Stock Market Results
I had to buy stocks for a class, how can I chart and graph the results from weeks ago?
I had to buy stocks on simustock for a college class. We are suppose to hand in a chart and graph detailing the weekly activity of our stocks. I’ve been working nonstop and this assignment just slipped my mind and now I have to chart my weekly results but I have no idea how to [...]
Can anyone recommend any books on personal finance?
I would love to read some books that really get to the facts about earning money by using some techniques that the rich use. Leveraging with the banks money, aggressive moves in the stock market, etc. I hate hearing save your pennies and compound the savings over forty years. I’m 40 and I need to [...]
Questions about stock splits and cost basis?
I found bits and pieces of my question in other posts but I am going to ask it here in whole. Thanks.
A company thinks their stock is overvalued and doubles the number of outstanding shares (e.g. 2 for 1 split) and cuts the price in half resulting in no immediate market value change.
As an investor [...]
stock and dividend unit is stumping me can someone show me how to calculate this?
A company with 100,000 authorized shares of par common stock issued 40,000 shares at . Subsequently, the company declared a 4% stock dividend on a date when the market price was a share. What is the amount transferred from the Retained Earnings account to Paid-in Capital accounts as a result of [...]
i have had a locked in self directed rrsp since 2000-can i deduct fees and stock losses on my tax return?
since 2000 i have had about 00 in a self directed locked in rrsp and over the years as a result of poor investments in the stock market it has fallen to about 00. i have never made any claims for these capital losses nor have i ever claimed any fee paid to administer this [...]
Bail out, stock market, and our economy?
I don’t know much at all about this stuff, but I’m really curious. I heard the Dow dropped 715 points, because congress voted no on the bail out.
My question is, What is the bail out? Why do people think we needed it? What caused our economy to be so bad that we needed one? and [...]
Can Obama really control the market?
True or false: The stock market has dropped as a direct result of President Barack Obama’s statements made during press conferences held in the past 2 months.
If possible, please provide links to sources that back up your claim.
Just "true" or "false", please; you may show your work, but it’s not required. Thanks!
Scribbly – [...]
In light of the failure of the economy, don’t we have to examine free markets?
I mean Bush gave everything to business, oil companies, tax credits, deregulation, and the result has been stock market crashes, financial panic, not to mention a lackluster economy and a continuing erroding of what is left of manufacturing.
Just what is the conservative’s response?
Phillyfranc – Didn’t Bush try this? Or is this just an impossible thing [...]
Spiritually Speaking: Have any of you tried the "Recession diet"? Its from the makers of "Stock-Market-B-Gone"?
The recession diet works simple, and it works too!
1. Get your wages cut at work.
2. As you spend more money to make rent, you spend less money on food.
3. As you spend less money on food, you eat less.
4. As you eat less, you lose weight*!
5. ????
6. Profit!
God, dont you love how the economy is [...]
Bush's economic policy of flooding the US with counterfeit money to prop up the stock market has devalued…
the dollar so much now that it has cost the US economy it’s #1 spot. It is now the euro zone that has the largest economic output in the world:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1491971920080314
In 2003, Fox News viewers regularly accused those who disagreed with them of "looking French". Today, looking French isn’t so bad after all, is [...]