, and 1990. When stock prices are soaring, it can feel like ...