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General motors stock falls 30% ... in 1 day! If that isn't bad enough, the price is below $5.00 --- it was in the 1950's when it was last this low. So, does this spell the end for GM? Can it survive? Confidence in this huge employer just doesn't seem to think so. (Note ... can someone please...

Everyday I get 2-6 emails that consist of a couple of paragraphs from a novel and a blurry image touting some penny stock that "is on the verge of skyrocketing." My filter catches around 95% of them, but I opened one today that had a friend's name in the return address. I am having a hard time...

Apparently this law has been on the books and available to every president since Carter, but no one has exercised this power (as far as we know) and no one until bush has given the power away to lesser powers outside of the oval office. The law allows corporations, in the name of national...

hiya....i'm doing a bit of teach-yourself stock market research from http://www.investopedia.com Arbitrage is the exploitation of an observable price inefficiency and, as such, pure arbitrage is considered riskless. Consider a very simple example. Say Acme stock currently trades at $10 and a...

I have a few questions about the stock market and I don't understand it at all. So I will post a few questions and you all can answer them and also provide links to sites that explain how the stock market works. Firstly...Say I want to buy stock. What do I do? Say I find a Company I want to...

Where do you think the stock market will be in 5 years? If you were investing, what's the safest bet? What's the riskiest thing you would do? What would you completely avoid? I think technology is going to be very risky, and obviously anything transportation related may be in trouble, unless...

Why did an Arab news agency have a picture of an Italian Secret Service Agent? In the NY Times account of the mistaken friendly fire incident that wounded a kidnapped Italian journalist and killed her savior, the Times credits a picture of the secret service agent who shielded her and took a...

The church always preaches against gambling, but they dont seem to mind people playing the market. Even the church will invest money. Whats the difference if I buy some stock vs. betting on the Cowboys to win this weekend. They are both risks based on educated estimates of what will happen...

Oh, it must have been two years ago. I suggested that we buy stocks in the down market and see how we were doing a year later - sort of a contest. I got a share of each: ADVP, COCO, PFCB, and SCRI. Well, didn't do too well compared to the guy who put it all on ORCL. Anyway, my new broker...