The current economic crisis has had a significant impact on share prices with the whole market being dragged down in recent months. However a lot of this sell-off could be seen as panic-selling by private investors and fund managers, and has resulted in some companies falling to bargain levels, and in fact there are entire […]
Warren Buffet and other professional investors have recently urged individuals to invest in stocks. Mr. Buffet has a history of investing in strong brand names with strong balance sheets. He has been able to secure high dividend yields by providing capital to distressed blue chip companies. However, unlike Warren Buffet you probably don’t have the […]
“Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.” Peter Lynch
CONGRATULATIONS! By reading this article you are taking the first step toward becoming a successful investor. Despite what you think, investing is fun and easy. Society leads us to believe that buying and […]
The BSE Sensex or Bombay Stock Exchange Sensitive Index is a value-weighted index composed of 30 stocks with the base April 1984=100, It consists of the 30 largest and most actively traded stocks,representative of various sectors, on the Bombay Stock Exchange.These companies account for around one-fifth of the market capitalization of the BSE. The base […]
The FTSE 100; it’s something we’ve all heard mentioned with increasing frequency as news and media focus on the economy, but do people really know what it is? An abbreviation of Financial Times Stock Exchange, the FTSE (or footsie as it’s pronounced) 100 is a share index of the 100 most highly capitalised companies listed […]
A mortgage broker acts as an intermediary who sells mortgage loans on behalf of individuals or businesses. Traditionally, banks and other lending institutions have sold their own products.However as markets for mortgages have become more competitive, the role of the mortgage broker has become more popular.Today in most developed mortgage markets (especially the U.S., UK, […]
When you start investing in the stock market, there are many bits of advice you will hear. One of them has always been that investing in stocks long term is one of the most profitable investment strategies. Buy stocks of good solid companies, you were told, and hold them for years. Don’t trade stocks and […]
Individuals or firms trading equity (stock) on the stock markets as their principal capacity are called stock traders. Stock traders usually try to profit from short-term price volatility with trades lasting anywhere from several seconds to several weeks. The stock trader is usually a professional.
A person can call himself a full or part-time stock […]
Market share, in strategic management and marketing, is the percentage or proportion of the total available market or market segment that is being serviced by a company. It can be expressed as a company’s sales revenue (from that market) divided by the total sales revenue available in that market.
It can also be expressed as […]
In business and finance, a share (also referred to as equity share) of stock means a share of ownership in a corporation (company). In the plural, stocks is often used as a synonym for shares especially in the United States, but it is less commonly used that way outside of North America. In the United […]
