http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com By PALLAVI GOGOI AP Business Writer NEW YORK — Two signs of trouble elsewhere in the world pushed U.S. stocks lower: slowing economic growth in China and a possible hitch in a deal to get Greece its bailout money. The Dow Jones industrial average closed... http://www.articlealley.com/http://shawcapitalfinancial.articlealley.com/shaw-capital-management-financial-newsstocks-market-edges-lower-on-worries-about-china-greece-2420607.html 20th March 2012 Investor protection with municipal bonds is so spotty that there is potential for much mischief. Disclosure, that bedrock of fair securities markets, is the heart of the problem facing municipal investors. Municipal issuers often don’t file the most b... http://www.articlealley.com/http://lancewallach2.articlealley.com/will-your-municipal-bond-or-your-life-insurance-company-2417305.html 06th March 2012 Learning how to invest in stocks needn't be complex or perhaps intimidating. Knowing many of the fundamentals like what strategies to employ, the various kinds of stocks and how the markets operate, can make it quite simple to start investing in stocks. ... http://www.articlealley.com/http://umbungo.articlealley.com/stock-investing--what-you-must-know-to-start-investing-2395839.html 05th December 2011 Remarks from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke lowered expectations regarding the third round of bond-buying sent stocks down Thursday. For the second day accounts, Bernanke informed congress the Fed is expecting the economy to boost. He stated that ... http://www.articlealley.com/http://dynamicwealth.articlealley.com/dynamic-wealth-management-zurichs-stocks-crash-following-bernanke-dims-chance-of-stimulation-2386147.html 09th November 2011 Investors may move money into cash and other assets perceived as safer. Meanwhile, earnings season will continue after a solid first week. Investors, frustrated by the lack of progress in the debate over raising the debt ceiling, could move into what a... http://www.articlealley.com/http://www.articlealley.com/shaw-capital-management-world-financial-news-stock-rebound-unlikely-this-week-as-debtceiling-2368457.html 06th October 2011 The price of gold topped $1,590 (U.S.) on Friday. Is that too high, or too low? Given the underlying fundamentals I think it is still way too low. Here are some interesting facts about the current "valuation" of gold and gold mining stocks. * In inflat... http://www.articlealley.com/http://danielkertcher2.articlealley.com/gold-price-where-is-it-going-2356095.html 23rd September 2011 My commentary today is dedicated solely to the stock market. Many of my readers are obviously invested in stocks and are concerned over last week’s volatility. Let’s start with the general consensus… Whatever I read this weekend, the message was bas... http://www.articlealley.com/http://profitconfidential.articlealley.com/special-stock-market-report-2340730.html 24th August 2011 Everyone knows that the stock market likes to bet on the future. It’s possible we’ll get a very good second-quarter earnings season without much change in the main stock market indices. This is a market that’s just plain unsure of itself. Sentiment wou... http://www.articlealley.com/http://profitconfidential.articlealley.com/the-dow-sp-500--nasdaq-why-its-time-to-ignore-them-2318824.html 22nd July 2011 Okay, it’s March of 2011 and I see stock advisors in general are getting very bullish on the stock market. I start to predict a decline for stock prices. I even make an audio/video presentation stating that I predict stocks will start to collapse on May 2... http://www.articlealley.com/http://profitconfidential.articlealley.com/stock-market-my-secret-weapon-in-predicting-its-direction-2314405.html 15th July 2011 In January of this year, the Federal Reserve predicted that the U.S. economy would grow between 3.4% and 3.9% in 2011. In April, the Fed said it predicted that the economy would grow less, at between 3.1% and 3.3% this year. Yesterday, the Fed lowered its... http://www.articlealley.com/http://profitconfidential.articlealley.com/economy-unemployment-inflation-and-stimulus-the-surprises-2308902.html 07th July 2011 Below I list five facts about the stock market, all very bullish cases for stock prices to rise in the immediate term. According to Bloomberg’s survey of 9,000 stock analysts, the S&P 500 companies will earn 18% more in 2011 than they did in 2010. Despit... http://www.articlealley.com/http://profitconfidential.articlealley.com/five-reasons-why-stock-prices-will-rise-in-the-immediate-term-2307622.html 05th July 2011 As an inexperienced or ordinary investor your aim in picking equity money ought to be to take part in the stock marketplace, not to consider extreme chance in an attempt to beat the market place. Your prepare literature will possible describe or classify ... http://www.articlealley.com/http://joaquinwashington.articlealley.com/your-401k-most-effective-investment-alternatives-and-the-worst-2306498.html 04th July 2011 As funny as it sounds, in the business of forecasting the direction of stock prices, it has been proven that the market moves in the opposite direction of what stock advisors expect of it. A classic example of this: in October 2007, when stocks were at... http://www.articlealley.com/http://profitconfidential.articlealley.com/stock-market-bounce-imminent-as-bullish-sentiment-collapses-2305384.html 30th June 2011 A plan to help stressed homeowners. If you have a mortgage set to readjust soon, help may be on the way. Last Thursday, President Bush announced a new plan to help subprime