Investing Archive

There’s good reasons to invest in mutual funds – but there’s also some good reasons not to! The basic idea behind mutual funds is that they offer investors a widely-diversified bundle of stocks, all selected …

Landlord insurance is an essential ingredient in your property portfolio, protecting you as the owner from bad tenants, natural disasters and the economic hardship of legal actions and sudden drops in rental income. This article …

Before investing your money it is wise to determine the goals of your investment. We are usually quite good at setting the primary goal of investment Better retirement, college fund, buying a house and more. …

Real Estate Investments through Self-Directed IRAs Most brokerages limit the type of investments you’re allowed to buy in your IRA. If you’re interested in including real estate as part of your IRA to diversify your …

How does an investor create an atmosphere where others will want to buy and what are the reasons against such momentous enthusiasm? Investors don’t so much create momentum in the stock market as they react …

Unfortunately, all investments are not created equal.  But for those people who would like to be able to retire because of investments the ability to discern the difference between good and bad investments is paramount. …

Understanding a futures contract’s tick size and tick value is essential in the trading of futures financial instruments. These financial instruments are a type of contract that lock in to prices in the present and …

First of all, you already know that you are using money on a daily basis. You use money to buy your food, your gas and everything that you need for your daily life. You use …

F5 Networks (FFIV) had its first success with the BIG-IP. This load balancing appliance was designed to reroute traffic so that if one server went down or was overloaded, input was diverted to another that …

Martin Marietta Materials (NYSE: MLM) is a company, headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, which deals in industrial materials that include aggregate, chemical, and composite materials. The company’s stock trades for $81.62 per share as of …

Forex trading is without a doubt one of the best and fastest ways to make money online, if you follow a winning strategy. You can not become successful in trading foreign currencies by making decisions …

You can earn a full-time Income through High Yield Investment Programs but you can’t predict the return from HYIPs with 100% accuracy. It is difficult to track the administrator of a HYIP so you should …

U.S. Savings Bonds, or EE bonds, have been the prefect prizes for contests and the perfect gifts for babies. However, the United States’ obscure financial laws cause confusion when the time comes to cash the …

The Facebook, Inc. initial public offering (IPO) was troublesome enough to call the whole issue of IPOs into question. The world’s most successful social networking site has now reported less than stellar first quarter earnings …

How safe are money market mutual fund investments for 2010?  “Like money in the bank?” In the wake of the recent crisis, banks don’t sound so safe anymore. Money market mutual funds also used to …

Whether an investor has one property or many, the same strategies apply in order to operate a property management company successfully. Organisation is the order of the day and separate files must be kept for …

People always say that a dollar doesn’t buy what it used to, and you know what… they are right. That is the power, often destructive, of inflation. Loosely defined, inflation is the year after year …

People invest their money to make more money. Some people invest with long-term goals, while others want to see profits quickly. Some people have hundreds of thousands of dollars to invest, but many are forced …

The best investment to protect your portfolio from inflation is precious metals. In particular, gold is the best as far as stability and reliability. The reason there is price inflation is generally because of an …

Many people realize the significance of savings and investing, yet only a few successfully plan and work out how to. Savings is one of the most important things that you must consider in securing your …

Thousands of people find their financial dreams in real estate. Some studies indicate that up to 75% of America’s millionaires got to their perch by savvy real estate investing. But how to start? Not only …

The Clorox Company (CLX) is a manufacturing company that focuses its operations on consumer and institutional products which includes bleaches and cleaning materials, water filters, and auto-care products. These products are distributed locally and internationally …

Starbucks (SBUX) is in the coffee business. Owning and operating over 18,877 coffee shops in 55 countries and at least 12,500 are in the United States. Canada has over 1,200 and there are over 700 …

The value of a house is determined based on many different factors. The location, size, design, age, neighborhood, environment as well as proximity to other amenities are all factors that affect the value of your …

The differences between investing in residential and commercial properties are night and day.  When investing in residential properties, you are investing in places where people will live.  Whether they are single-family homes, duplexes, apartments, or …

Over the last decade, the price of gold has risen dramatically from less than $300 an ounce to over $1,600. This increase has occurred during a period when other asset classes such as real estate …

For many of us in our 20s we look at retirement as far away. We picture being old, gray and bored with driving an RV around the US to bird watch as the only option …

A commodity is anything that can be bought and sold. We people usually buy the commodities that keep us healthy and alive first before we purchase those other items that we can very well do …

Bonds are promissory notes that can be issued by either the government or private business as a way to raise capital. These notes are issued in the hopes of raising money from external sources without …

With the permanent ban on naked short selling of stocks, the SEC has replaced its earlier limited-period restriction on short selling of financial stocks imposed in the aftermath of the credit crisis last year. Several …