Fadi El-Eter

More and more investors are suddenly finding the company they have shares in going private. What does that mean for the stock and the investors? Before answering the question, let's briefly discuss why companies go private. Companies go private for...

Most people that don't trade stocks, especially those with not-so-great-education or in developing countries, believe that stock trading a sin. They think it's a form of gambling, because one has a chance of winning and has a chance of losing. However,...

I have written this article on one of my other financial websites. Since I have now decided to deprecate the other website, I thought the article can be of good use here. Wash trading is an illegal practice where an investor buys and sells the same...

I was just reading an article about HP producing more of its TouchPad tablets running its soon-to-be-obsolete WebOS. HP apparently is selling these tablets at $99 each, losing about $229 for each tablet (the cost for producing each TouchPad is around...

I remember that 6 years ago, I was able to buy a house in my country of origin, a very nice house in a very nice area, for a mere $50,000. Fast forward to today, that same house now costs $600,000 (I'm not kidding). The price of the house was up 12 times...

There are many stocks that don't experience any volume activity on a trading day. A recent example of a stock with no trading activity is EAGL. That stock didn't experience any activity neither on Friday nor on Monday. Take a look at the Google chart...

Now that AIB is shown as having a zero dollar value on Google Finance, I thought that an appropriate question for many investors would be, "what will happen when a stock hits a zero"? Let me answer this question... When a company issues shares to be...

After my post on AIB delisting itself from the NYSE yesterday, I was wondering what will happen to the investor's shares when a stock gets delisted from either the NYSE or the NASDAQ, so I just did research on this topic and I will now share my results...

I though there was going to be another reverse split, but I was wrong. AIB (Allied Irish Banks) elected to delist itself from the NYSE after reaching an all time low of $0.68/share (or $0.136 before taking the reverse split of 1:5 back in February into...

1 million dollars is the magic number for everything. I used to dream about this amount when I was a kid. I used to think that 1 million dollars will buy me anything I want. That was then, and this is now. A million dollars nowadays can barely buy you the...