NASDAQ is an acronymn for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations. It is the largest electronic screen based trading system in the United States. This website explains what the NASDAQ is and how it started. It also goes into describing the benefits of the electronic system when compared to the older telephone trading methods. NASDAQ was the first market to advetise to the general public.
"Investing Glossary" About.com:Ivesting for Beginners. October 22, 2007
URL: http://beginnersinvest.about.com/od/investingglossary/Investing_Glossary.htm
This gives definition and related term in investing bussiness in different level.
"Bond Glossary", Optionsxpress.com. October 22, 2007
URL: http://www.optionsxpress.com/educate/investing101/bond_vocab.aspx?sessionid
This url gives basic vocabularies for bonds market and related terms
*What is a share of stock and why would you buy one? What is a bond and why would you buy one? How do most people participate in the stock and bond markets?
“Stocks Basics: What Are Stocks?,” Investopedia.com, October 16, 2007.
URL: http://www.investopedia.com/university/stocks/stocks1.asp
This website defines what a stock is, a share of ownership to a company. The more stocks you invest in a company leads to a greater percentage of ownership. The site explains the significance of being a share holder describing the stock certificates and the obligations associated as well as the risks. It also explains the benefits for a company when issuing stocks. It also explains that share holders are not guaranteed a return.
“Introduction to Stocks,” Ken Little, October 16, 2007.
URL: http://stocks.about.com/od/understandingstocks/a/Stockintro.htm
This website also defines what a stock is and describes the different types of stocks. The share holders have a limited liability and when a company losses money, the share holder is not liable for the losses. It also describes common stocks, preferred stocks and liquidity of these stocks.
“Bond Basics: What Are Bonds?,” Investopedia.com, October 16, 2007
URL: http://www.investopedia.com/university/bonds/bonds1.asp
This article defines bonds as loaning money to an organization much like and IOU. There are interest payments made until the maturity date which is the date that the loan must be paid in full. Bonds are preferable to stocks because stocks are unstable/ higher risk.
“What Are Bonds?,” Kimberly Amadeo, October 16, 2007.
URL: http://useconomy.about.com/od/themarkets/f/Bond_Market.htm
This article also defines bonds and goes into paying off a bond before its maturity date. This would cause the rise and fall in the value of the bond. Due to their fixed interest rates, Bonds are more attractive to investors when the stock market declines.
"How Does an Individual Investor Participate in Stock Investing?," Kimberly Amadeo, October 17, 2007.
URL: http://useconomy.about.com/od/stocksandstockinvesting/f/Stock_Investing.htm
The trend for investing in the stock market is online because it is cheaper however the risks are greater. Peoples greed and fear tend to get in the way causing them to buy when the market is good and stocks are expensive and vice versa, sell for cheaper prices when the market is bad. Investment clubs and Financial Professionals is the best way to invest in the stock market because they know what they are doing. Greed and Fear do not interfere with their decisions.
"Bond: The Basics", Optionxpress.com. October 22, 2007
URL: www.optionxpress.com/educate/investing101/bond_basics.aspx?sessionid=
General ideas of pros and cons of bonds. Variety of different type of bonds
"Investing in Stocks", Optionxpress.com. October 22, 2007
URL: www.optionxpress.com/educate/investing101/investing_stocks.aspx?sessionid=
This website tells what are stocks and market cycle of stocks. This website has a lot of links for other information that might be interesting to you. www.better-inversting.org will help you to establish an investment club.
*What kinds of things about a company, an industry, or the economy should you consider when deciding whether to buy a share of stock?
"Choosing Good Stock Investments." Make-Money-Stock-Value-Investing.Com. 19 Oct. 2007
URL: http://www.make-money-stock-value-investing.com/good-stock-investments.html
This website contains a lot of information regarding all aspects of investing in stocks. The page referenced offers a viewpoint about what types of company stocks to avoid and how to narrow down the list of good choices. The author recommends choosing companies with large financial histories and a competitive advantage. This page is good because it explains in detail the list of things to avoid in a company and why. A possible weakness is that it only discusses the author’s opinion and not much about different methods of making investment decisions.
"Choosing Stocks From a Consumer Perspective." Benson, Bob. CollegeStock.Com. 19 Oct. 2007
URL: http://www.collegestock.com/articles/Choosing-Stocks-from-a-Consumer-Perspective.html
This website offers some simple steps to determine a company’s worth when making a decision to invest or not. The author believes that as consumers we should use our intuition about a company’s future by looking at the quality of products produced or trusting the perceived value of a product name. This is a good point of view because it stresses the opinion that it is not always all about reports and charts but it should also be about our trust in a company or brand. A weakness of this view is that sometimes it is easier to trust our money to factual numbers and professional market watchers.
