RetireJapan

Many financial books demonstrated the power of compound interest and how the US stock market index average 8-10% interest annually. I'm now looking to put this into practice but puzzled how it'll actually work for ETFs with no dividends. For example, I am looking into eMAXIS Slim funds that many peo...

Wow, thank you for the replies!

Right, so it seems there are so many factors that influence the stock market in the short term that it's impossible to predict what will happen.

I'll follow the advice here and from the books to invest for the long term with diverse index funds then

Hey everyone, I'm new to investing and started reading and learning 2-3 weeks back (Quite overwhelming!). Question: Why the Japan stock market (Nikkei 225) is going up despite the state emergency come into effect? I'd imagine state emergency means many retail, restaurants and transportation companie...