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Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

Coronavirus: Best to Use Index Funds?

Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

Audacy

Self-improvement, Business, Investing, Education

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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If you're lucky enough to have some extra cash and you want to open a brokerage account, what's the best way to invest? Individual stocks? Index funds? ETFs? Have a money question? Email me here. Please leave us a rating or review in Apple Podcasts. "Jill on Money" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Jill On Money Coronovirus Market update. It is the beginning of a work week. It is Monday. And that just means it's one week until Memorial Day and if that just seems so bizarre to you

0:17.2

it is even more bizarre to me because I feel like time is standing still and yet time is

0:24.3

elapsing very existential this morning.

0:27.5

Anyway, this is the program that attempts

0:30.4

to take the mystery out of these very scary and trying times and Mark and I

0:36.6

decided to create this daily podcast because so many of you had questions every single day as soon as the market volatility began and all these different programs began alongside the Cares Act and the government intervention and the Fed intervention and so what has

0:56.6

been gratifying to us is that so many of you have reached out and it's really been fantastic. So if you've got a financial question, please do not hesitate.

1:09.3

Send us an email. It's Ask Jill at Jill on Money.com. And if you're on the website, Jill on Money.com.

1:13.0

And if you're on the website Jill on Money.com,

1:16.0

you can always find us.

1:18.0

Just hit the contact button.

1:19.0

It's in the upper right-hand corner.

1:21.0

Interesting. This is a week in terms of economic data where we're going to have a bunch of

1:26.5

information about housing. I was looking at this New York Federal Reserve survey which found that a lot of you know a third of Americans

1:35.9

said their own household financial situation would be worse in a year and that's the highest

1:40.6

level on record that they fear job loss and low expectations for income and spending and the ability to get credit.

1:47.2

But interesting on the housing front, for the first time since the survey was launched, which was back in 2013,

1:54.8

respondents do not expect home prices to increase over the next year.

2:00.5

I don't know, I'm thinking that I might take the other side of that bet. I'm not sure that the

2:06.2

housing market's going to be hit as hard. Maybe it will be. Put it this way. If I were looking

2:11.2

for a house, I wouldn't let house, I wouldn't let this time dissuade me.

2:16.0

As long as I've run my numbers and I've worked hard to be clear that my job and my income is relatively stable, I'd go ahead.

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