Archive for May, 2008
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
GM and Ford shares took a hit today, with GM shares reduced to a new 27 year low. The reason is obvious. The North American auto market is the world's largest and is in the throes of an off year. Japanese auto makers have already reduced estimates ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Investing in oil futures has been extremely lucrative for investors in the last year. In some cases, shrewd investors have seen their return doubled. Crude oil futures can be an investment with a high return, but it's important to understand the basics.
Technical aspects of trading crude oil futures:
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
What are the characteristics of the best small cap stocks? That point is not always clear. Most investors who investigate the best small cap stocks are generally looking to find the next high-flyer while the company is still small. The rewards in such a scenario can be ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Since investors haven't been getting as high of returns lately, they've been looking for more exotic areas to invest in. Of course investments in the area of emerging markets always ends up being an idea. These economies are going through periods of fast growth, so it would stand ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Ethical investing is a subject that's been of great interest to people for years. But one of the big problems was that "ethical" companies tended to fare much worse than their aggressive counterparts. Tobacco companies have traditionally done much better than a small company focused on the humane ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Today HUD (The Department for Housing and Urban Development) announced that they have helped
200,000 troubled homeowners from losing their homes. FHASecure, a program that was recently enhanced by the Bush administration allows consumers with good credit standings to refinance their
ARM (adjustable rate mortgage) into a safer FHA insured ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Brian Gladden has been named the new CEO of Dell.
Brian Gladden will take over on June 13th, when Don Carty, who he is replacing steps down.
Gladden is joining Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) as a senior vice president on Tuesday. ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Recently Microsoft abandoned their bid to buyout Yahoo, but it doesn't appear as if the fight for the internet company is over quite yet.
According to reports, Carl Icahn has swooped in and purchased 50 million shares of Yahoo stock and it's believed Icahn is planning a proxy fight to oust ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Everyone can clearly see that commodity prices are soaring. Yet most of us aren't in a position to invest in commodities directly. This is where a mutual fund or an ETF could come in handy. The advantages of such and ETF seem obvious: individual investors can invest ...
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