yahoo news | BlackRock’s Larry Fink warns against market timing, says missing best days can h...

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned investors against the temptation to time the market, emphasizing that staying invested through periods of turmoil has historically produced far stronger returns. In his annual chairman’s letter, he noted that over the past two decades every dollar invested in the S&P 500 grew more than eightfold, yet missing just the ten best days would have cut those gains by more than half. Fink argued that “staying invested has mattered far more than getting the timing right,” and pointed to recent market rallies sparked by geopolitical developments as evidence that the strongest market days often occur amid unsettling headlines.

Fink also highlighted broader structural shifts, saying the forces behind today’s headlines have been building for a long time and that the traditional model of global capitalism is fracturing. Nations are increasingly spending huge sums to become self‑reliant in energy, defense, and technology, while rapid advances in artificial intelligence threaten to amplify inequality. He cautioned that AI could concentrate wealth among those who already own assets, as companies tied to AI have driven a disproportionate share of recent equity gains, further concentrating returns among a relatively small group of firms and shareholders.

As the world’s largest asset manager with about $14 trillion in assets under management at the end of 2025, BlackRock’s perspective carries significant weight. Fink’s message is clear: investors should focus on long‑term participation rather than short‑term market noise, because the biggest returns have consistently come from staying the course, even when headlines are unsettling.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/23/blackrocks-larry-fink-warns-against-trying-to-time-the-market-.html

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Enthusiastic review of #Profit in H-Net Reviews!

https://networks.h-net.org/group/reviews/20015103/swayamprakash-stoll-profit-environmental-history

#envhist #environment #Histodons #capitalism #globalcapitalism

I for one would be none-the-happier if the "global bank run" just goes through three banks: SVB, Credit Suisse, and UBS. And would just stop right then & there.

...Because yeah sure the Lehman Brothers bank run in 2008 ruined a lot of lives in the US and at many national economies the world over. But a bank run crisis was what also burned down the Soeharto regime in 1998, here in Indo, w/ physical riots, death & ultraviolence as result.

"Cryptocurrency will save the day"..? Get the dank ferrik out of here with that bantha poodoo. Stupid lazerbrain idiot.

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#fz_thinkingOutLoud / #PsychologyEconomics #PanicBondSelling #GlobalCapitalism

Okay okay hold up, what does Credit Suisse have to do with Silicon Valley Bank..? Completely unrelated, right? Right..?

📰 https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/credit-suisse-writes-down-17-bln-bonds-zero-angering-holders-2023-03-19/

Ugh, I *really*, really hope this isn't the start of a global financial domino. Damn stupid psychological economy. 😓

#fz_links / #GlobalCapitalism #GlobalFinance

"... global capitalism ... [is] in danger of destroying itself from the inside out ... as the economy grows, those who own all the assets get more and more, those who don't get poorer and poorer, and as a result growth slows as the machine grinds to a halt. And the key to stopping this doom loop lies in addressing inequality and productivity."

- #BernardHickey, When the Facts Change #podcast

https://rss.acast.com/when-the-facts-change

#GlobalCapitalism #DoomLoop #inequality #TheSpinoff