Find out the right and wrong ways to buy stock in Facebook when it becomes a publicly traded company later this week.
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Stock tips spill from everywhere: on television, at parties, in the gym. Email boxes are full of pitches for can't-miss money-makers to buy right now. Even your own scouting efforts spot stocks whose solid growth seems like solid gold.
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Credit: World Economic Forum Who knows what colors the proclivities of a man like Rajat Gupta, the former McKinsey & Co. chief executive standing trial for passing stock tips to Galleon Group manager Raj Rajaratnam. The son of an Indian journalist , possessor of Harvard MBA, once a hired gun in Helsinki and a sometimes dude rancher , we're ill-equipped to argue why Gupta would favor a registered ...
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In this excerpt from a talk at the Casey Research Recovery Reality Check Summit, legendary resource speculator Rick Rule makes a strong case for careful, disciplined investing in the junior resource sector, despite the market turning truly ugly.
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Former Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (MRVL) accountant Stanley Ng was sentenced to two years’ probation for his role in an insider-trading scheme involving so-called expert networking firms.
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ONE of the most prominent businessmen in the 20th century was a man called Joseph P. Kennedy (President John F. Kennedy’s father). In the 1920s, Joe Kennedy invested in stocks and later claimed that he knew it was time to get out of the stock market when he received stock tips from a shoe-shine boy. The rampant stock speculation of the time eventually led to the 1929 stock market crash and ...
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As Facebook's stock continues its slump, now trading even lower than yesterday's low, the Internet has reached a consensus on why the IPO of the year isn't performing: Advertising. It's how Facebook makes its dollars. And, it has made a lot of dollars this way. But it's not clear Facebook's very good at it, or will get good enough at it to justify a $38 per share price. Hence the investor worry.
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