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  • Gather in the Stops: An Investment Strategy

    While large numbers of stock market investors leave their portfolios in the hands of investment advisors while remaining passive with regard to stock market manipulation, these very ...

  • SEC Form 10-K: A Mine of Valuable Information

    In the current economic climate, stock market investors need all the help they can get in making sound investment decisions. An invaluable decision making aid is the Form 10-K that public ...

  • Third Quarter Reporting Continues Driving the Market

    As we head into the third week of October, reporting of third quarter results is set to start speeding up, with investors having great expectations spurred on by better than expected reports ...

  • The Dow Breaks the 10,000 Barrier

    Although many see it more as a psychological breakthrough for investors rather than a technical achievement, the fact that the Dow rose above the 10,000 point mark for the first time since ...

  • Investors Hopeful for Dow to Pass Five-Digit Mark

    Friday saw stock market indicators closing at their highest level in a year as Alcoa kicked off the third quarter earnings season by reporting an unanticipated profit. Additional factors ...

  • Fundamental Analysis in Investing

    A dictionary definition of the word "fundamental" describes it as "being an essential part of, a foundation or basis" and this is certainly true when it comes to fundamental analysis in ...

  • US Economy in Recovery Despite Rising Unemployment Rate

    While stock has retreated in the past two weeks, optimists are quick to point out that in comparison to the advance over the past seven months or so, the retreat can be considered as ...

  • Case-Shiller Index Reviews US Housing Market

    Investors and analysts have a number of tools at hand to assist them in day-to-day investment decisions. One of these is the Case-Shiller index with which house sales, housing prices and ...

  • Third Quarter Earnings Loom Ahead

    Friday saw stocks on Wall Street falling for the third straight session, after having enjoyed a fairly consistent rally since the lows of March. It would appear that investors reacted ...

  • Monopoly, Oligopoly & Duopoly

    A monopoly has been defined as a situation where, due to lack of competition or the availability of a substitute product/service, a single enterprise can determine the terms, such as price and ...

  • Dow Jones Sustainability World Index – A Guide to Socially-Conscious Investments

    Each September since 1999 the well-respected market index company, Dow Jones & Company, has released its Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, being the top ten percent of the largest of the ...

  • A Year After Lehman Collapse & Business As Usual on Wall Street

    A five day rally on Wall Street was brought to an abrupt end on Friday, with the Dow Jones industrial average losing 21 points, the Standard & Poor’s 500 index losing 1 point and the Nasdaq ...

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