How about this for a new investing strategy: Avoid the stock of companies that make big political contributions. The more they give, it seems, the worse their share prices perform.
If you want to know which direction the stock price of a company rolling out a new product is headed, there’s no need to wait for sales figures. Just check out user-generated product reviews on the web. They’re as good an early warning system as any that share prices may be headed for trouble.
As virtually everyone knows, Apple has had a sweet run of late. But many investors — and you may be one of them even if you don’t realize it — have even started to worry that they may actually own too much.
The 2012 “Forbes’ Billionaires List” generates a lot of coverage on how the most wealthy make and spend their money. Overlooked is how regular investors can cash in on these billionaires’ success.
During the 1980 Republican Presidential primary, Ronald Reagan promulgated the idea that by lowering taxes on the rich, the government could actually increase the federal government’s revenue. George H.W. Bush famously derided that idea as “Voodoo Economics.” After all, how could lowering tax rates actually increase revenue?
Facebook filed documents Wednesday with the SEC in preparation for one of the most anticipated initial public offerings in recent memory. The word on Wall Street is that the IPO will raise at least $5 billion for the firm. How does that stack up against past IPOs? According to Renaissance Capital, it would place Facebook as the 12th [...]
This is usually a slow time of the year for farm sales. It’s past prime planting season. Yet, Sam Kain, Des Moines area manager for land sales at Farmers National, is busy. He has 3 auctions this week. Most of the 30 or so bidders who show up will be farmers. But an increasing number [...]
Where were you the day the market dropped nearly 700 points in 20 minutes? Don’t remember. You’re not alone. May 6th was the one-year anniversary of the so-called Flash Crash. It came and went without much fanfare. But on the day of the event a year ago and for a few months after, it seemed [...]
Wall Street and Washington haven’t been getting along for a while. So perhaps it isn’t a surprise that the stock market seems somewhere between indifferent and gleeful at the prospect of a possible government shutdown. Stocks are up today, even as the likelihood of a government shutdown seems to have climbed from [...]
Happy Piggy (Getty Images) There is a lot of debate about whether prices are rising or not. And over whether we have too much inflation or not enough. But there is the price of one thing that surely seems to be hit with hyperinflation recently: The price of being happy. Last September, a study came [...]
