Here's your Money Briefing for Friday, June 6th.
I'm Julia Carpenter for The Wall Street Journal.
What do you think the opposite of FOMO, or the fear of missing out, is?
FOGI, the fear of getting in.
And FOGI is all too common among investors these days.
When people sense a high level of uncertainty in the market,
It makes these kinds of decisions more complicated
because often people are making these judgments partly based on what their peers are doing.
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.
After such an up and down few months in the stock market,
spooked investors know they're probably playing it a little too safe.
But what's the first step to jumping back in the fray?
We'll talk with WSJ's The Intelligent Investor columnist, Jason Zweig,
about how to conquer phobia and maybe even how to use it to your advantage.
That's after the break.
Investors haven't had a quiet 2025.
After the Trump administration's tariff plan sent the market into a tailspin earlier this spring,
some investors decided to pull out rather than play ball.
And others had taken a step back even earlier.