Stock Investing
Trade Increase between India and Iran
Efforts by India to establish a trade increase between India and Iran should hold interest to investors for several reasons. India has decreased its imports of oil from Iran. This is in compliance with demands by the United States for sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program. Nevertheless India is still Iran’s second leading purchaser […]
Cell Site Lease Stocks
There are a number of profitable approaches to cell site tower lease investing. One is the purchase of cell site lease stocks. A recent article in the news pointed out the effect of low interest rates on retirement savings. It used to be that a million dollars was a great nest egg. But when savings […]
Cell Site Tower Lease Investing
There are a number of profitable approaches to cell site tower lease investing. Cell sites are the relay nodes in the mobile phone network. They are placed in high locations such as on towers or the tops of buildings to provide line of sight connection with adjacent towers. There are hundreds of thousands of these […]
Sound Stock Investing Principles
It was just after the stock market crash that ushered in the Great Depression that many investors learned the concept of fundamental analysis. Stock investing is not gambling. Smart investors seek to understand the factors that will drive a stock price up or down. They look at the price to earnings ratio of a stock […]
Cell Phone Tower Site Leases
Interesting and potentially quite profitable investments are cell phone site leases. These investments pay regularly and commonly have an escalator clause that increases lease payments every year. Cell phone tower site leases tend to be very stable and secure investments because cell phone networks depend upon these sites. Cell phone companies put up cell towers […]
Investing in Risky Stocks
Investing in volatile stocks can be profitable if your fundamental analysis indicates that a stock is underpriced. And investing in risky stocks of the volatile kind can be very dangerous if you neglect to do your homework. As all too many investors learned to their dismay in the 2008 market crash, big stocks are not […]
Diversify Your Investment Portfolio
Diversification is a means of reducing risk and increasing opportunity in investing. The chances of having a stock in your portfolio rise significantly in price goes up when you have five well-chosen stocks instead of one. The chances of losing all of your investment capital also go down when you diversify your investment portfolio among […]
Russian Chinese Energy Agreement
The new Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, signed a Russian Chinese energy agreement set to provide the still-growing Chinese economy with oil and natural gas for years to come. China has worked hard to secure sources of energy for its economy for years. The thriving Chinese economy and large cash reserves have been indispensable in the […]
Investment and the Time Value of Money
Time value is usually an expression used in options trading. When an options contract has a while to run before expiration it is said to have time value. Anything can happen so the price of the options contract may well rise or fall. Here we are concerned about investment and the time value of money. […]
Time to Sell Gold
With gold having its worst beginning of the year in more than two decades, is it time to sell gold? Many big gold investors seem to think so. More than $5 Billion was sold from gold exchange traded funds in a month. Part of this may be that investors are moving their money from gold […]