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Monday, November 17th, 2008
Market Mondays Mutual Fund Pick of the Week: James Market Neutral
Last week’s Market Mondays featured an overview of mutual fund basics and key concepts to fund investing. There is one correction to last week’s post in regards to the Management Fee explanation. In actuality, you will typically see what is known as the “expense ratio” of the mutual fund. Management fees are a piece of [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Business, Economics by Jason Morgan
Monday, November 10th, 2008
Excel Tutorial: Toolbar Customization
Microsoft Excel 2003 or prior versions come equipped with a decent standard toolbar that is easily customizable. Customizing your Excel toolbar can reduce time to complete many tasks by making options that normally require navigating several drop-down and pop-up menus available at one click of your mouse. This certainly does not replace hot keys in [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Technology by Jason Morgan
Monday, November 10th, 2008
Market Mondays Mutual Fund Basics
A mutual fund is a collection of cash pooled by investors that is professionally managed and invested according to the philosophy of that mutual fund. The major advantage to mutual funds is instant diversification of your portfolio without having to manage the investments directly. Most mutual funds are a collection of many different stocks, bonds, [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Business, Economics by Jason Morgan
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Stock Market Investing for Beginners
This is an all-in-one guide for those considering investing in the stock market. Beginning with explaining what the stock market is and how its ebbs and flows impact investors and then moving into explanations of different stock market metrics including a handy commonly used acronym guide, this will be meant for total subject matter coverage [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Business, Economics by Jason Morgan
Monday, October 27th, 2008
Market Mondays Stock Pick of the Week: Datascope Corp (DSCP)
This week’s stock pick is Datascope Corp (DSCP-NASDAQ), a medical-device company that develops, manufacturers, and markets products in the cardiovascular and vascular surgery and interventional cardiology and radiology health care markets. The majority of Datascope’s sales (87%) are from products in the cardio-assist business segment, which includes the Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP) system that is [...]
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