401(k) PlansI've been in and interested in the stock market so long (one year shy of forty years) I can remember when the Mutual Fund pages in my home town paper were just one page! (The DOW was under 700.) Now it looks like there are more Mutual Funds then there are stocks listed on the New York stock exchange. I wonder how many billions of investor dollars are supporting these funds. How many investor dollars are supporting all the brokerage firms? [More] | 4 Things to Remember as a NewbieA good habit to learn is to make consecutive backups of all your work to an external source such as disc, floppy, thumb drive....the choices are many. It is a fact that any storage device will eventually brake down and the information on it will be lost, and in knowing that we should determine the best cause of action to prevent that we loose our vital information. I recommend getting a USB thumb drive with enough space for all your work (homepages, articles...you name it..). [More] | The Value of Stocks of a CompanyWe say that the stocks of the two companies have different elasticity (their prices move up and down differently), probably the result of different sensitivities to changes in interest rates and in earnings estimates. But this is just to rename the problem. The question remains: why? Why do the shares of similar companies react differently? [More] |
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Management Shake-Up for Sharper Image
Specialty electronics retailer Sharper Image (SHRP) is in the news today; the firm said its chairman and chief executive officer, Richard Thalheimer, would vacate his post amid slumping sales numbers...(Winners and Losers for Week Ending 09/15/06
A few big winners this week…
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