Article Master (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Most investors shun the stock markets as soon as they start going down hill or they hold onto their stocks hoping in vain to sell the stocks when they will rise. Well you can certainly hold the stocks but then you will not have any cash to buy stocks when they are low. The primary [...]
Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Having observed from afar the recent Halifax share rights issue, it re-inforces my view that ordinary investors can have little faith in the operation of the Stock Market, and putting your cash in your own business, property, or under the mattress is much safer. If you are in any doubt just read this story - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2008/07/underwriters_short_hbos.html Regards...
Banking Business Review (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
FBR Capital Markets has reported a net after-tax loss of $25.2 million for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008 as against net after-tax earnings of $21.8 million for the comparable quarter of 2007.
Patterico's Pontifications (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Posted by WLS: If you have forgotten you can read it again here. Funny thing happened after the price fell two days in a row, totaling a 7% decline — it continued to fall all the way to today. Recall that subject of my post last week was the closing price of $134.60, which was a drop of over $10 in just two [...]
Nikkei (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Polishing Market To Win Back IndividualsTOKYO (Nikkei)--The Japanese stock market tends to closely mirror that of the U.S. Look at the relationship between the closing price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the price of the Nikkei Stock Average immediately after trading opens the following day and you will find that over the two years through July 22 -- a period that includes 483 trading days...
Stocks Mutual Funds (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The average in investor is usually satisfied with a 10% to 15% return on their money and ecstatic if they get an annual return over 20% on their stocks. However, what if you were told how to make big money in the stock market every day, not just annually? That would be exciting. You can, but it's not that easy to do. The people that earn the big returns are day traders or short-term investors. They...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
Positive sentiment circled the financial sector, following Wall Street's cue, which focused on Wachovia's turnaround plan rather than a number of negative earnings reports
Financial Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
Eurex, Europe's largest derivatives exchange, joined the rush to provide clearing services for over-the-counter credit markets by unveiling plans to clear credit default swaps
Nikkei (Free subscription) | yesterday
MARKET SCRAMBLE: Investors Roiled By Delisting Of Former E*TradeTOKYO (Nikkei)--One lesson that investors can glean from the convoluted history of E*Trade Securities is to think twice before taking a stake in a company whose parent is also publicly listed.
Nikkei (Free subscription) | yesterday
Idemitsu's Gas Prices To Better Reflect Oil Market's MovementsTOKYO (Nikkei)--Idemitsu Kosan Co. (5019) said Wednesday that it plans to start linking its wholesale prices of gasoline, diesel and two other petroleum products to oil futures and spot prices so that higher procurement costs are promptly reflected in the prices it charges to gas stations.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
PRINCETON, N.J., July 23, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Pharmacopeia (Nasdaq:PCOP), an innovator in the discovery and development of novel small molecule therapeutics, today announced that Dr. Joseph A.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
PT. RICHMOND, Calif., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Transcept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that Glenn A.
Mondo Visione (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Today, the Interagency Task Force on Commodity Markets (Task Force or ITF), chaired by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), released a staff report offering a preliminary assessment of fundamental and market factors affecting the crude oil market. The ITF's Interim Report on Crude Oil studied fundamental supply and demand factors and the roles of various market participants, and it found...
Nikkei (Free subscription) | yesterday
MARKET SHARE SURVEY: Cold MedicineTOKYO (Nikkei)--Although the cold medicine market saw some realignment among drugmakers in fiscal 2007, there were no major changes in their standings, with Taisho Pharmaceutical Co. (4535) holding onto the top spot.
Nikkei (Free subscription) | yesterday
MARKET SHARE SURVEY: CosmeticsTOKYO (Nikkei)--Domestic shipments of cosmetics inched down 0.5% on the year to 1.29 trillion yen in 2007.
