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Why CONVID-19 is Your Perfect Start to Investing

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Why CONVID-19 is Your Perfect Start to Investing We live in uncertain times, folks. With the current COVID-19 situation unfolding globally, Americans are seeing once stable pillars in their day to day lives collapse in on themselves. One of the more prominent pillars of livelihood would be our economic state, or more specifically, the state of the stock market. Less than 1 month before the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the US, we were seeing record high values and massive gains from major players in the market, now most of those stock values have plummeted from their peak value, with some dropping as low as 40% from prime valuation. Disney's values have fluctuated from $140.37 a share on February 20th, 2019, to its current share price of $89.94, including a surprising drop this past week to a flat $80.00/share on March 18th. Westwood Holdings (WHG), known for its massive dividend yields, had its comfortable share price of $21.76 cut in half from March 10th, to...