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71What Are the Most Important Items in a Financial Statement?
By Sean Ryan, CFA Each financial statement serves a particular purpose, and each one contains some items that are especially important. The two main financial statements are the Balance Sheet, and...
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69Comparing Companies in the Same Sector
By Alan Fleisig Two shiny, new cars sit on a dealer’s lot. Identical on the outside, one has a powerful V-8 and goes from 0-60 in 4 seconds, but only gets 18 miles to the gallon. The other is a...
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48WHAT COMPANIES CAN BE MONITORED FOR CLUES ABOUT THE HEALTH OF THE ECONOMY?
By: Sean Ryan Many different types of companies can be monitored for clues about the health of the economy. For example, transportation companies often offer insight into the level of business activity. If...
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55Will Holiday Sales be Better Than Expected?
We’re about to find out how healthy the average U.S. consumer truly is. If retail sales are up this season (November and December), it may well be the strongest sign yet the recession is over. Heart...
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74How to Measure a Stock’s Risk
By Alan Fleisig Most eternal questions are best left to philosophers. The eternal question of how to measure the risk of investing in a specific stock, however, has been pondered by investors,...
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52What Can a Stock's Past Movements Tell Me?
By James Brumley Does history hint at the future when it comes to stocks? Though the disclaimer “past performance is no guarantee of future results” has become something of a running joke,...
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66Reading a Stock Chart
By Alan Fleisig Plato is the source for the idea that “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” There is always “beauty” – meaning, in this instance, a piece of useful information – to be...
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71Why Does a Company Use Debt?
By Sean Ryan, CFA Companies use debt to increase the owners’ profits. Typically, a company will borrow money – either through a loan from the bank, or through bonds sold to investors –...
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65What is a Target Price?
By Alan Fleisig If you were boarding a plane, you would expect to know where the plane was going. When you choose to invest in a company stock, you should have an informed opinion on how that...
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61WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO CATCH A FALLING KNIFE?
By: Sean Ryan When investors speak about “catching a falling knife,” they aren’t talking about actually attempting to grab a meat cleaver as it plummets to the ground, but about a type of trade that...
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