Investing Archive

Don’t Count out Real Estate just yet

Home Staging Assists Laboring Housing MarketAuthor: Teri WoodsHome Stages Designs The San Francisco Chronicle stated in an article published in January 2008 that Bay Area median home prices and sales volumes experienced significant declines in …

National Savings Premium Bonds

If you are resident in the UK, there is a tax-free saving scheme that you can join where your investment has the potential to grow into millions of pounds. Does this sound too good to …

Guide to Municipal Bonds the Basics

GUIDE TO MUNICIPAL BONDS – THE BASICS Investing in municipal bonds is a popular way to minimize risk, and generate a tax-free return on the money invested. WHAT ARE MUNICIPAL BONDS? Municipal bonds, or munis, …

What is a Blue Chip Stock

Blue chip stock is a nick name given to stocks that are deemed safe. The name “blue chip” originated from the game poker where the highest chip denomination is blue in color. Sometimes, they are …

The Pros and Cons of UK Isa Accounts

ISA stands for Individual Saving Account. These UK saving accounts are an alternative to the standard saving accounts. Overall, the ISA accounts have a number of advantages compared to them, although there are also some …

How Foreclosures Affect Home Values

Chances are that you or someone you know has been affected by foreclosure; even in something as miniscule as depreciating property values. Foreclosures do not just affect the family losing a home; they affect neighborhoods …

Reasons not to Invest in Mutual Funds

There are literally thousands of mutual funds today, and they have become the most popular tool of choice for non-professional investors hoping to save their money for retirement. At the same time, for some people …

Why Invest in Real Estate

Since I’m interested in helping everyone out as much as possible, I have found that one of the best means of producing a huge chunk of change when you retire without a whole lot of …

How Savings Bonds Work

Savings Bonds are an investment vehicle issued by banks and credit unions.  In the simplest terms, a savings bond is a loan from you to the US government.  In exchange for the loan, the US …

Some Rules for Speculating

Let’s face it – we’re ALL speculators in some way or another. If we analyze what speculation means, in a general sense, we can then see how it relates to all aspects of financial survival. …

Put your Money where your Coffee is

Coffee may come second only to water as the most-consumed beverage in the United States, but Starbucks now has its eyes on the drinking habits of the 1.3 billion people who call China home. The …

The Abcs of us Treasury Bonds

Treasury bonds are financial securities issued by governments when they need to borrow money, either directly from the public and corporations, or by selling these instruments through banks and other financial markets options, such as …

Investing for Retirement

High Yield Investments – For RealI’m not talking about the 3% yield on a Dow 30 Blue Chip. This is 10% we’re talking about. What I’m referring to is stocks, ETFs and closed-end mutual funds …

What is Domaining

Domaining, also known as Domain Investing, is the process of generating revenue from Domain Names. The domain industry began with early investors seeing strong potential in domains long before the general public had become comfortable …

How to Start Investing in Rental Properties

Investing in rental properties can be a great opportunity of financial benefits in the long-term. Historically, investing in real estate has produced above average returns on investment(ROI). From 1978 to 2004, real estate has generated …

How to Invest during down Economies

Have you looked at your investments lately? Are they suffering losses? Are you having second thoughts on your initial investment plan(s)? Well, you’re not the only one.  Today’s global economic structure is one of caution, …

Share Price Effects

The stock market likes to speak its own language and the January Effect is another descriptive term market analyst use to explain January price fluctuations. They don’t always happen but they happen enough to have …

Holiday Seasonal Investments

Seasonal investing is a strategy of buying and selling stocks and other investments at different times of the year.  Based on natural factors like climate and agricultural planting and harvesting, or on cultural factors like …

How to Trade the Forex Market

Due to its high liquidity and frequent price fluctuations, the foreign exchange market, or Forex for short, is popular with online traders. Trading platforms allow traders to buy or sell (otherwise known as going ‘long’ …

Start Investing in your 20s

During those precious years of the twenty-somethings, many embark on life’s most wonderful experiences, ranging from college graduation to starting a family. It is also during the 20’s that a person should begin saving and …

The Disruptions in the Markets – No

The best health indicator of a business comes from the value it places on its employees.  When the stock market is based on the functioning of a business and its stable investments one might think …