Archive for June, 2011

Unless you've been living under a rock for the last couple of months, you know that RIM, as a company, is facing some serious issues. RIM is becoming more and more irrelevant in today's world, and is losing market share by the second. RIM may even go...

June 17, 2011 | In: General

Is Shorting Stocks Illegal?

When I first learned about the practice of shorting stocks, I was surprised that it was allowed. Investors can literally reduce the stock price to a fraction of what it was when they heavily short it, this is because when you short a stock, you're...

June 16, 2011 | In: Technology, Trivia

Is Google Down?

I thought I'd never live to see this problem happen, but apparently Google is down. I'm not able to access it from any of my PCs, nor from any browser. Now it's up, but it was down for nearly 3 minutes, and that's saying something for the most...

June 15, 2011 | In: Lists

Top 100 Stocks Below 5

Most individual investors seek low priced stocks because of the following: - They can afford to buy a lot of shares of these stocks. - Their profit (and so will their loss) margin will be much higher than with high-priced stocks because of the...

I have touched on the subject of Facebook Advertising vs Google Advertising in several of my articles, but I've never really dedicated a full article for this topic. But now that we're sure that the Facebook IPO is imminent (it's only a matter of time) I...

I was just checking C, and I noticed that Citigroup and Bank of America are very close to each other when it comes to market capitalization. Citigroup has a market capitalization of $114.90 billion while Bank of America has a market capitalization of...

June 13, 2011 | In: Opinion

Contrarian Investing

I became aware of contrarian investing before I started having my own business. It was my employer who explained the concept to me, and he told me how a great believer of this concept he is, and why. Although I was very new to the term, I have discovered...

After my recent post on the top 100 stocks with low P/E, I started wondering, if these stocks have such a low P/E, it means that they do not attract investors. But why is that? I looked at two very known examples of stocks with low P/E: AIG and RIMM....

June 10, 2011 | In: Technology

Annoying Google Doodles

I understand that Google is always trying to impress us with something new on their webpage, something original, like an image or something. But I have recently noticed that the frequency of the doodles (when Google replaces its own logo with another...

Long term investors seeks stocks with the high dividend yield, as they prefer to make money on a recurring basis rather than selling and buying stock to make money (which can be very risky). Some stocks can provide investors with dividend yields up to...

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