“Five Star Stocks a Top-Down Approach Would Miss.” Kon, Michael. Morningstar.Com. 19 July 2006. 20 Oct 2007
URL: http://ibd.morningstar.com/article/article.asp?CN=aol828&id=168440
This article talks about good stock choices you might miss if you were looking at them from an economic standpoint. A top-down approach is when you start your search by looking at the economy and narrowing your decision based on what regions have a good GDP and then looking at what industries are good in different economic situations. The author also points out a few specific companies that would not pass this economic test but might still be good options. This page is good because it shows the process of choosing a stock from an economic standpoint. A possible weakness is that the author does not support this method so it really only points out the negatives of using this process.
*What are the major stock markets and what do they do for firms and investors? What do they do for society and the economy?
"Looking at Major Stock Market Indexes" Adapted From: Investing For Dummies, 4th Edition
Url: http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-2006.html
This article tells us what people really mean when they talk about "The Money" in stock market. It explains how Dow have 30 largest stock markets in the United States. It also shows what are some of the best stock investing companies in the Unites
States.
Url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_markets
This entire article shows us how much stock market is worth in whole world. Article is giving lot of examples about how stock market is affecting our individual investors and firms. It also shows what stock market is doing for our firms and investors. Its telling us when to buy or sell the stock, History of the stock market, how to properly invest in te stock market and what are some of risks you have to take when you invest your money in the stock market.
"Does a falling money stock cause economic depession?" Shostak, Frank. Gold-Eagle.com April19, 2003
Url: http://www.gold-eagle.com/gold_digest_03/shostak041903.html
This article talks about how falling stock market affects our economy and what does it do to our people in the united states. It also shows how our economy was struggling bad when The Great Depression happened in the 1930's.
"The Investor's Advocate: How the SEC protects investors, maitains market integrity, and facilitates capital formation", Sec.gov. October 22, 2007
URL: http://www.sec.gov/about/whatwedo.shtml
This site might help people interesting in how the SEC created, how is their structure. Ultimately that they protect investors like us and keep the capital formation functioning.
*What has been happening in the stock markets recently, both in trends and organizationally? Why?
"Reliable stocks for unreliable times" Brush, Michael. Moneycentral.msn.com. August8, 2007
Url: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/CompanyFocus/ReliableStocksForUnreliableTimes.aspx
This article is talking about is market still safe to invest money in? It talks about how too many borrowers had easy access to easy credit. And lenders are being more careful to lend money to people in the open market. Article also talks about the five richest companies for investing money. And it tells us what we need to avoid when we make a choice to invest in the stock market.
"Stock market/morgage market what's happening?" Deeds, Ralph. Hubpages.com. August08, 2007
Url: http://hubpages.com/hub/Stock_MarketMortgage_Market--whats_happening
This articles talks about how suddenly its not so easy to borrow money. Lenders are panic to let investors borrow money very easily. It also tells how US home Morgage market is going through bad times and closed down after laying off 6000 workers. Recently study shows that investors are no longer interested in riskier loans that morgage bankers been creating lately.
"Commercial real estate market slows" Caterinicchia, Dan.Seattletimes.com. October21, 2007
Url: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/R/REAL_ESTATE_COMMERCIAL_OUTLOOK?SITE=WASET&SECTION=DJSP_COMPLETE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-10-21-13-53-05
Articles talks about how housing markets been going downhill lately without harming commerical market. It talks about how non-residential projects jumped 15.2% in August, 2007. Article also talks about how residential market is going through bankrupsy's and commercial market remains strong because of their is more people to rent and the rent is rising.
"Current market conditions remain bullish", Steinhilber, J.D.. Seekingalpha.com. October 22, 2007
URL: http://seekingalpha.com/article/5883-current-market-conditions-remain-bullish
This article mention key elements that favors a bullish case, and some indicators that it might happen.
"The Homebuilder Stock Crash: I told you so", Stock-market-crash.net. May 25, 2006. October 22, 2007
URL: http://www.stock-market-crash.net/blog.htm
This article is so cool. It has all the charts of major markets and major homebuilder stocks performance. It provide an overall picture where the market is going, especially the housing market. Everyone has his own opion and analysis. What is yours???
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