As the financial turmoil continues to make its way through the market investors have decided that turning towards the safety of hard assets like Gold is a prime strategy. Thus the Gold bull is officially back as Gold jumped $70 per ounce today to close at $850.50 which marks the largest one day price gain [...]

US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson has been under the spotlight once again after bailing out American International Group (AIG) today, proving bankruptcy was not an option. The deal gives $85 Billion to AIG and 79.9% control of the company to the US government. With “catastrophic” effects if AIG were to go down, does this make [...]

The best online stock brokers don’t always have to have cheap trade commissions. A lot goes into providing a well rounded service which can make even $19.99 trades a worthwhile price to pay. Regardless of what price is paid though one important factor must always be taken advantage of, flat fee trades.

What is the current World Record for the largest portfolio return in a single year trading stocks?

Shares of American International Group (AIG) plummeted to new record lows this morning after nervousness continued to mount that a Federal bailout for the Insurance broker might not take place. Just last Monday that the stock traded as high as $24.68.

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The Great Gatsby, considered among the 20th century’s best works of fiction, is approximately 40,000 words.  Herman Melville’s epic Moby Dick is nearly 215,000 words.  Each week I write this commentary I spend between 1,200 and 1,800 words describing either the current state of the market or a relative issue affecting the capital markets.  Over [...]

When a company’s existing shares are automatically divided into multiple shares it is known as a stock split.  Splits are typically bullish in nature and are commonly used to both identify the health of a company and lower the overall stock price.