Just because you have to endure recessionary conditions doesn’t mean your money has to. Ironically, your money doesn’t have to travel all that far: What’s arguably the world’s “safest economy” is actually located just north of the U.S. border. With that hint, you know we’re talking about investing in Canada. That’s the contention of Martin Hutchinson, a contributing editor to the investment e-newsletter Money Morning.

Canada really has a lot in common with its neighbor just to the south—except for two major differences: 1) Canada’s economy is backed by a rich cache of oil, gold and other in-demand natural resources; and More…

Batten down the hatches, ye hearty investors. Brazil, darling of the world financial press and the poster child for emerging-markets investing, is heading directly into the eye of a storm.

Until now, Brazil has provided investors with a thoroughly rewarding run. But with this BRIC country — the acronym refers to the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China — now clearly running into trouble, it’s time to trim any holdings you may have, says Martin Hutchinson of the investment e-newsletter Money Morning. More…

Your humble blogger now sits chastised and even more humbled. My post on Tuesday, Aug. 31, noted that the S&P 500 stock index had tumbled about 7 percent over the previous three weeks. I then posed the question to our investing readers whether you thought this was the beginning of yet another market correction. If you thought it was, what might your short-term strategy be? Well, you certainly saw what happened the next day: The Dow rocketed more than 250 points More…

So what’s your take on this little stock market swoon of late? Should investors be worried that we’re due for another period of weakness in equities as some of the wind seems to have come out of the sails of the economic recovery? Since August 9, the S&P 500 has shed almost 80 points, as of the close of trading on August 31, a drop of more than 7 percent. More…

Thursday’s (May 20) plunge in all the major stock-market indices — the Dow was down more than 376 points — has investors wondering if this is an overblown correction or the beginning of another true bear market. Thursday’s staggering drop — the fifth down day in the last six trading sessions More…

It’s being called the “Flash Crash” — those gut-wrenching minutes just after 2:30 on the afternoon of Thursday, May 6, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted almost 1,000 points before regaining more than half that loss before the day’s close. More…

As 2009 wound down, some of our WEALTH readers made back the money lost after the stock market panic. Others found new opportunities for growth. WEALTH magazine wants to know: How did you invest last year? Where did you put your money, and did your wealth-building efforts work? Share your best strategies with the WEALTH community and pick up some tips here.