 | How rapidly can expanding sales reduce a firm's earnings? (view answer) |
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| What are defensive stocks? (view answer) |
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| What is a DRIP? (view answer) |
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| Does a company profit from increases in its share price? (view answer) |
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| Why did the New York Stock Exchange report prices in fractions before it switched to decimal reporting? (view answer) |
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| How do after-hours price changes affect investors? (view answer) |
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| What does it mean when someone says that a stock went up X points? (view answer) |
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| How does a pump and dump scam work? (view answer) |
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| What is a treasury stock? (view answer) |
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| Do I receive the posted dividend yield every quarter? (view answer) |
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| When must a company announce earnings? (view answer) |
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| What are the "Dogs of the Dow"? (view answer) |
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| If everyone is selling in a bear market, does your broker have to buy your shares from you? (view answer) |
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| How can a company trade more shares in one day than there are shares outstanding? (view answer) |
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| Can preferred stocks be traded like common stocks? Are their prices the same? (view answer) |
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| What are the listing requirements for the Nasdaq? (view answer) |
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| What does "buy and hold" mean? (view answer) |
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| When is earnings season? (view answer) |
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| What is an evergreen provision and how does it affect shareholders? (view answer) |
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| How do I calculate the adjusted closing price for a stock? (view answer) |
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| How can I find out which stocks also trade as options? (view answer) |
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| What is a pure play? (view answer) |
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| What are cleantech stocks? (view answer) |
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| What does a cut in interest rates mean for the stock market? (view answer) |
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| What is a penny stock? (view answer) |
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| What will happen to my stock portfolio if the greenback loses value? (view answer) |
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| What is a trailing commission? (view answer) |
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| Is there such a thing as a nano cap or micro cap index? (view answer) |
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| What is market capitulation? (view answer) |
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| Why can't I enter two sell orders on the same stock? (view answer) |
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| What does "in street name" mean, and why are securities held this way? (view answer) |
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| If a stock is delisted, do shareholders still own the stock? (view answer) |
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| Why don't stocks begin trading at the previous day's closing price? (view answer) |
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| Does a broker always have to buy a stock if I want to sell it? (view answer) |
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| How do I calculate the percentage gains or losses for my portfolio? (view answer) |
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| What is the maximum amount of stock someone can buy? (view answer) |
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| How do I calculate my gains and/or losses when I sell a stock? (view answer) |
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| What does it mean when my broker says that shares are for auction? (view answer) |
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| Why are insitutional holdings sometimes listed as higher than 100%? (view answer) |
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| Can I donate stock to charity? (view answer) |
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| What is fair capital? (view answer) |
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| Can I give stock as a gift? (view answer) |
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| How do you determine a company's percentage of credit sales? (view answer) |
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| If I have a number of stock shares and that company reports earnings of X amount per share, do I receive those earnings? (view answer) |
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| Can a stock have a negative P/E ratio? (view answer) |
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| My broker just sold securities out of my account without my permission. Is this legal? (view answer) |
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| If I own a stock in a company, do I get a say in the company's operations? (view answer) |
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| How can I be paying more than what a stock is trading for? (view answer) |
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| I lost my share certificate. Do I still own the stock? (view answer) |
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| If the stock market is so volatile, why would I want to put my money into it? (view answer) |
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| Why do share prices fall after a company has a secondary offering? (view answer) |
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| How do I find dividend-paying stocks? (view answer) |
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| What happens to the stock prices of two companies involved in an acquisition? (view answer) |
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| What are unrealized gains and losses? (view answer) |
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| What does it mean when a stock symbol has a .PK after it? (view answer) |
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| Why do some mergers and acqusitions fall through? (view answer) |
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| Why would a company make drastic cuts to its dividend payments? (view answer) |
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| What's the smallest number of shares of stock that I can buy? (view answer) |
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| Why did my stock's ticker symbol change? (view answer) |
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| What's the difference between a stop and a limit order? (view answer) |
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| How can unethical executives use options backdating to evade taxes? (view answer) |
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| What happens when a circuit breaker is put into effect? (view answer) |
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| Who or what are the turtles? (view answer) |
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| Where do investors tend to put their money in a bear market? (view answer) |
