Key Points The Buffett indicator has accurately predicted past market downturns and is now at its highest level ever. The S&P 500 Shiller CAPE ratio has predicted multiple market crashes and is now at its second-highest level ever. The best thing investors can do is be prepared for a potential market decline while focusing on the long term. These 10 stocks could mint the next wave of millionaires › You've no doubt heard the phrase, "What goes up can come down." This adage continually lurks in the ...

Walking up to The Plaza Hotel's east side entrance, Andrew Ross Sorkin is in his element. Just seconds after his arrival, he dives into what the storied hotel was like a century ago, sending me scrambling to get my recorder out. "In 1929, people would come here and it was insane — every business guy would be here and they would all sort of gawk at each other," he gushes. "You remember the famous Four Seasons, where people would have lunch in the '80s and '90s? This was like that." The Plaza is one of th ...

The chances of the US stock market crashing is far greater than many financiers believe, the head of America’s largest bank has said.Jamie Dimon, who is the chair and chief executive of the giant Wall Street bank JPMorgan Chase, said he was “far more worried than others” about a serious market correction, which he predicted could come in the next six months to two years.“I would give it a higher probability than I think is probably priced in the market and by others,” he told the BBC. “So if the market’s pr ...

Crash odds are elevated when an industry or sector outperforms the market significantly. - MarketWatch photo illustration/iStockphoto October doesn’t deserve its reputation as the month when stock-market crashes occur. Though the two worst crashes in U.S. history happened in that month — 1929 and 1987 — the risk of a marketwide crash is no greater in October than in any other month. Investors worried about a broad market crash in October can perhaps take a bigger sigh of relief. The same cannot be said o ...