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Turbulent times – dollar drops again, gold gains ground
These are pretty interesting days as lots of things are going on right now on the financial markets. A couple of hours ago for instance JPMorgan Chase announced they’ll buy Bear Stearns for just $2 a share in a stock-swap deal and also significant is that the Fed agreed to fund up to $30 billion…
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Stock markets up bigtime today
It was a pretty interesting day on the stock market. The Fed pumped $200 billion into the market to boost liquidity in the financial system and this fueled a massive gain in the stock markets. The Dow Jones gained 416.66 points today, a 3.55% increase! That’s the biggest gain since the US invaded Iraq five…
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Google’s paid clicks are dropping
Google’s stock took another big hit today on fears that it won’t be able to meet Wall Street’s expectations. Market research firm comScore published a report today that indicated that the amount of paid clicks on Google’s search engine dropped 7% month-over-month in January and remained relatively flat with the same period last year. In its…
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Stock Market 101: Fundamental and Technical Analysis
The stock market and the economy are for a large part unpredictable but there are several techniques to help you pick the right stock for your stock portfolio. Fundamental analysis and technical analysis are two trading theories I’m getting familiar with. Fundamental analysis The way I see it fundamental analysis can help me to pick…
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NVIDIA gets hammered by Wall Street
I just learned the hard way that the stock market can be very unpredictable. Yesterday I wrote about NVIDIA’s earning results and I said I expected the stock to go up because earnings were higher than analysts expected and also because the guidance NVIDIA gave during the conference call was pretty good. I was quite…