15 Insurance Policies You Don’t Need
Learn how to save money by saying “no” to unnecessary coverage.
1. Private Mortgage Insurance
2. Extended Warranties
3. Automobile Collision
4. Rental Car Insurance
5. Car Rental Damage Insurance
6. Flight Insurance
7. Water Line Coverage
8. Life Insurance for Children
9. Flood Insurance
10. Credit Card Insurance
11. Credit Card Loss Insurance
12. Mortgage Life Insurance
13. Unemployment Insurance
14. Disease Insurance
Capitulation
Term of the Day for Monday, May 24, 2010
When investors give up any previous gains in stock price by selling equities in an effort to get out of the market and into less risky investments. True capitulation involves extremely high volume and sharp declines. It usually is indicated by panic selling.
The term is a derived from a military term which refers to surrender.
Hard Assets Still Make Sense
The current Euro Crisis has given investors a chance to add commodity producers to their portfolios at cheap prices. Here are some broad ways to do that.
Gulf Oil Spill Collateral Damage
The publicly traded energy companies directly involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are well known, but other non-energy companies may also suffer consequences.
Financial Ideas About Penny Stocks And Why Everyone’s Talking About Them.
Penny stocks are considered by the financial industry regulators, like the SEC and FINRA, to be securities which trade “over-the-counter”, as opposed to on a major stock exchange like the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) or NASDAQ.
An example (as of this writing) would be Titan Pharmaceuticals (TTNP). If you go to Google Finance, you’ll see it listed as Public, OTC:TTNP.
(Important Note: I AM NOT RECOMMENDING THIS STOCK, JUST PROVIDING AN EXAMPLE). By comparison the well-known Google itself shows up on Google Finance as Public, NASDAQ:GOOG. (NOT RECOMMENDING THAT EITHER).
The regulators also consider any stock priced at less than $5.00 per share to be a penny stock. The threshold used to be $1.00 per share, which makes more sense, but inflation has caused the minimum price to be higher, while the name just stuck.
Penny stocks have most often been viewed as having higher than normal risks. They typically represent ownership in a company which has struggled to make a mark in its business, or which perhaps faces stiff competition without anything protecting it or differentiating it from competitors. Another possibility might be a company which makes a product which becomes outlawed or infringes on another company’s patents.
These very low-priced stocks are not for the faint of heart, or perhaps even the otherwise normally brave! They are definitely not something you should Read More …
Investing In 3-D (IMAX, NWS, DWA, CKEC)
As the 3-D trend continues to grow, these are the stocks that will benefit the most. (IMAX, NWS, DWA, CKEC)
Top 4 Strategies For Managing A Bond Portfolio
Find out how these strategies work and how you can put them to work for you.
It’s time to add Apple to the Dow
Apple is no longer some plucky tech underdog scrambling to catch up with Microsoft. So isn’t it time for the company to join Microsoft in the venerable Dow Jones industrial average?
Goldman Sachs Isn’t The Next Enron.
Investors abruptly slammed on the brakes Friday after the SEC’s bombshell allegations of fraud against Goldman Sachs were announced.
