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Five Market Mistakes to Avoid

November 9th, 2009

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Markets may have rebounded in 2009, but individual investors are still edgy and shell-shocked.
Even as the broad Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index remained up 56% since March, the U.S. unemployment rate crept above 10%, according to a Labor Dept. report released Nov. 6. “I don’t think many people are feeling very relieved,” says [...]

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Investing Lesson 4: Income Statement Analysis

November 9th, 2009

Purpose of the Income Statement
The primary purpose of the income statement is to report a company’s earnings to investors over a specific period of time. Years ago, the income statement was referred to as the Profit and Loss (or P&L) statement, and has since evolved into the most well-known and widely used financial report on [...]

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Investing Lesson 1 – Introduction to the Stock Market

November 9th, 2009

Have you always wanted to know how to understand a company’s annual report and financial statements? In this series of lessons, we set out to teach you how to take the financial statements of a company and carefully analyze them to determine what the stock is truly “worth”. This allows you make better investing decisions [...]

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