10 Dec 2004 10:22 AM

Investors need to get an idea of what is behind the numerous figures of the quarterly reports. It can be hard for an inexperienced investor to understand the point of this obscure paperwork. The first thing to take note of here is the company’s profit, i.e. the bottom line of the income statement called net income.

09 Dec 2004 11:11 AM

Valuation of a company in terms of its shares is a long and effort-taking process. Yet individual investors will find it helpful to get to know about the main stages of the process as they can perform nearly all of the stages on their own. When

06 Sep 2004 08:20 AM

The key point of investing funds is minimizing risks and getting income. To know more, it is important to distinguish between different processes investment comprises. We begin with the simplest terms, yet most likely unknown for the majority of the readers, winding up with the most optimal

06 Sep 2004 07:12 AM

With the stock market growing fast, stock mutual funds continue playing an important role. Mid caps, short for medium capitalization, refer to stocks with a capitalization in between $500 million and $7 billion. To understand properly mid caps, it is important to really distinguish between “small”, “medium” and “large” caps.

06 Sep 2004 05:57 AM

Financial markets provide their participants with the most favorable conditions for purchase/sale of financial instruments they have inside. Their major functions are: guaranteeing liquidity, forming assets prices within establishing proposition and demand and decreasing of operational expenses, incurred by the participants of the market.