E*Trade, Scottrade, and Ameritrade are today’s leading online brokerage companies that offer a simple way to buy and sell stocks. If you’re not an experienced investor, but still want to take a plunge into the stock market, learning about different options available can help you find out the benefits of each. Still, each brokerage offers [...]
For most NRIs as well as the rest of Indians, buying a house is perhaps their biggest one-time investment. A decade back, most of the salaried people in the country and abroad would put their lifetime savings at the fag end of their career to buy a home for themselves. In the past one decade, [...]
Be that as it may, bank stability seems to high on corporate and investor agenda now. And it is against this backdrop that the Global Finance magazine has published its 18th annual list of the world’s safest banks. The dust seems to be settling now after two eventful years that witnessed many financial giants drop [...]
Great traders are created, not born. Those who lack discipline, persistence and self-confidence lose the never-ending challenge of trading profits. But those who survive the battle by using the tools used by the masters enjoy the fruits of consistent success. Different master traders use different methods and approaches. But what is that one aspect that [...]
Lehman falls, Merrill sold, AIG nationalised. What next? Remember reading one such headline on a September morning in 2008? And the collapse did not stop there. From the United States to Iceland to Kazakhstan, banks and insurance companies were either acquired or merged or went belly-up thanks to a fatal combination of pure greed, bizarre [...]
#1: Lehman Brothers With General Motors becoming the 99th American company this year to go under, the current year may go into record books with a dubious distinction of having maximum number of public company bankruptcies. So far, the record is held by 2001, when as many as 263 companies filed for bankruptcy in the [...]
General Motors Corp filed for bankruptcy on Monday, forcing the 100-year-old iconic car major which has been one of the most visible symbols of American capitalism and economic might into uncharted waters of nationalization or government ownership. This is the third-largest bankruptcy filing in American history and the largest-ever US bankruptcy in the manufacturing arena. [...]
Are we mired in a long-term recession or will the “green shoots” of economic growth we’re seeing be the real thing? Without a crystal ball we can’t predict an official end date to the downturn but we can safely tell you the six worst things you could do in the meantime: Ignoring the situation. [...]
In these extraordinary times, card issuers’ plan to erase up to 40% of some customers’ debt would also be good for those who pay their bills on time. By David Lazarus When I heard last week that banks want to forgive up to 40% of some customers’ credit card debt, my first question was, “What’s [...]
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