about 2 hours ago - No comments
Europe’s financial troubles apparently haven’t killed the party in the capital markets: Companies in the U.S. and Europe are raising huge sums of cash by selling bonds again after a brief bout of Greece-related jitters. One thing to look out for, however, are signs that some firms are having to compete [...]
about 11 hours ago - No comments
This week The Wall Street Journal and VentureSource ranked the top 50 U.S. venture-backed companies with the most potential to become “the next big thing.” You can check out the list, along with the methodology, here.
We thought we’d take a look at where these companies reside. After all, if these are the next Ciscos, Microsofts [...]
about 12 hours ago - No comments
When the Bush and Obama administrations bailed out two Detroit auto makers, pundits naturally wondered whether the taxpayers would get their money back.
Steven Rattner, the recent head of President Obama’s auto task force, is sounding more bullish on the prospect that taxpayers could see their $50 billion investment in General Motors returned.
Using a back-of-the-envelope [...]
about 18 hours ago - No comments
Andrew has a post titled “Reality and the Wall Street Journal” in which he lays into Scott Rasmussen for daring to claim, in the Wall Street Journal, that health care reform is unpopular:
And yet the latest YouGov poll, reflecting the direction of many others, now shows a majority favoring reform, 53 – 47, as I [...]
about 21 hours ago - No comments
It’s always good to have something to look forward to.
Well, try this one on for size: J.P. Morgan Chase is reportedly projecting ahead into the not too distant future and has concluded that bank-owned sales “as a share of total home sales will remain at current or even higher levels three years from now…” reports [...]
about 1 day ago - No comments
You know the labor market is tight when the local McDonald’s starts handing out $300 signing bonuses. Workers are coming in from all over, making it tough to find housing. They might sleep in their trucks or pitch tents, but it can get 50 degrees below zero, which makes such a move dangerous.
There is also [...]
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As we’ve pointed out before, there are two parts to a political system. One part is shrewd, calculating and corrupt. The other is stupid, senseless, and earnest. The first is surprisingly predictable. The second is predictably surprising.
Like the two sides of the brain, people use politics both ways. On the right side, they use it [...]
about 1 day ago - 1 comment
For some reason, an important graphic was left out of the online version of this story in today’s Wall Street Journal and it seemed like a good idea to reproduce it here in an attempt to better understand the questions that David Wessel asks about whether stocks are cheap or expensive, today, on [...]
about 1 day ago - No comments
Filed under: salesforce.com inc (CRM), Stocks to Buy
Customer relationship software giant Salesforce.com (CRM), which I first wrote about on June 18, 2009 at a price of $40.16, should register impressive growth in 2010 and 2011, hence the stock remains attractive, despite being a little pricey.
This year, Salesforce.com is going to face difficult quarterly sales [...]
about 1 day ago - 1 comment
The Wall Street Journal says that weddings are much more expensive than people think, stating the following:
Your $18,000 wedding? It may really end up costing you between $90,000 and $200,000.
That’s because the biggest cost of every dollar you spend is invisible. It’s all the money you’d accumulate if you saved it instead. Over long [...]
Financial Highway has been around for 10 months now and has seen a very decent growth rate over this time period. We were featured several times in the Globe and Mail this year and a few mentions in other mainstream media such as Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, CNN, The Daily Crux, MSN and The Consumerist.
about 1 month ago
You're not foolish. $6000 is a reasonable amount to get going with for sure. TD does hammer you. Been there, done that! Have you tried optionsxpress.ca ? They don't just do options. Their rates are great ($14.95 per trade and work on a sliding scale). Check out
The only problem with them is that they won't allow you to buy Canadian stocks (?!?) Go figure. Anyway, another one to look at is Questrade.com they charge from $9.95 per trade on Canadian and US stock. Their setup is quite confusing though. They are apparently quite good, but I found it too complicated, so went to Optionsxpress, but may go back to Questrade for my Canadian trades. Hope that helps!!
about 1 month ago
There is no way to know without knowing how liquid the stock is.
If you put in a market order and the stock is not liquid it could easily raise the price to 5 of 10 cents per share to fill your order, only to drop back down to roughly 1 cent again after your order is filled.
If you put in a limit order it will not raise the price above the limit you specified, but you might not get your entire order filled.
If the stock is liquid it likely will have no impact on the stock price.