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Remember the old wall street adage goes:

Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.
Avoid association with the latter group in this statement. To put this adage in perspective, always know when to sell your stocks.
Housing Market Decline Effect
There is a huge divide on the market outlook for 2007. Naturally, the bulls [...]

I applauded earlier this week as America’s second largest bank announced free equity trades for existing customers who hold $25,000 or more in their Bank of America deposit accounts.
Bank of America takes a giant step in the right direction to long term success because of three key reasons:

Free trades is an attempt by Bank of [...]

Corning Incorporated is a global tech company that makes big dollars off its LCD screen unit. That means big dollars for Corning in the next five years. Why do you ask? Well for a number of reasons, number one being the mandatory FCC requirement for all televisions to be digitally equipped by 2009. To [...]

While TD Ameritade and Fidelity Investments charge upwards from $7 a trade, discount brokerage firms allow investors to trade with as little as a $50 initial investment. Discount brokers offer a number of advantages:

lower commission fees than normal brokerage accounts
lower or sometimes zero minimums
fractional share purchase options
automatic investing to take advantage of dollar-cost averaging

ShareBuilder
Online investors [...]

Use this online investment growth calculator by Fidelity Investments to find out how much an initial investment can grow into after a certain amount of years.
The investment calculator takes your investment value in x number of years at a specific earnings rate and breaks it down into three categories:

initial investment
simple earnings
compound earnings

This is a [...]

Moving on from Latin America, we travel to china in order to investigate its recent burgeon in Chinese banking. China is the world’s largest creditor that holds more cash than any other nation. As long as Chinese banks are careful about who they provide loans to, China will experience great economic wealth in the [...]

Return on Invested Capital or ROIC calculation points out the profitability of a company’s equity and debt. Equity plus debt equals total capital, the amount of available resources a company utilizes. ROIC is a better indicator of stock quality and strength than Return on Equity because it takes a company’s debt into account.

Example of How [...]

What do Africa and the Middle East have in unparalleled quantities? Potential. Potential wealth that investors can earn a share of by buying stock in foreign companies, particularly equities based in Africa and the Middle East.

The overseas potential for foreign investments in Africa and the Middle East looks bright. The natural resources are vast [...]

Today internet giant Google purchased Youtube for $1.65 billion as it increases its market share in the internet video industry to nearly 56%. The aggressive move should pay big dividends in the future because Google, unlike Youtube, understands how the internet works. Google will upgrade Youtube’s platform, make downloading videos easier , and [...]