Succeeding in the stock market doesn't require one to pick the best individual businesses for their portfolio. Thousands of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) exist that can help automate the investing ...

If last week's trillion-dollar slide of major tech stocks felt familiar, it's because we've been here before—when hype about innovation last ran headlong into economic reality.

If investors want broad access to the stock market in their portfolios, they usually direct their attention to the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC). The popular benchmark is a gauge to measure the ...