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Biotech stocks have been in a downward spiral this week after comments from Hillary Clinton. She also created a buying opportunity.

A conservative advisory designed to make you money and safeguard your portfolio from damaging losses—regardless of market conditions.

This “focus on the simple” brings me to one of my favorite sayings in the stock market, which I got from the book, The Perfect Speculator (I highly recommend it): “It’s hardest to keep things simplest.”

England has been changing, and rapidly. In recent decades, it’s absorbed hundreds of thousands of immigrants from India, Poland, Pakistan and China (to name the top four). It’s now the third most crowded nation in Europe, after the Netherlands and Belgium.

I don’t have any historical data, but I know that the practice of senior corporate executives getting part of their compensation in company stock has been around for a long time.

The bottom line is that the Fed sat on its hands after its Thursday meeting, leaving interest rates in the 0%–0.25% range they have occupied for seven years, give or take. The one item from the Fed’s announcement of its delay that has captured investors’ attention is the expression that came after reassurances that risks to the U.S. economic activity and the labor market are “nearly balanced” But the sentence went on to say that the Fed “is monitoring developments abroad.”

The top hedge fund managers in the world are as confused about the stock and bond markets as the rest of us. So what do they, and we, do in times like this? Tread very carefully. Don’t force trades just to have some “action.” Similarly, don’t be in a rush to buy the dip or sell the rip.