Investing Archive

Recently it has been announced that Microsoft (MSFT) will release a free antivirus application that will replace the aged Microsoft live OneCare suite. This application is currently code-named “Morro”, but as to a specific launch …

Finding money market and financial tools that give high interest rates is a dilemma that most people face. The so called risk-reward ratio keeps people from investing and putting their hard earned money on seemingly …

Reducing taxes through ‘tax free investments’ may be a good idea when one wants to increase financial leverage of one’s income and/or lower taxable income for a given year via a lower tax bracket ex …

Beating the market is easy. The problem is that most investors go at it the wrong way! It is almost impossible to pick a series of individual investments that beats the market, since you would …

The U.S. Government is the largest borrower in the world; its debt load is well over seven trillion dollars and this number keeps getting higher due to deficit trend rising in recent years. The Government …

To succeed in investing, one of the most basic and fundamental concepts investors have to understand is the inverse relationship between bond prices and interest rates. This forms the base of many investing strategy assumptions …

The recent decline of the U. S stock market and financial markets around the world, since the Dow Jones reached record high of 14,000 in July 2007, attributed by many investors and financial analyst by …

Over the past several years, since the American credit crisis, central bankers around the world have been intervening in the bond markets unusually aggressively. Their goal has been to stabilize the markets and get private …

Before investing in Vera Bradley (VRA), you should know more about the company. Vera Bradley is a producer, marketer, and retailer of quilted cotton luggage, handbags, and accessories, such as cosmetic bags, scarves, and wallets. …

One of the many great excitements of the current times are the elections. Candidates bickering back and forth who can fix what and how. What we all care about the most is who can make …

Why worry about your investment style? After all, you have easy access to high quality analysis and research, up to the minute market information, and tens of thousands of mutual funds all vying for your …

One minute you are checking your email, the next your computer reboots itself. Then it reboots again. It continuously reboots over and over. It’s another virus. Computer viruses cannot be overlooked, so many people and …

It’s never too early to start learning about investments, and any enthusiasm you can share with a child will (you know I’m going to stoop to this one) pay dividends in the long run. However, …

As a former Mutual Fund Investment Adviser, I have talked to thousands of people all across North America about Mutual Funds. Mutual Funds can be very complicated and overwhelming. This can prevent many people from …

When the Thatcher government introduced the right to buy scheme for council house tenants, the best of the council house stock was bought up. Some neighbourhoods underwent much improvement as previous tenants became more committed …

Stock market investing has several unique attributes and factors in comparison with the bond market. In the bond market, the bond holder simply lends money at a fixed rate/term and is interested in securing the …

NASDAQ (acronym for National Association of securities Dealers Automatic Quotation system) is the largest electronic screen based equally securities market in the U.S founded on February 8, 1971 by the National association of securities dealers. …

Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC) is a company which produces and generates electricity, providing power to over 5.4 million customers in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. The company was formed after a 2000 merger between Unicom …

Definition: A Bond is a contracted debt that obligates the borrower to pay periodical interest (except zero coupon bond) and to repay principal at maturity to lender. The borrower is the issuer of the bond,the …

A “lien” is a form of security interest where property is used to ensure repayment of a loan or performance of some other contractual obligation.  Think mortgage, for instance. A “tax lien” is when the …

In the world of investing there are many expressions and phrases that are commonly used among professionals, but that can sometimes seem quite confusing to the general public. While not as bewildering as the actual …

It was supposed to signal a new era: Social media meets Wall Street. It was the launch of the initial public offering (IPO) of the stock of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB). On May 18, 2012, its …

It is difficult to define what property is the best for investment purposes, but if you are a developer or a builder there are key factors that can impact the true value of the property. …

Investing Opportunities in Gold A few months back it was hard to believe that gold prices could go past $1000 an ounce so soon. When they did, it was a surprise. Anyway the expectation is …

An annual return is simply the annual rate of return of an investment. This annual rate of return is measured as a percentage. Generally the annual return takes into consideration whether or not the mutual …

Real estate investment can be a scary and exciting risk. Whether purchasing a commercial or residential property to build a project, investing to develop a rental portfolio, or purchasing a property to flip, there are …

Investment Appraisal also known as Capital Budgeting is used to asses whether capital expenditure on a particular project will be beneficial for the entity or not. These techniques can be used to evaluate projects both …

Established for more than a century, AT&T is one of the world’s largest telecommunications corporations. Head-quartered in Dallas, Texas the corporation, which has a global workforce of approaching 260,000 thousand, has operations and provides telecommunications …

According to The Economic Times, the annual report of a company is an important document aimed at the informational needs of a company’s stakeholders, potential stakeholders, creditors, customers, suppliers, economists, financial analysts etc. However, many …

Quantitative easing is a term used to describe a form of economic stimulus offered by the Federal Reserve Bank to help boost market activity including business lending. This type of economic aid is an alternative …