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If you’ve never paid attention to Beta (β) (or “B”) before, listen up. Even if you don’t consider yourself a technical analyst or a seasoned investor, or if you are just getting into stocks now, beta is fairly easy to understand and can help you with your stock picking decisions.
Beta is a mathematical measurement of [...]
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Today’s online discount brokerage investor may never have had the experience of seeing or touching an old-school stock certificate like the one in my previous post on canceling your DRIPs.
Ownership of stocks today usually falls in the hands of the broker you buy and sell through. When the broker holds the stocks for you, it’s [...]
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Last Friday, the final trading day of October 2009, saw triple-digit losses following the previous day’s excellent U.S. GDP numbers. Are traders and institutional investors just taking money off the table for some profits? Or will this be the beginning of the retrenchment that we didn’t see in September or October?
One thing that is for [...]
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Historically, September is the worst overall month for stock market returns. And since 2009 has already seen a great stock market rally, some analysts think we’re due for the obligatory pullback and consolidation next month. So if you’re looking to do any purchasing, you might want to keep a close eye on the markets and [...]
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Obama and others freaked out yesterday at what came in as worsening US economic data and the lowest stocks on record for any January in the stock market history. The “fresh U.S. economic blow” is a “disaster”, Obama says. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped another 148 points (a 500-point drop is what happened in [...]
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