In a surprise move, famed investor Warren Buffet has invested $5 billion into Bank of America.
Berkshire Hathaway, run by Mr. Buffett, has agreed to buy 50,000 preferred shares that will pay a 6% annual dividend.
Bank of America has the option to buy back the shares at any time for a 5% premium.
By buying these shares [...]
You might remember Marc Andreessen, a co-founder of Netscape and co-founder and general partner of the hugely successful venture capital firm Andreessen-Horowitz.
He talks about the general pessimism surrounding American businesses and how short-sighted it is. For him, the place to invest now is in software. The phrase he uses is: “software is eating the world“.
The [...]
Those who keep cool heads while all around them are panicking make money in periods of market turmoil. Thus, today has brought out bargain hunters into the shell-shocked stock market.
What are today’s value buys? One question to ask is whether any stocks are above the country’s rating, which as we all know, is now rated [...]
In a time of panic in the stock market, fear is the prevailing mood among stock investors, just as greed prevails when markets are on a tear. Today, fear rules with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping 513 points or 4.31%.
This was the worst day on the stock market since the financial crisis at the [...]
Continued from part 1
Avoid Panic
If you had panicked during the great recession of 2008 and pulled all your money out after the 30% or so fall in stock values, you would have missed the stock recovery since.
Don’t panic. Remember that investing in stocks is a long-term proposition and there will be bad times as well [...]
The stock markets affect the lives of almost every person alive in the United States.
Even if not directly invested in stocks, we all deal on a daily basis with companies whose fortunes and consequently, services and products are affected by the swings of the stock market.
Most financial analysts believe that stocks are an essential part [...]
Prior to the World Wide Web, trading stocks required making use of brokers at a full service brokerage. To trade stocks, you would have to call or visit your broker, who would place trades on your behalf, usually for a steep fee.
Managing your portfolio similarly involved a management fee, typically a percentage of each trade [...]
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