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Our blog is made for people, who want to start trading stocks. Since we barely knew anything about stocks and what is behind them, our page is conceived for starters like us.
Going through our articles will help you to develop a profound knowledge of the system behind stocks, its language and through our group project we demonstrate how to transfer the gained knowledge into action.
Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index
Invest in gold! This is very common financial advice. Gold is supposed to be very stable and also a very liquid asset. The tradition of investing your money in gold goes back hundreds of years, and therefore also has an honorable position in many investors hearts. The demand for gold is pretty much always exists, and a stock in gold is considered to be safe and carry minimal risk.No sexy Growth at Playboy Enterprise
The principal activities of Playboy Enterprise are creating and distributing multimedia lifestyle entertainment for adult audiences. It operates in three segments: Entertainment (managing the magazine), Publishing (controlling of electronic assets) and Licensing (licensing the bunny logo and playboy name to third parties). › Continue reading
Intel’s naive try of a netbook-based app store
Company information:
Intel Corporationis a semiconductor chip maker with the headquarter in Santa Clara, California that develops advanced integrated digital technology products like integrated circuits for computing industries and for communication industries.They develop platforms that work together to optimize computing solutions compared to other which develop them separately. So all in all it helps costumers create flexible computing and communication systems. Intel Corporation had a revenue of $37,6 billion and a net income of §5,3 billion in 2008. Paul S. Otellini is the CEO and another 83 900 employees are working for Intel.
To get more information go to: www.intel.com
Yahoo! CEO not content with her work
Company information:
Yahoo! Inc.belongs to the internet market industry and has its headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. In 2008 there were 13 600 employees working for Yahoo! Inc. with Carol A Bratzas the CEO. Yahoo! offers their users a wide variety of services, like search, e-mail, instant messaging, travel services, online shopping, financial information, news in general and video platforms just to list couple.
Their high number of users makes Yahoo’s web pages leaders in their categories. Yahoo! Inc. is one of the most popular internet destinations in the world, operating in 30 countries. Therefore they offer advertisers many different ways to reach consumers. For example with premium display advertising or an online ad network. Another advantage of advertisers is that the advertisements reach Yahoo owned web pages and the pages of third-parties. And since advertisements account for 90% of Yahoo’s total revenue it is their goal to create a shop for online advertisers where they offer all the different options. The other 10% of the revenue is generated by fees on premium services. The revenue reached $7,2 billion and the net income reached a total of §424,3 million in 2008.
For further information go to: www.yahoo.com
Oracle’s value of shares increased
Company information:
Oracle Companyis the No. 2 business software maker in the world with its headquarter in Redwood City, California. It developes, manufactures and distributes databases, software and application software which helps customers manage their business operations. So basically customers sign maintenance contracts when buying the software and so is the revenue mainly generated. In 2009, 86000 employees worked for Oracle Corporation with Lawrence J. Ellisonas the CEO. In the past year it even reached a revenue of $23,3 billion and a net income of $5,6 billion.
For further information: www.oracle.com
I make my money in Japan
Assuming that every body’s goal is to make money with stocks, I honestly don’t care where my gains come from. In my case it’s Japan, or better, thanks to the Japanese automobile industry I make money.
My Honda stock (HMC) and my Toyota stock (TM) both gained on value again. › Continue reading
Ups and Downs
The last weeks my stocks have been very moody. They delivered gains for several days, only to drop by almost the double amount the following day. And so it went on. But today is yet another good day with a gain of $ 37.87, which is an increase of 3.56 %. My current value is now $ 1,102.70.
I think it is exciting to follow how my stocks are doing (even though they are not real). I have even got my favorites, which are my 16 sugar stocks. They have been responsible for many of my down turns, but also many of my needed gains. › Continue reading
Sony Corp
Howard Stringer - CEO
Yesterday I got rid of my 6 WWE stocks, since they experienced a loss over the past weeks. Luckily my DIS and existing SNE stocks could cover it, but I realized that my profit would be much bigger without them. And so I traded them in for another 4 SNE stocks in, even though I read that Sony is a very risky investment at the moment, since it is experiencing some problems internally. See here. › Continue reading
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