Archive for August, 2011

Not an easy question to answer. Unless you go through every stock and check how many historic splits that stock had so far, then there is no way you can know which stock has the most reverse splits. I first thought that the stock which has the most...

Investors shouldn't care less about stocks splits, because they won't affect them at all, with the exception when they want to buy the stocks (if they don't have a flat commission then their fees will be higher as some banks charge a fee/1,000 shares for...

August 20, 2011 | In: General

How Are Stock Dividends Paid?

When I started trading stocks, I didn't care about dividends. I didn't buy stocks because they had dividends, I just bought them because I wanted to sell them at a profit. But, to my (pleasant) surprise, I woke up one day, I logged in to my investor's...

August 20, 2011 | In: Technology

Netbooks Will Fail

I was just reading the latest newsletter from my favorite technology store, and on the front page there was an HP netbook for $199. That netbook used to cost $299, but now they've slashed the price a $100. I remembered that I already own a Dell netbook,...

August 20, 2011 | In: Technology

Will Sirius Go Bankrupt?

There was some serious concerns last year about Sirius as a company. Its stock was, by all standards, a penny stock, and it was moving oddly everyday. Many investors thought back then that Sirius will go bankrupt (in fact, many investors thought that it...

August 19, 2011 | In: Technology

Will Groupon Survive?

Groupon was having an exponential growth for over a year now, traffic to the site has grown 6 folds from July 2010 to June 2011, and the website has reached a US ranking of 22 (meaning that it was the 22nd most visited website in the US, which is very...

August 19, 2011 | In: Financial

AIB: Another Reverse Split

AIB (Allied Irish Banks, plc.) has been trading for less than a dollar for more than 10 days already. Now we know that a stock will be delisted from the NYSE if it trades for less than a dollar for over a month (apparently, NYSE does not like penny...

I was just reading an article on Bloomberg on how Venezuela decided to repatriate its gold deposited in foreign banks. Apparently, Venezuela owns 365 tons of gold, and 211 tons of this gold is deposited in foreign banks. In any case, the article made...

A curious (yet useless) question that goes through every investor's mind at one point is "what is the average stock price on New York Stock Exchange?" Clearly, a quick search on the Internet reveals nothing, because although many people wanted to know...

August 17, 2011 | In: General

Can Stocks Make You Rich?

I was having a discussion with a friend the other day, and we were talking about stocks, and whether it can make someone rich or not. He was saying that stocks do not usually make you rich, but owning your own business will. I argued that even if you work...

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