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WSJ Your Money Briefing

How to Get Off the Investing Sidelines

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

A turbulent spring in the stock market spooked some investors — and now, they’re struggling to get back in. Host Julia Carpenter talks with WSJ’s The Intelligent Investor columnist Jason Zweig about how these same folks can reshape their investing strategy with some much-needed historical perspective.  Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The five-pound meal deal from McDonald's.

0:02.7

Get a cheeseburger or mayo chicken,

0:04.7

medium fries, four McNuggets,

0:06.5

and a medium soft drink for guess what?

0:08.4

That's right, five pounds.

0:11.3

It's not called the five-pound meal deal for nothing.

0:14.8

From 11 a.m.

0:15.8

Not available on delivery.

0:16.8

Carbonated soft drink upgrade fees apply.

0:18.3

Participating restaurants, subjects, availability.

0:22.7

Here's your money briefing for Friday, June 6th.

0:25.6

I'm Julia Carpenter for the Wall Street Journal.

0:30.8

What do you think the opposite of FOMO or the fear of missing out is?

0:36.0

Fogie, the fear of getting in.

0:38.3

And Fogie is all too common among investors these days.

0:42.3

When people sense a high level of uncertainty in the market,

0:47.3

it makes these kinds of decisions more complicated

0:51.3

because often people are making these judgments partly based on what their peers are doing.

0:58.0

And if all your peers are doing is expressing confusion and watching the headlines nonstop, it can be hard to figure out what to do.

1:08.0

After such an up and down few months in the stock market, spooked investors

1:12.1

know they're probably playing it a little too safe. But what's the first step to jumping

1:17.5

back in the fray? We'll talk with WSJ's The Intelligent Investor columnist Jason's Wig about

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