Ownership Units: Money and Stocks

ownership units: Forgetting that purchase price matters Since the presidential election, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.60% the S&P 500 SPX, -0.81% the Nasdaq COMP, -0.50% and other major U.S. stock indexes have posted big gains, according to Market Watch. Understandably, you may be wanting to throw money at stocks right now. Emotions can be your worst enemy when it comes to money and stocks, especially during big, rapid market moves that can warp your thinking in unforgiving ways like these 1. Not so fast. Stocks are ownership units of businesses that are worth the profits they deliver in the future. You are guaranteed a worse return with money invested today than you ll get with money invested before the election, when U.S. stocks were considerably cheaper. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.