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How are mutual funds as a short-term investment?

May 18th, 2010

I’m talking about less than and up to one year. Please specify reasons why and why not. Any experience is really appreciated.

Do mutual funds make good investments in general?

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How many shares of stock should the club buy for its investment?

May 6th, 2010

Investment Club.

An investment club bought a bond of an oil corporation for 00. The bond yields 8% per year. The club now wants to buy shares of stock in a hospital supply company. The stock sells at per share and earns a dividend of {content}.50 per share per year. How many shares should the club buy so that its total investments in stocks and bonds yield 5% per year?

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Is the stock market expected to drop significantly in the next six months?

May 1st, 2010

My financial advisor advised me to move more of my investments into the bond market. He said that equities have been at all time highs, and the market is expected to correct itself sometimes between summer and this winter. However, I can’t find any articles on this expected correction. Anyone know more about this? Also, what are some good online news organization where I can read articles about the stock market?

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How can I find an informal investment club in my area, one not having to register w/ the SEC?

April 27th, 2010

I’m looking more for a networking group, not a formal investment club that pools their money. Just a group of people that are somewhat organized that gather to discuss investments.

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What would be a good investment strategy for me?

April 23rd, 2010

I’m 28 years old, I make a little over 200K a year and i have over 300K in liquid cash in separate bank accounts. I don’t know what to invest in because the market is garbage. My goal is to have a million by the time I’m 35 and I hope that with solid investments and some possible continued growth in income, I can accomplish this. Can someone give me some good investment strategies?

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Where should I go to invest in equity index or no-load mutual funds?

April 22nd, 2010

I am mad that I spent so much $ on Class A mutual funds and want to dump my brokerage firm and start investing the smart way. I have read that equity index funds and no-load mutual funds are the way to go, but I have no idea where to go or which funds to buy. I just want to put my money away in aggressive investments and let the money sit there and reinvest the dividends. I don’t want to buy and sell stocks – I would rather put it in diversified funds and just let it grow. I have 30 years to retirement so I want to be as aggressive as possible. Seems like if I ask a financial "expert," they just want to sell you their own products. Is anyone out there a financial expert who can give me objective advice??? HELP! I have a couple of IRAs and about 0K in mutual funds right now. Thank you!!!

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Can your investment representative be cheating you out of your profits?

April 18th, 2010

I invest in mutual funds with a group I will leave anonymous. I just started. I know that mutual funds are like stocks and any other investment there’s a chance you can lose money. However, is it possible the representatives can be storing away any profits that you did make into their account and making it look like you lost money from the investment? If so, I might just go to saving money from the bear market point of view. Savings bonds, Certificate of Deposits, savings account, and any other sure profit investments rather than these unpredictable and shady investments strategies. What do you think? Make money the old fashioned way and just save it?

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How does the housing market affect the stock market so much?

April 10th, 2010

I heard that the housing market being low in sales and with the forclousure market crashing, it is affecting investors so much that they are moving money out of equities (stocks) and investing more in safer investments. Thats why the stock market has been down so much in the past week.

How does this happen? I was reading about it, but I didn’t really understand. Are investors pulling out their stocks from big lenders? How exactly does it affect the stock market? I need help understanding it in normal terms that make sense.

Please advise, thank you!!

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Mutual funds?

March 30th, 2010

I have a small amount of money I would like to invest. I have heard of mutual funds but what are they? how do you get them? how much do they cost? how much money can you make from them? Is there a certain amount of time you have to wait before getting the money from them? Do they require any "upkeep"? Anything else I should know about mutual funds?

Do you have suggestions for other easy investments that would be better than a mutual fund?

Sorry for so many questions but i would really appreciate someone knowlegedable to help me out. Thanks!

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What Stocks are Good Investments?

January 28th, 2009

How to Research Individual

Stocks There are good research resources available to the individual investor, many at your local library. In addition, if you hire a full-service broker, you can indirectly avail yourself of his or her research department.

In our opinion, the two most basic, cost-effective, and objective research tools are the Value Line Investment Survey and Standard & Poor’s Stock Guides. Both may be available at your local library.

list of preferred stocks their yields The Invaluable Value Line

The basic Value Line service covers approximately 1,700 stocks. For each stock, Value Line provides two rankings: timeliness and safety. Of the two, pay particular attention to safety. Stocks are ranked on a 1-5 basis, with 1 being the safest. Don’t consider any stock with less than a 2 rating.

Value Line also provides scores for four other key indicators:

Financial strength
Stock price stability
Stock price growth persistence
Earnings predictability

In addition to the rankings and key indicators cited here, Value Line includes a great deal of relevant statistical and narrative information. Value Line reports are updated regularly. The individual company write-ups will take some getting used to, but after a while, you will find that you can easily determine a company’s earnings growth rate and the consistency of that growth rate.

Use Value Line to help you select at least 25 stocks that:

Are safe or very safe (that means a ranking of 1 or 2)
Are growing at an above-average rate
Are growing consistently and steadily

What does "above average" mean? We suggest you look for a minimum of 8 percent and, ideally, 10 percent growth. And keep an eye on consistency. For a 10 percent grower, 10 percent a year is perfect but rarely achieved. A range of 8-12 percent is consistent. From 6-14 percent is acceptable. But if the company’s earnings swing between 0 percent and 30 percent, for example, it’s too volatile to be in your portfolio unless you know exactly what you’re doing.

S&P Stock Guides

Standard & Poor’s Stock Guides (Bond Guides are also available) are an excellent research tool. The guides come out monthly and cover over 6,000 stocks, 700 mutual funds, 600 closed-end funds, and 800 preferred stock issues.

Newspapers

Finally, two newspapers, Investors Business Daily and The Wall Street Journal, do an excellent job of tracking the stock market and individual stocks. Either may be available at your local library.

If you simply must follow the market during the day, both CNBC and Bloomberg Information TV do a good job of keeping you current.

For a nightly wrap-up, check out PBS’s Nightly Business Report.

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Financial stocks surged on the notion that the government could take soured debt like defaulting mortgages off the hands of banks and place them in a so-called bad bank to hold toxic assets.

U.S. stocks stay under water after new home sales
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — US stocks remained entrenched in losses early Thursday after data showing the sale of new homes fell to the lowest monthly level on record.

Stocks open lower on fresh worries about economy
Wall Street has turned cautious as weak profit reports and record unemployment claims offer the latest evidence of the economy’s struggles.

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