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August 24, 2011 | In: General

Is the Swiss Franc Overvalued?

In these crazy, crazy days, where many investors are thinking that the world is finally coming to an end, and where a lot of forex traders are thinking that the USD (and soon the EURO) is worth a bit more than the paper it's being printed on, we are...

I just received an email stating that my LinkedIn Account has been blocked, apparently due to suspicious activity such as too many failed login attempts. Thankfully, because I investigate all the links before clicking on them, I noticed that the link does...

In the past few months, I have read many articles on Google's new innovation, Google plus. Apparently, with Google plus, you can connect with friends, share photos, stories, and other nonsense about yourself, that nobody cares about, except you, your wife...

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...