Where Will Alibaba Be in a Year?
Prior to the Alibaba IPO the five biggest IPOs of American companies listed on United States stock exchanges were as follows: FREE MASTERCLASS: 3 Secrets to Make Your Money Work for You! VISA, March 2008, $17.9 billion Facebook, May 2012, $16 billion GM, November 2010, $15.8 billion Kraft Foods, June 2001, $8.7 billion UPS, November […]
Germans Buy US Companies
Over the weekend two German companies announced US takeovers worth $25 Billion according to Money CNN. FREE MASTERCLASS: 3 Secrets to Take Control of Your Financial Future! Two German firms snapped up U.S. competitors for $25 billion before the opening bell Monday, looking beyond record stock prices and a stronger dollar to acquire advanced technology […]
Invest in Alibaba or Not
Should you invest in Alibaba or not? If you have not been paying attention the Chinese e-commerce company, Alibaba, is going public on Friday, September 12. The initial public offering (IPO) will be on the New York Stock Exchange as the Hong Kong Stock Exchange refused to list the stock. Why is that and what […]
Panama Canal Expansion Update September 2014
The Panama Canal Expansion is back on track with completion of all phases expected in 2016. When this major construction project is finished it will more than double the cargo capacity of the century old canal. When finished the expanded Panama Canal will change shipping patterns and affect ports up and down the East Coast […]
Basics of Successful Investing IV
Basics of Successful Investing IV is the last in our series. We wrote about getting your financial house in order and making some basic decisions about why you are investing and how much money you are willing to put at risk in Basics of Successful Investing I. Our advice in Basics of Successful Investing II was that you should start out by investing in what you know. And, when you pick something else you need to do your homework and thoroughly understand what a company does to make money and how it will manage to keep doing so. And we […]
Will Nude Photo Uproar Hurt Apple Stock?
According to Movie News Guide and other sources, the FBI and Apple are investigating the Jennifer Lawrence nude photo leak. FREE MASTERCLASS: 3 Secrets to Make Your Money Work for You! Following the leakage of nude photos of high profile female celebrities such as Kate Upton, Jennifer Lawrence, Ariana Grande among others, [the] FBI along […]
Basics of Successful Investing III
Successful investing comes from learning the basics and refining your skills with experience. In this series of articles we look at the basics of successful investing. In the first article in this series, Basics of Successful Investing I, we noted that the first thing to do is put your financial house in order and then […]
Signs of a Market Correction
The stock market rally has been going on for five and a half years. The S&P 500 bottomed out at 683 on March 6 of 2009. This was the end of the market fall and the start of the second worst recession in 75 years. And, like in the days after the 2009 Stock Market […]
Invest in Tiffany
Tiffany & Co. has raised its earnings forecast and the stock rose three percent. Is this enough reason to invest in Tiffany? According to the online Financial Times Tiffany lifts it guidance for the second time in a few months. FREE MASTERCLASS: 3 Secrets to Make Your Money Work for You! Tiffany & Co has […]
Basics of Successful Investing II
Successful investors apply what they already know in picking stocks, choosing exchange traded funds and investing their money. Retailers have insight into retail stocks and computer programmers have insight into software companies. Doctors and others in the medical field have insight into medications and the tools used in treating diseases. And, if a successful investor […]