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The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) Price as of 4/29/2011: $67.46 12 Month Target Estimate: $75 – 80 Trailing P/E Ratio: 13.3 Current Dividend Yield: 2.8% Recommendation: BUY Overview: The Coca-Cola Company is the world’s largest …

You’re thinking of investing in a second home! If you’re a Floridian maybe you long for the cool mountains of the Carolinas. If you’re a northerner maybe it’s a condo on the beach in Florida. …

The lowdown on Stock Markets /   A Primer on Stock Market Investing The most common parlance used in business and financial sectors worldwide, is perhaps ‘the stock market’. The frenzy wrapped around this phrase has …

Binary Options A binary option is when a buyer enters into a contract to purchase an underlying asset at a fixed price at a pre-determined time in the future. Different from buying stocks and shares …

An autosurfing or hyip is a type of online investment where you pay a certain amount, and you get a variable return on your investment. Since it is online, many of the investment programs are …

In yet another sign that the United States economy is still a shadow of what it used to be, some alarming news was just released.  The sale of new homes in the year 2010 fell …

Plains All American Pipeline (NYSE: PAA), is ready to feed our insatiable appetite for energy. Despite our best efforts to promote conservation, what we really want is more. As Plains All American Pipeline, headquartered in …

At first, investing may seem like a daunting and stressful task, but once you take a step back, analyze what you want out of investing and gain some basic knowledge, it is rather exhilarating to …

Many Americans think that the only IRA investments allowed in the retirement account include stocks, CD’s and mutual funds. But the truth is that there are more IRA investment options that are available to the …

Of the two things in life everyone can count on, taxes can bring to mind the most questions and doubts for many. The primary difference between Ordinary Income and Capital Gains is the method in …

How Forex Trading software can impact your long-term profitability Why trade the Forex market using software? Can it help? How will it impact your long-term profitability? All of these questions are reasonable questions for the …

Buying a second can be a privilege with sufficient income. But if you took out another loan to buy the second home, then there are some drawbacks of buying a second home. The following are …

A Comparison Between Open-End Mutual Funds and Closed-End Mutual Funds I’m sure many people didn’t even know there was a difference, and further, if you own mutual funds – do you know if they are …

Opening a stock trading account is a pretty simple process once you know what you are looking for. With stock trading accounts you have a couple different options to explore. You can go with a …

Some say that it is best to learn from experience, but when it comes to finance and investing it can be much more prudent to learn from the mistakes of others. Take a look at …

Equity in relation to finance can be defined as the ‘interest ownership in a property’. In a balance sheet this usually is depicted separately along with two other entities which are known as ‘assets’ and …

Anyone that has been investing long enough has probably heard the term level 2 or L2 thrown around numerous times.  Level 2 is discussed frequently because it is not only a tool but a critical …

Rising Short Sales on the Market, and the Challenges they present It’s no secret that short sale listings have drastically increased in very little time. This increase can be blamed on a number of factors: …

The idea of paying off a mortgage can be extremely appealing as people dream of owning their own home and being free from a large amount of mortgage debt.  Of course, mortgages are long-term commitments, …

In the United Kingdom, Preference shares are traded investments on the stock market that are similar to ordinary shares but the nature of the investments is slightly different. Many financial institutions have raised cash from …

Accenture (NYSE:ACN) is the world’s largest consulting firm. Besides consulting, it has thriving technology services, and outsourcing industries. The industries include Communications, Electronics and High Tech, Media and Entertainment; Banking, Capital Markets, Insurance; Automotive, Air, …

For the Government to get in the ring and try to further regulate hedge funds would be like me trying to referee a Cricket game. I could probably go in there and just assume this …

Investing in Multi-Family Residential Real Estate: The Importance of Solid Management Many people have been able to make a great deal of money through the ownership of multi-family investment real estate. One factor that all …

There will always be a way to exploit those who can be exploited. What do I mean by that and how does it relate to trading the Forex market using an automated trading system? People …

Many stockbrokers are able to offer a range of advisory, trading and discretionary fund management services to their clients. Execution only trading involves stripping their services to the core and using the broker for nothing …

Treasury Direct is the U.S. Government administered website that allows individuals and organizations to purchase bonds directly from the Government at any time. Purchasing bonds through Treasury Direct is a relatively simple process, but does …

On a typical trading day the stock market will veer up and down and settle on some minor peak or trough with an equal number of traders either making a small gain or taking a mild hit. In …

In the world of real estate there are two types of investors; private real estate investors like those people that own homes, and then there is the  commercial real estate investor. Buying a home is …

When you Invest at the Bottom, When do you sell We’ve all heard the famous saying, “Buy Low, Sell High”. But what does that really mean? What is high enough? Deciding when to take your …

Political endorsement of an industry, and how you can capitalize from political capital. Was there ever really any doubt once George W. Bush became the 45th President of the United States, that oil companies would …