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| Is preferred stock an equity or a fixed-income security? (view answer) |
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| What is authorized stock? (view answer) |
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| Why are options very active when they are at the money? (view answer) |
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| Can a corporation deduct dividend payments to shareholders before taxes are calculated? (view answer) |
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| What does the diluted share price reveal about a company's financial strength? (view answer) |
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| If a company moves its dividend record date forward, does the ex-dividend date change too? (view answer) |
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| In M&A how does an all-stock or all-cash deal affect the equity of the buying company? (view answer) |
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| What is relative strength? (view answer) |
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| What does "squeezing the shorts" mean? (view answer) |
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| What should I use as a benchmark for my small-cap stock portfolio? (view answer) |
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| Does issuing preferred shares offer a tax advantage for corporations? (view answer) |
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| How do speculators profit from options? (view answer) |
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| How do I buy an over-the-counter stock? (view answer) |
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| What are the three phases of a completed initial public offering (IPO) transformation process? (view answer) |
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| Do noise traders have any long-term effect on stock prices? (view answer) |
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| Can an option be exercised on the expiration date? (view answer) |
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| What are the steps to get a company listed on the OTCBB? (view answer) |
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| How does the required rate of return affect the price of a stock? (view answer) |
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| Why are big foreign companies considering delisting their ADRs? (view answer) |
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| How do you tell whether an option is American or European style? (view answer) |
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| What's the difference in price volatility between dividend-paying and non-dividend-paying stocks? (view answer) |
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| Is there a difference between ADR and ADS ? (view answer) |
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| How does a stop-loss order work? (view answer) |
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| Which is the best index for studying the possible future price action of a small cap? (view answer) |
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| How do stock-for-stock mergers affect existing shareholders? (view answer) |
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| Do market participants ever deliberately drive a stock's price down? (view answer) |
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| What parties are involved in the creation of an ADR? (view answer) |
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| For the PEG ratio, how is a company's earnings growth rate determined? (view answer) |
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| What happens if I reject a tender offer for my stock in a company that goes private? (view answer) |
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| Are Canadians allowed to participate in direct purchase plans for U.S. stocks? (view answer) |
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| Why can't I buy and sell stocks in the same day? (view answer) |
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| What's the difference between a quote driven and an order driven market? (view answer) |
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| What is dilutive stock? (view answer) |
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| How does an IPO get valued? (view answer) |
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| Who gets a copy of an IPO's greensheet and why? (view answer) |
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| What is the difference between economic value added and market value added? (view answer) |
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| What does the term "stock-for-stock" mean? (view answer) |
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| What does the law say about foreign ownership of U.S. stocks? (view answer) |
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| Does a stock split lead to the gapping up/down of the stock? (view answer) |
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| What happens to my stock certificates when my stock splits? (view answer) |
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| Why do only some stocks reach astronomical share prices? (view answer) |
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| I have only $500 to invest, am I limited to buying only penny stocks? (view answer) |
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| What happens when a company buys back its shares? (view answer) |
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| Why would a company have multiple share classes, and what are super voting shares? (view answer) |
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| What's the difference between old- and new-economy stocks? (view answer) |
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| How do you analyze qualitative factors in fundamental analysis? (view answer) |
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| What's the difference between absolute P/E ratio and relative P/E ratio? (view answer) |
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| What exactly is a company's float? (view answer) |
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| Is a company allowed to reduce its dividends? (view answer) |
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| If I own stock that drops in price is this a sign that I should buy more? (view answer) |
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| Where does the money I have invested in a company go when the stock price decreases? (view answer) |
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| What is the best way to measure the total market? (view answer) |
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| Can you explain what a split-adjusted share price is? (view answer) |
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| Can a stock lose all its value? How would this affect a long or short position? (view answer) |
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| What is the double taxation of dividends? (view answer) |
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| I own options on a stock, and it's just announced a split. What happens to my options? (view answer) |
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| What is the difference between the Dow and the Nasdaq? (view answer) |
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| Why do some stock symbols have three letters while others have four? What is the difference? (view answer) |
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| Who's in charge of managing exchange traded funds? (view answer) |
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| What is the incentive to buy a stock without dividends? (view answer) |
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