this is the first time I have ever put a dime in the stock market.
I am worried. Thanks.
Answer: When you invested this money, did you not realize the stock market had it's ups & downs?? Did you really think the stock market moved only one way, steadily upward??
If you are a long term […]
Standard investment advice is that you should invest in a diversified mix of stocks, bonds, and money market funds. You want to buy a diversified portfolio of stocks as individual stocks are too risky. Most folks have a dificult time buying a properly balanced portfolio of stocks on their own. They will misbalance their portfolio […]
Where and why if you don't mind. Amount is into the 6 digits but not to far…
Answer: Standard investment advice is that you should invest in a diversified mix of stocks, bonds, and money market funds. You want to buy a diversified portfolio of stocks as individual stocks are too risky. Most folks have a […]
Well. remember the days when you got physical share certificates when you bought shares. They are gone now. They have been replaced with a “dematerialized” account or demat account. So when you buy 100 shares of XYZ, they go into the demat account.
The actual process of buying and selling shares will […]
I look at the yahoo finance page and I see a bunch of numbers I am sure one of them can help me..I just don't know which ones. I have purchased a timy amount of stocks in a medium size company and I'd like to figure out what tiny percentage of teh company I own
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According to the Gold Eagle web site (see link, below), just prior to the 1929 crash the numbers for the companies reflected in the Dow Jones Industrial Average were:
• dividend yield around 2.9%
• price/earnings ratio around 16
• market/book ratio about 2
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