borrowers, just hours after the Mortgage Bankers Association reported the largest ... http://www.articlealley.com/http://jerry2.articlealley.com/the-subprime-mortgage-rescue-plan-2296391.html 23rd June 2011 Economists widely agree: America seems to be in a recession. Important economic indicators show declining manufacturing, a constricting retail and service sector, and poor GDP. So is the sky falling? Is this the end of the world? No. Recessions have occur... http://www.articlealley.com/http://jerry2.articlealley.com/a-review-of-recessions-2296389.html 23rd June 2011 We all know what a photograph album is. Numerous occasions we stop by places, organize events and we get pictures. Men and women, in the past, have confronted the challenge of obtaining also several images. The way of organizing these images is by putting... http://www.articlealley.com/http://cliffordcline2.articlealley.com/show-your-photos-to-your-friends-using-the-fresh-verizon-online-album-feature-2290992.html 21st June 2011 2009 has showed us how fast stocks can recover. Have you looked at the market lately? Hopefully, you haven’t gotten out of it. This has been a very encouraging spring for the stock market investor. Some statistics: • Between the March 9 lows and the end ... http://www.articlealley.com/http://jerry2.articlealley.com/stock-market-comeback-2264295.html 03rd June 2011 June 1, 2009 was a sad day for General Motors: the venerable automaker, now financially vulnerable, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy (and was kicked out of the Dow Jones Industrial Average). This shocked no one, and the stock market didn’t suffer. The ... http://www.articlealley.com/http://jerry2.articlealley.com/gm-files-for-bankruptcy-2264294.html 03rd June 2011 Inflation in Venezuela is running at 27.4% a year. The country devalued its currency earlier this year to deal with the rapid inflation rate. Yesterday, the European Union statistics office in Luxembourg said that European producer-price inflation jumped... http://www.articlealley.com/http://lombardipublishing.articlealley.com/the-quiet-hyperinflation-of-2011-2228138.html 13th May 2011 A stock market or equity market is a public (a loose network of economic transactions, not a physical facility or discrete) entity for the trading of company stock (shares) and derivatives at an agreed price; these are securities listed on a stock exchang... http://www.articlealley.com/http://nileshshukla.articlealley.com/what-is-the-stock-market-2153823.html 30th March 2011 If there’s one thing that captures the mood of a nation, it’s the stock market index. When the Dow Jones Industrial Average (“Dow Jones") or Standard & Poor’s 500 (“S&P 500") falls, the collective mood of the nation goes down; when it rises, national mood... http://www.articlealley.com/http://jimknight.articlealley.com/how-stock-indexes-work-2146196.html 28th March 2011 Stocks and shares closed reduced in October at last in several months, as investors asked whether the large move off the March levels had surpassed the economy’s capability to produce development in output and income. Thomas Anderson Advisory are marke... http://www.articlealley.com/http://thomasander.articlealley.com/thomas-anderson-advisory-market-overall-performance-2131061.html 21st March 2011 My take on what happens in the financial markets and what you hear from reporters and see in the media are two very different things. I guess you know that or otherwise you would not be reading my column. The facts are the facts. Since the crisis in Ja... http://www.articlealley.com/http://lombardipublishing.articlealley.com/stocks-the-stock-market-whats-really-happening-with-it-2125436.html 17th March 2011 Should your retirement investments include equity index funds? Such a fund typically invests in stocks, and tracks the performance of a specific stock index, such as the S & P 500. As index funds are mainly run by computers, the fees (and taxes, if rel... http://www.articlealley.com/http://wealthyandhealthy.articlealley.com/equity-index-funds-good-retirement-investment-2122578.html 16th March 2011 Advance decline technical analysis is one of the most popular types of the analysis applied to the indexes and exchanges. This type of the analysis is unique in its nature as it cannot be applied to stocks, futures, currencies and many other tradable secu... http://www.articlealley.com/http://viktorka.articlealley.com/advance-decline-analysis-2102408.html 09th March 2011 A stock market index is a statistical measure of adjustments within the securities markets. An index represents a portfolio of securities traded on the market that is thought of to be reasonably representative of the market as a whole. Each index has its ... http://www.articlealley.com/http://antwanrhodes2.articlealley.com/learning-about-stock-market-indexes-2065126.html 23rd February 2011 (Source: The Wall Street Journal) In tumultuous economic times such as these, your broker or financial adviser usually offers calming words of wisdom and advice. Stay in the market long enough and you will hear these many times. How true are these word... http://www.articlealley.com/http://chuckoliver.articlealley.com/ten-stock-market-myths-2044698.html 17th February 2011 INDEX OPTIONS INTRODUCTION Options’ very existence is due to traders who wanted to minimize their risk, i.e. people who wanted to be long or short a specific asset, but only at a specific price, and who wanted not to be financially responsible if the ... http://www.articlealley.com/http://carterlocken.articlealley.com/index-options-introduction-2044650.html 17th February 2011 If you are a stock market