Today’s Value Investing
Image via Wikipedia Today’s value investing is the same as the value investing taught by Benjamin Graham and practiced by the likes of Warren Buffett. The stock investing news is full of news and advice about today’s value investing. Fund managers are touting companies with strong balance sheets, lots of cash, and low price to […]
Pension Obligation Bonds
Image via Wikipedia Pension obligation bonds were a great idea for about a minute and a half in 1985 when the city of Oakland, California used them. Oakland issued tax exempt bonds at a prevailing rate for tax exempt bonds and then turned around and invested the money in vehicles such as Treasury Bills offering […]
Investing in Oil
As oil in developed countries such as the United States and Canada became harder to find and less profitable, oil companies moved offshore, to Alaska and to the Third World. Investing in oil has been subject to the risk of nationalization across the globe. In general it has become harder to make money in oil. […]
Investing in Gold
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There are a number of attractive options for investing in gold and there are pitfalls. Gold stock investing includes mining companies and derivatives. Many gold bugs will say that how to invest in the stock market during hard economic times is to invest in gold. However, the true gold bug will advise that you buy and hoard gold bullion or rare gold coins. A current scare tactic in the gold coin market is that “the government will come again for your gold.” Roosevelt signing his executive order to prevent gold hoarding is rewritten as the confiscation of gold. […]
Investing in Beer
Whether you drink beer or not, investing in beer can be quite profitable. In looking at the different types of stock that do well during recessions and profit during recoveries large brewers typically are on the list. Whether your beer of choice is made by Anheuser-Busch or Inbev, Molson Coors or Carlsberg these companies have […]
Debt and Growth
As a number of states are struggling with deficits bond buyers are happily looking at after tax yields of close to 7% from states like California at the same time that 10 year US Treasury notes are going for less than 4%. It is usually the other way around. However, looking at debt and growth […]
Picking New Winners
Rising from the ashes of the stock market crash are a number of banks and other companies that have caught the eye of investors. Many of the new companies, banks especially, are very new, with little to go on for fundamental analysis except that some of the stars of the old banking industry have split […]
When Should You Invest in the Stock Market?
Most of us tend to get mesmerized by the talks going around us about the profits that people are making through stock market investments. Although one may not be aware of what the stock market is all about, but just by listening to some media updates or someone’s massive success in it, we end up […]
Fundamental Analysis
When investors in the stock market choose stocks to buy or sell, they commonly apply some degree of fundamental analysis in making their decision. And, what is fundamental analysis? It is a way to determine the real and lasting value of a company and its stock. On one hand, investors look at factors such as the health of the economy, the jobs reports, interest rates, and whatever will tend to increase the value of stocks in general and their portfolio in particular. In regard to their own specific stock picks, fundamental or value investors calculate intrinsic stock value based on […]
Knowing What Penny Stocks to Watch
Knowing what penny stocks to watch is a good way to freely and comfortably do business in the stock market. Trading in the stock market by means of purchasing penny stocks is a risky way to invest because of the danger that the corporation offering them might be fraudulent, or that the shares being offered […]