Guidant Financial Group Blog

Queue the bugle … commence taps. Microsoft has let Yahoo go. As we are headquartered in Seattle, you can only imagine the amount of buzz that has surrounded this potential takeover. (If you can believe it, we are probably hearing more about it than you!)

It would have been interesting to see how the face of the Internet would have changed had the deal gone through. But it looks like we’ll never know.

After our moment of silence for the death of the deal, we now have to hold onto our hats for the wild ride that’s coming … in the stock market that is (see Yahoo Shares Tumble after Weekend Drama). This kind of speculative market is what drives many an investor to consider a self-directed IRA.

Will the deal go through? Won’t it? Should I invest? Should I not?

You are always going to encounter those questions no matter what you invest in. But when you have options outside the securities market available to you, you can breathe a bit easier knowing that you have at least some of your money in investments that are decidedly less volatile.