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How Do You Choose Which Assets Classes to Invest In?
You have enough money to start investing. But, before you consider how to start investing in the stock market, you want to get your financial house in order. Our article on that subject suggests that the first thing to do is pay off your credit cards and the second is to buy your own home. Once you have a rainy day fund in the bank for emergencies you want to consider investments. The stock market is a good choice but it not the only one. What other asset classes are there? Stocks, bonds, short term investments (cash), and real estate […]
How High Can Stocks Go?
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ are all at or near all-time highs? The question for those on the sidelines and wishing to invest it just how high can stocks go? FREE: BENZINGA Pro – Register for a FREE, Two-Week Trial Markets as of April 10, 2013 Dow Jones 14,753.17 +79.71 (0.54%) […]
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 […]
Raiding Personal Savings Accounts to Pay off Government Debt
According the news, EU officials are telling Cyprus that in order to get more bailout money Cyprus needs to start raiding personal savings accounts to pay off government debt. Some of this has to do with allegations of money laundering for the Russian mafia but it will surely hit hard at families who have put […]
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 […]
Profitable Investment Alternatives
Perhaps you have had your money in a mutual fund and are dismayed at poor returns and occasional losses. Maybe your money was in a hedge fund that went down in flames in the 2008 market crash. And, it might be that you invested in South Florida real estate just before the bubble burst. If […]
Invest in Post War Syria
The tide has turned in the grueling Syrian Civil War. Opposition forces have taken another town in the North. United States has stated its willingness to provide non-lethal support for the rebels. The Syrian Opposition is already receiving arms from the likes of Saudi Arabia. Many believe that it is only a matter of time […]
Find Practical Investments
There is often too much hype that attends investing advice. With people selling investment products, trading products, and various services, it is too easy to miss the investing forest for all of the investment product and service trees. Many folks would just like to find practical investments. Mind you, we are not talking about the […]
Declining Investment in China
According to a recent press release by Dow Jones there has been declining investment in China at the end of last year. The report notes a more than forty percent fall in venture capital infusion. Direct investment in China has been popular if not always profitable for years. A major issue that we have written […]