For most of the people, the market is a frightful thought because they have witnessed the awful effects it can have when things go screwy. Stock plunged after Enron, and even if amalgamations are voiced as with the case of Chase and Bank One, the stockmarket feels the effects. Even DuPont saw its stock costs drop when negative info is publicized, so the stock exchange, most of the time, is a variable entity.
How does a new investor avoid the pitfalls of the stock market? Research is the only way, and it’s no ironclad guarantee. That means before you invest, you adopt the habit or reading the NYSE and DOW reports in the daily newspapers as well as reading the business section of the newspaper for any reports that may affect the stock prices of a company you may be considering. Of course, sadly, utility companies are always making money, but they are doing it at the expense of consumers like you and me. For some people, investing in the electric or water company is the only place they feel safe, but with all of the mergers of electric companies, that isn’t even a very safe investment in the 21st Century.
A new financier has to do some heavy reading and studying before making an investment in the stock exchange. Thi
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The It’s Only Money blog went through a minor transition Wednesday morning. The blog’s framework is changing to a format that is more easily searchable by Google, Yahoo! and other search engines.
Brent Hunsberger’s blog can still be found at oregonlive.com/itsonlymoney, though the official address will be oregonlive.com/finance. If you have another address bookmarked or are using an RSS feed, you will want to redirect to the new address. Here’s the RSS feed address: impact.oregonlive.com/finance/atom.xml
You will still receive the same great content you’ve come to expect from Brent.
Thanks for making the change.
– The Oregonian
I’ve forgotten a birthday or two. I have 11 nieces and nephews, 11 siblings and their spouses, 9 immediate family members on my husband’s side, 3 grandparents, 2 parents, and a husband. I’m not going to even remotely try to add up aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Sooo, yes. I forget birthdays here and there.
Add on the stress of day job work, night job work, baby classes at the hospital, doctor’s appointments, graduations, my grandmother’s 90th birthday/family reunion, and weeklong work training trips, and I was a bit surprised to receive an e-mail this morning from Rubio’s Baja Grill…
‘In celebration of your birthday, enjoy a meal on us!’ with an attached coupon.
Huh? Whose birthday?!?
I frantically glanced at the calendar. ‘What month is it?!?!’ I wondered aloud. And there it was, scribbled in bright pink on the department calendar by one of my co-workers, ‘Beks Birthday!’
I’m giving my husband a pass this year. No gifts, cards, or birthday acknowledgement required. If I can’t remember my birthday, I don’t expect him to remember it. He can put the cash into our savings account and we’ll call it a wash.
But thanks for the $7.00 burrito with no strings attached Rubio’s Baja Grill. You guys rock!
Weve all been pitched the social media hype about how setting up a business profile will miraculously make our businesses more popular or successful. The unavoidable media frenzy proclaims, Your business needs to be on Facebook and Twitter NOW! Although sale conversions on social media sites might not be worth your time, money and effort, setting up social profiles to direct additional traffic to your site and build relationships with customers certainly should be.
When well thought out and carefully implemented, a companys social media presence allows for additional — and most importantly, free — marketing avenues. Maintaining a strong online presence via social media platforms also allows businesses to engage with new and existing clients.
In the recent past, a companys presence on social networking sites lacked any significant impact on its search engine rankings, but that trend seems to be changing. Search engines, specifically Google and Bing, are now using social signals to help determine a web pages ranking in search results.
Now professionals are trying to grasp the actual effects that social sites have on their SEO. For example, Google and Bing generally say that social profiles give off human signals as opposed to traditional link signals. Sin
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Exchange traded funds tracking the euro’s movements against the dollar have gained ground this week on speculation austerity measures would pass in Greece. Now that the vote is in the rearview mirror, investors are trying to anticipate the euro’s next move.
It’s an important question because stocks have tended to follow the euro’s fluctuations versus the greenback recently.
CurrencyShares Euro Trust was up 7.6% for the year-to-date period ended June 28, according to Morningstar. The ETF profits when the euro strengthens against the dollar, and rose before the Greek vote.
On the flip side, traders will be closely watching the Dollar Index to see if it can hold here after recently notching some “higher lows.”
“Despite another step forward in Greece with regard to the passage of austerity measures, the CurrencyShares Euro Trust failed to break out from its coiling consolidation of the past two months,” said Tarquin Coe, technical analyst at Investors Intelligence, in a newsletter Wednesday.
“That implies uncertainty still persists and consequently the volatile range looks set to continue. That does not bode well for the U.S. markets as the tw
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