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I remember many years ago, when the City of San Francisco started discussing taxing stock exchange transactions taking place at the Pacific Stock Exchange, the exchange executives started actively looking at other locations to relocate, in Alameda Country and Contra Costa County. San Francisco ...
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NYSE
NYSE Group
NASDAQ
The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced today that it priced a secondary public offering of 12,657,960 warrants to purchase common stock of Capital One Financial Corporation (the "Company") at $11.75 per warrant. The net proceeds to Treasury from the offering are expected to be ...
Government
Capital One
Treasury Bills
SEC
Financial Crisis
Deutsche Bank
Cambodia is moving forward with capitalism. They are building their first stock exchange in Phnom Penh. The exchange building will be built by World City Co. Ltd., a South Korean firm, and cost $6 million.It should be completed and ready for trading by late 2010.
Other
Two years ago, I published an article about the prices of houses that were featured in popular television shows from the past. I listed the values of the various homes according to Zillow. Can you guess if they have dropped in value from their 2006 levels or increased? The answer may surprise ...
Stocks
CA Inc.
One bonus of the global recession is that it wiped a lot of incompetent hedge fund managers and energy speculators from the canyons of Wall Street. As the Gordon Gecko sycophants regroup and look for the next Big Thing, maximizing profit while minimizing risk, the landscape looks very different ...
Commodities
Uranium
A Major Market Leader Falters… One of the big success stories in 2009 was the rise of Apple. With its sexy new products like the iPhone, the iPod, and the iMac, Apple has seen its fortunes rise in dramatic fashion. So what’s happening just before the holidays with Apple? Why are we seeing Apple ...
Stocks
Apple Inc.
Tiger Woods was the highest-paid professional athlete in 2008, having earning approximately $110 million. He is connected to a lot of publicly traded companies, acting as spokesperson for their products, record labels, and movie distributors. Back in February, I created the Tiger Woods Stock ...
Stocks
CSI 300 Index
Accenture
Fortune Brands
PepsiCo
Now I've seen everything. In Haradheere, Somalia, pirates have set up a stock exchange in a former bank building for investors to invest in and receive proceeds from pirate highjackings. Currently, 72 different so-called 'maritime companies' are now being traded on the exchange. So far during ...
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When reviewing all the stocks that make up the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, I was only able to come up with five stocks that yield s of 3% or more, a decent amount of cash, and total debt of $500 million or less. Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP), the payroll outsourcing company, yields 3%, ...
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S&P 500
Molex
Automatic Data Processing
Microchip Technology
First, let me preface this article with the statement that I am not a CPA or a tax attorney, and any of the following suggestions should be run past your own CPA and/or tax attorney. Second, some of these suggestions may trigger or adversely affect the Alternative Minimum Tax. Your tax advisor ...
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The stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends' has generated a lot of interest from investors. This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique ...
Stocks
I recently wrote about the Cantor Exchange , which allows the trading of Domestic Box Office Receipt Futures of current and upcoming movies. I decided to give the practice account a try. The practice account has a reward program called It Pays to Practice, and will continue until December 31. ...
Stocks
The Walt Disney Company
I can't believe that I didn't read The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable sooner. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author, had subsequently wrote Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets which I had reviewed a few months ago. I could say a lot about ...
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A new site was recently established which allows investors to rate over 3,000 financial products, brokers, blogs, websites, DVDs, newsletters and software. It is called Investimonials, and it allows registrants and reviewers to earn money towards various type of investment related products. Even ...
Other
It's amazing that there are over 25 stocks yielding more than 10% and selling for less than $10 a share. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has a list of low priced stocks, with market caps over $250 million, and very high yields . Here are some examples: Hercules Technology HTGC forward PE: 7.8 yield: ...
Stocks
Host Hotels & Resorts
Warren Buffett's famous Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A), the highest priced stock and one of the most successful companies during the last half-century, recently announced a stock split to take place next year that would divide its Class B shares (BRK-B) at a ratio of 50 to one. The B shares ...
Stocks
Berkshire Hathaway
Pfizer
The stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends' has generated a lot of interest from investors. This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique ...
Stocks
Regal Entertainment Group
EarthLink
Ameren
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Taylor Swift is the famous country singer, winner
of 40 awards, and made more famous by the...
incident with Kanye West at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. But she is successful for another reason. Taylor is connected to a lot of publicly traded ...
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Taylor Swift Stock Index Outperforms the Stock Market
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Are you good at evaluating movies and actors? Think you can do well predicting how well a movie will do at the box office? You should consider a unique investment: Domestic Box Office Receipt Futures. These DBOR future are available through Cantor Exchange , a subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, ...
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Cameron
If you like put your stock market profits towards collecting unusual items, how about the brain and blood of Mussolini ? On a recent auction on eBay (EBAY), a seller listed some blood and brain matter of famous dictator Mussolini. Minimum bid was $22,000. However, as soon as Mussolini's ...
