Investors are concerned as the Euro Zone increases its lending limit again. The first concern is that there needs to be an increased lending limit. The second is that the extra €200 billion will not be enough to stop the Euro Zone from sliding back into financial chaos. A third concern is that as the [...]
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The United States is slowly but surely emerging from the recession. According to the Department of Labor 227,000 new jobs were added to the US economy in February of this year. Certainly, companies with growing business and growing profits add employees, but can one make stock profits from increasing employment numbers? We are turning the [...]
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Read More...Is it time to embrace or avoid gold as an investment? Gold bullion has been rising in price for over a decade. Is there no end in sight? Will the world economy collapse taking all fiat currencies with it? Or, will the situation of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s repeat itself. Whether to choose [...]
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Read More...Is Facebook a good investment? The social media company is expected to announce that it will go public with an initial public offering, IPO, valued at around $5 Billion. If you are a big institutional investor and favored client of Morgan Stanley, who will be handling the IPO, you get to buy Facebook stock at [...]
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Read More...There are various forms of real estate investing. How does real estate investing work, in general? Finding a good property at a low price and selling at a profit is the basis of success in real estate investing. However, there are a number of answers to how does real estate investing work depending upon how [...]
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Read More...Hedge fund raids and investing are in the news with several recent raids by the FBI on fund offices. According to various press reports and commentary the SEC, long criticized for laxity in oversight, has changed gears. Rather than looking to prosecute individuals who have bought and sold stock based upon non-public information, the SEC [...]
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Read More...Beginning investors will ask “what is the first step to investing?” They are typically looking for a stock tip or some piece of investment wisdom that will quickly and easily make them rich. The answer to the question, “what is the first step to investing” starts before that and may seem unassociated with investing, but [...]
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Read More...Equity investing refers to buying and holding shares of a stock listed on a stock market, partial ownership of a private company, ownership of shares in a startup company that has not yet been listed on a stock exchange. Equity investing in startup companies is also called venture capital investing. It carries both high risk [...]
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Read More...Investing in innovation sounds like a good idea but the concept can be problematic. A recent news article from Connecticut comes to mind as well as President Nixon’s “War on Cancer” nearly 40 years ago. Connecticut has passed a number of laws offering incentives to bioscience companies and to municipalities with a major research university [...]
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Read More...Image via Wikipedia There are a number of attractive options for investing in gold and there are pitfalls. Gold stock investing includes mining companies and derivatives. Many gold bugs will say that how to invest in the stock market during hard economic times is to invest in gold. However, the true gold bug will advise [...]
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