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Home prices slid in January in most major U.S. cities, fifth consecutive monthly decline. The Standard & Poor's / Case-Shiller index released Tuesday showed that home prices fell between December and January in 16 of the 19 cities studied. The...

A senior official of the European Central Bank (ECB) said that the 17 countries using the euro probably will cross a very mild recession this year. Benedict told the Coeuré Japanese newspaper Nikkei that growth has been hampered by the slowdown in...

In theory, the value of a security (stock or bond) is measured by the discounted value of future total return that can be expected. That is to say that back calculated today , the estimated value of dividends or coupons that you receive throughout the...

The stock market is a reflection of investor behavior. Behavior influenced by emotion first and then by reason. Stock selection rational basis gives better results when the VIX is below 30 In the long term, stock prices move in a straight line with...

What you invest now? Do resguardaría in the "hypothetical" bond or security would take advantage of lower equity prices? If you are not decide who or what one nor the other, and their risk profile is too conservative, you may be overlooking another asset...

When you buy or sell options should take into account that in the short term, dividends paid by a company are deducted from the price of its shares. Suppose that Telefonica will pay a dividend on February 20 of $ 0.50 and the day closes February 19 to 20...

With the exception of some emerging countries, the global economy continues ill, and with it, stock markets fail to recover your pulse. Curious, then, that one of the few sectors that are performing well this year, is precisely that of health. In the...

The dividend discount prices, theoretically, the day you pay. Every time a company pays a dividend is an output of money from the company, and theoretically reduces the value of the company in that amount. Suppose a company has a share capital...

Industrial prices rose 0.9% in March 2011 from the previous month and increased 7.8% year on year, thus registering the highest rate since September 2008, said Monday the National Institute of Statistics ( INE). With the rebound in the third month of...

Penny stocks are stocks that typically sell in the price range between less than a dollar and two dollars. They are sold on the promise of huge potential profits. Why are prices of penny stocks so low? Generally, penny stocks are issued by...