investor or a gold investor, or both, today’s PROFIT CONFIDENTIAL is a must-read. Why? Because, by the time you are finished reading this issue, you could very well be convinced long-term that the stock market is go... http://www.articlealley.com/http://profitconfidential.articlealley.com/dow-jones-gold-ratio-making-money-from-this-allimportant-indicator-2041233.html 17th February 2011 The news makes such a big deal about the Dow Jones Index these days that even those who do not know anything about stocks or investing have become interested in learning all about the Dow. After all, if it matters so much, then it must be important. So, w... http://www.articlealley.com/http://claytonrisha.articlealley.com/the-djia--what-you-need-to-know-2036117.html 15th February 2011 It is discussion on the subject of stocks that is riding herd no matter whether it is on weekend get-togethers, parties, small celebrations, or just while freaking out. Online stock trading and the advantages associated has become buzz-phrase. When we spe... http://www.articlealley.com/http://nirmalsoni.articlealley.com/online-stock-trading--a-buzzphrase-and-derivatives-trading-2005324.html 03rd February 2011 In each PROFIT CONFIDENTIAL editorial, we quote an older edition of this e-letter, usually an exact prediction I made and the forthcoming outcome. You’ll find this daily in a section below entitled, “What He Said." Today’s “What He Said" paragraph is a... http://www.articlealley.com/http://lombardipublishing.articlealley.com/worst-investment-you-can-make-in-2011-1975472.html 20th January 2011 By Michael Lombardi, MBA All the news this morning is about JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE/JPM) reporting that it made $4.8 billion in profit in its fourth quarter of 2010, beating analyst expectations again. Look at the chart of JPMorgan and you’ll see... http://www.articlealley.com/http://lombardipublishing.articlealley.com/bank-stocks-time-to-jump-in-1975205.html 20th January 2011 That’s what I like! An obedient stock market! 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One of the largest financial services firms in the US, it has more than 5,100 bank branches in a couple dozen states (and count... http://www.articlealley.com/http://tony45.articlealley.com/jpmorgan-chaseto-buy-or-not-to-buy-1969999.html 19th January 2011 KIAWAH ISLAND, SC, December 13, 2010 Kiawah Golf Investment Seminars (an investment education enterprise located near the Kiawah Island Golf-Tennis-Beach resort) proudly reports estimated investment performance results for a sampling of Market Cycle Inves... http://www.articlealley.com/http://steveselengut.articlealley.com/mcim-portfolios-rally-to-threeyear-high-levels-1935034.html 06th January 2011 Many wonder if predicting winning stocks is certain. When a stock is seen to to go up in value strongly one year, the thinking issue is usually to assume that it will continue to do so the next time, isn't it? 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A recession is confirmed by negative gross domestic pro... http://www.articlealley.com/http://ishangoradiya2.articlealley.com/recessions-depressions-deflation-inflation-1883180.html 03rd December 2010 Is an election year good for stocks? Well, let’s look at some data. Keep in mind, it’s only data – and as the old saying goes, past performance is no indication of future results. But the statistics concerning the Dow Jones Industrial Average sure are int... http://www.articlealley.com/http://ishangoradiya2.articlealley.com/presidential-elections-and-stocks-1882902.html 03rd December 2010 A super Tuesday renews a lot of hope. October risked being the worst month for stocks in decades until the amazing rally on October 28. Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had its second biggest point gain ever, rising a mindblowing 889.35 (10.88% i... http://www.articlealley.com/http://ishangoradiya2.articlealley.com/is-it-time-to-move-cash-into-equities-1879718.html 01st December 2010 The stock market is amazingly resilient. You might be surprised at how fast the stock market can change … for the better. Let’s look at how the market has recovered remarkably – and quickly – from some notable downturns. 2008-2009. The collapse of the ... http://www.articlealley.com/http://ishangoradiya2.articlealley.com/how-fast-the-markets-recover-1872740.html 26th November 2010 Dollar Ready to Rally as Europe Devolves into Crisis, G20 Sanctions Speculative Capital Curbs Euro: What is the Likelihood of a Second Crisis and How Would the Euro React to such an Outcome? Japanese Yen will Have to Prove Itself as Risk is Stirred and 3Q... http://www.articlealley.com/http://mito.articlealley.com/forex-dollar-ready-to-rally-european-established-as-part-of-the-crisis-g20-sanctions-speculative-c-1864724.html 24th November 2010 Early this morning, giant Target Corporation (NYSE/TGT) came out with its third-quarter profit, up 23% to 535 million dollars. More meaningful, the retailer said that it expects its current forth-quarter same-store sales to be the best in three years. ... http://www.articlealley.com/http://lombardipublishing2.articlealley.com/the-stock-sector-that-will-continue-to-surprise-on-the-upside-1858041.html 22nd November 2010 Three Types of Annuities There are three kinds of annuities. Each differs in how the money in your contract is invested. Fixed Annuity Your invested money will earn a fixed rate of interest that is guaranteed by the insurance company. Onc... http://www.articlealley.com/http://simon9.articlealley.com/know-what-you-should-consider-while-shopping-for-an-annuity-1849189.html 17th November 2010