Recent questions tagged stock market

Description : Is the bell from the New York Stock Exchange made from gold?

Last Answer : 1) It’s brass. Go to the NYSE web site and read about it. 2) Gold is too soft of a substance for a bell anyway. It would dent rather than clang.

Description : Can someone explain what shorting stocks means?

Last Answer : I am no financial expert, but this is my understanding. You pay someone to borrow their stock for a certain period of time. You immediately sell the stock in the hope that the value will decrease. You can then ... way up, you have to pay it in order to return it to the person you borrowed it from.

Description : As a stock investment which do you trust more? AT&T or Apple?

Last Answer : AT&T (my former employer) is in court, trying to push past the government's attempts to stop a merger with Time/Warner. When that is decided, the stock will rise, regardless of what that decision is. ... its footing. Don't count them out, but don't expect that they will return to their better days.

Description : If you claim credit when things are good, should you be blamed when things go bad?

Last Answer : Yes of course. Unless one is insane? Logic doesn't seem to apply to Trump only winning. Unless in a slim chance that he was right from the start, and everyone in media and politics is ... from optimistic to pessimistic extremes to whatever works. Maybe he read The Secret from Oprah's book club.

Description : What does it mean to short a stock?

Last Answer : To short a stock is to sell stock one does not own. Security holdings are known as positions . A long position means one has bought the security. If you are long and then sell it, that is ... the stock at a lower price than where it was sold. The difference is the profit from short selling.

Description : What is happening to the Caracas General stock market?

Last Answer : It’s called hyperinflation just like Germany in the 1930’s. It would take a wheelbarrow of money to buy a loaf of bread in Germany in the early 1930’s.

Description : What is the minimum cost to own one , or the minimum share, of each or the TSX and/or DOW stocks?

Last Answer : answer:For the Dow Jones Industrial Average, as of today’s close, $2,629.62 US, for one share of each component. Plus brokerage commissions, totaling about $270 for 30 transactions. It would have been about $600 more before AAPL split 7 for 1.

Description : Do you think the stock market will go down 50% in 2014 and why?

Last Answer : We are due for a correction but 50% is sensational “doom and gloom” I don’t think we’ll see that but you never know. The market is a savage unpredictable beast.

Description : How do you explain to a child how the stock market works?

Last Answer : answer:It could be like exchanging gifts for Christmas in school. You expect to get a better gift than the one you are sending out.Sometimes it will be and sometimes it wont.When it isn’t great you wish you had not got the other person such an expensive gift. Hope this analogy makes sense.

Description : How do you decide if your source is a "pumper"?

Last Answer : answer:It's called pump and dump and is especially common with small cap stocks. I read a book a year ago about Wall Street and you'd be surprised at some of the big names that do this ... re more likely to come across good ideas before millions of people have heard about it from Cramer or others.

Description : Any good stocks to buy today?

Last Answer : BP? The price is pretty low right now. :-)

Description : How are stock prices derived?

Last Answer : When the company decides to go public they set the price and the number of shares I believe. From there, market takes over. Company can then decide to split shares. You can issue an automatic request to buy ... in time. There are other things you can do, but I forget what they are. Hope that helps.

Description : What would be some fun stocks to own (watch)?

Last Answer : answer:I have a weseed account and bought Dominos with there new pizza make over and Waste Management after seeing a show with the CEO doing some overhaul. Starbucks would be a good one , I ... energy companies and they have not faired well, First Solar and SunTech Power Holdings are two I have.

Description : What is a One-for-Eight Reverse Stock Split?

Last Answer : If you divide your 500 shares by 8, that is now how many share you have (62.5). If the stock had gotten too cheap, this is a way to make it more valuable. (For example, instead of 8 shares worth a dollar each, you now have one share worth $8.)

Description : Stock market question, what are some stock trends that you think are coming?

Last Answer : Hipster Puppies. Whole tragedies of them.

Description : Which stocks are you currently watching?

Last Answer : If you find out, let me know. I can give you a list of “dogs of the Dow” if you like.

Description : When a public company's actions affect many innocent people due to their personal greed, what can be done to remedy their actions?

Last Answer : Hold individuals accountable for corporate misdeeds.

Description : What 5-stock equally weighted portfolio from the S&P has the highest expected volatility for tomorrow?

Last Answer : If I understood what the hell you just said, would I be rich right now?

Description : Are you even phased by the Market at this point?

Last Answer : Empress: I think you mean “fazed,” as in “disturbed” or “disconcerted.” Yes? if so, I am unsettled but prepared to ride things out for a year or so.

Description : How does George Bush suck?

Last Answer : with his mouth?

Description : Can one spouse sell or trade stock without the other's permission...?

Last Answer : It would depend on how the account is set up they can be set up as an EITHER/OR account (so each party could do whatever they wanted) or as an AND account (so both parties would need to authorize ... to set up accounts, such as trusts and so on, that may have two names, but only one has control.

Description : Is the stock market really necessary and why?

Last Answer : FYI You dont need a lot of money to make money in the stock market.

Description : Can anyone reccomend a good paper trading website?

Last Answer : What is paper trading? Do you mean investing on-line?

Description : I have a bit of extra money laying around and would like to invest in stocks...

Last Answer : answer:The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index (30 blue chip stocks like Ge, GM, MSFT, IBM) hit an all-time high today. DJ I would park the money in a short-term CD - you can find the higher ... will be richish in yr retirement yrs; that is better than trying and failing to get rich in middle age.

Description : Why would a company not want to split their stock when the price starts getting kind of high?

Last Answer : answer:Some companies envision a high stock price as prestigious and do not split their stocks. The effect of a stock split is nil on the overall capitalization of the company. Look at Berkshire-Hathaway, ... share price is up around $400. I haven't checked it lately. There are other examples. srm

Description : is citigroup stock a sell or a hold?

Last Answer : Oh, dear. It was a “sell” months ago. Now I think you are in trouble, but you could use it as a capital loss for est. 2008 taxes. RIP.

Description : What do you think about the stock market "getting drunk" and now haveing a "hangover"?

Last Answer : I actually can’t bring myself to read about the economy, simply because it just scares me too much… same goes for just about everything Dubya says, but if he said that, I’m not the least bit surprised. I’m leaving it at that.