* After markets closed on Wednesday, ratings agency Moody’s warned that the United States could lose its top credit rating if lawmakers fail to increase the country’s borrowing limit, sending U.S. stock index futures sharply lower. * Moody’s said it would likely assign a negative outlook to the nation’s gold-plated credit rating if a credible …
Category Archive: Stock Market
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Jun 30
Top 10 worst performing US stocks of 2011
Company YTD performance Market cap 1. Monster Worldwide -43% $1.8 billion 2. AIG -42% $53 billion 3. Tellabs -40% $1.5 billion 4. Akamai Technologies -37% $5.5 billion 5. Hudson City Bancorp -36% $4.3 billion 6. Staples -33% $11 billion 7. RadioShack -32% $1.3 billion 8. Alpha Natural Resources -30% $9.5 billion 9. United States …
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Jun 29
How Microsoft’s stock reacted to rumors of Ballmer’s exit
This is crazy. Reaction of stock prices of Microsoft to the rumors of Ballmer’s exit was such that Volatility Index of MSFT would have zoomed out of the roof top. Market participants were so much confused that they created rather funny diagram of price movement of Microsoft. Here is the chart: As can be seen …
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Jun 27
What will Greek demise do to the world??
Policy makers are saying that they will not let Greece to default. Does that mean they are not looking at the other side? What if Greece defaults? Will that lead to unprecedented loss to world’s financial system or the small country like Greece, with population less than that of New York, will not have much …
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Jun 21
Most overvalued and undervalued stocks
Few of the best tech stocks are undervalued currently if we use PEG Ratio to find their valuations. Simultaneously, there are few stock which are highly overvalued but the interesting part is the fact that in spite to being overvalued to such a level these stock hardly correct themselves. They are rightly valued when overvalued, …
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Jun 13
Equities have given almost fixed return: Warren Buffet
Oracle of Omaha explains how the returns on equities in long run have been around 12% in post war era. In an article by Mr. Buffet, he explains lot more things on how inflation has taken away with investors wealth. It is no longer a secret that stocks, like bonds, do poorly in an inflationary …
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Jun 06
How to manage portfolio risk
Why do I say risk assessment is such an essential element in the investment process? There are three powerful reasons. First, risk is a bad thing, and most level-headed people want to avoid or minimize it. It is an underlying assumption in financial theory that people are naturally risk-averse, meaning they’d rather take less risk …
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