Investing
E-Trade Customer Appreciation Day and ……
So now E-Trade Financial seems out of the immediate danger of going out of business, they want to show their appreciation to those customers who chose to stay with them after the firm revealed big losses from subprime mortgage loans and saw their stock sink more than 50% in one day. An email from E-Trade [...]
Finding the Funds That Beat the S&P 500
In the third part of the 2007 Consumer Reports Ultimate Money Guide, a method was provided by the magazine on how to beat the broad market index, which is repeated in the following:
No-load: Look at no-load funds only.
Low-fee: Identify those with lowest expense ratios.
High-asset: Keep those with the most assets under management.
Long-tenure: Get rid of [...]
Prices of Gold Coins: How are They Determined?
Did you ever wonder why the prices of bullion coins containing the same amount of gold are different and how they are determined?
Yesterday, I read an article on GoodSeek.com (I also subscribe to their free daily Gold Seeker Report, which provides a nice summary of the precious market) that explains the prices discrepancy among gold [...]
Switching from Firstrade to Tradeking
As 2007 comes to an conclusion, I make another change of my investment accounts over the weekend when I opened a TradeKing account, which will replace Firstrade as my main stock broker for stocks that pay dividend.
I got the Firstrade account in early 2006, mainly for its free dividend reinvestment feature, one that my primary [...]
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