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Don’t be a sitting duck when this stock market rally fades — here’s what you should do now

Buy-the-dip investment is a strategy that can pay off – until the market keeps plunging. Then you’ll need a plan

Don’t be a sitting duck when this stock market rally fades — here’s what you should do now
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Stock investors got a dose of harsh reality earlier this month when the major US market indexes declined and took many of their favourite stocks with them, including the so-called “generals”: Facebook, Amazon.com, Apple, Netflix, Alphabet, Walt Disney, Intel and Tesla.

The three-day selloff was a stark reminder that stocks are not bulletproof. One catalyst in this case was US inflation spiking to a 13-year peak. Institutional investors do not take kindly to inflation and they sold.

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