Bond investments require an acute understanding of periodic interest payments, inflation fluctuations, as well as how these factors affect the yield value. Owning a bond is attached to a stream of future cash repayments. These overheads act as a function of your required return and can be affected by oscillations in market prices. Measure your...
Municipal bonds are an investment category that has performed extremely well over the last couple of years. Investors are flocking to this area and need to understand the risks and rewards of Municipal Bond investing. These securities are not for everybody and have distinct risks when compared to other investments. What are bonds? Bonds are...
With the Occupy movement coming to the fore last year, Wall Street features prominently as a hot topic for current filmmakers. The latest slate of movies to come out tend to focus on the recent financial collapse of 2008, but with a setting so ripe for dramatic storytelling, Hollywood has explored the inner workings of...
Do you have any plan on how to survive at a time when there are any difficulties in the stock market? If it is your profession to deal with stock then you may face lots of uncertainties in your professional life. Sometimes the most reliable source on which we usually depend to get the proper...
Many people are interested in investing in stocks but step back due to the high brokerage costs. Compared to opening simple savings account the brokerage fees can seem unreasonable. Though hard to believe, some of the most profitable stocks of America can be purchased without opening a brokerage account at all. This helps you keep...
With the financial markets as volatile as they are today, we tend to highlight things we may not have noticed before and question the governing institutions that have direct and clear influence over the economy. One such financial market institution is the IMF otherwise known as the International Monetary Fund and sometimes known simply as...
The most appropriate definition of the Advance/Decline Line is that it is a technical indicator chart that presents the changes in the value of the advance-decline index over a certain period of time. The points plotted on the chart are evaluated by calculating the difference between the number of advancing/declining issues and then summing up...
Today the stock market is an integral part of our economy, and it is hard to imagine a time when it didn’t exist. That time was over 300 years ago. But, towards the end of the 17th century, when trading started in Jonathan’s Coffee House, situated near the Exchange Alley in the city of London,...
The best investments you wish you’d spotted may have got away from you because you didn’t realize how the world would change over time. In hindsight, shares in Ford, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Disney, and Tesco would have been good buys, if a little left field, in their early days. Technology is the Golden Goose Technology stocks...
Private equity refers to all equity in businesses that are not publicly traded The cumulative value of this equity is known as the private equity market. Why private equity? The private equity market has been growing since the 1970s and continues to do so despite the difficult economic conditions globally Tens of millions of pounds...