Investing 2.0

HLF Herbalife Shares Spike On Carl Icahn Joke Tweet About Ice Bucket Challenge

HLF Herbalife shares spiked on a tweet joke by Carl Icahn on ice bucket challenge. You can well imagine how much fickle minded the markets are. A tweet joke caused the HLF Herbalife share spike. Forget fundamentals and technicals, anything can happen in the market. You should keep this in mind that statements of big… Continue reading HLF Herbalife Shares Spike On Carl Icahn Joke Tweet About Ice Bucket Challenge

What’s Driving Stock Prices Higher-This Bull Market Might Last Another 15 Years

Watch this video that explains what is driving these stock prices higher. Now this is a matter of opinion. This market analyst thinks that the present bull market will last for another 15 years. You can read his arguments here and decide whether you agree with him or not.

Will Janet Yellen Give A Hawkish Tone At Jackson Hole?

Today the markets are anxiously awaiting Janet Yellen’s speech on the Labor Market at FED’s Annual Symposium in Jackson Hole. Most market analysts are expecting Janet Yellen to give a hawkish tone. Will she be hawkish today? In this video, the Global Head of G10 FX Strategy at Citi talks about what Yellen will say… Continue reading Will Janet Yellen Give A Hawkish Tone At Jackson Hole?

Japan Falls Victim To The Kaynesian Economic Scam

If you have taken Econ 101 in your undergrad years, you must be very much familiar with Keynesian Economics that teaches how to increase government spending in order to raise the aggregate demand. Japan took exactly this root believing that Keynesian Economics will help increase the aggregate demand curve in Japan. See what has happened!… Continue reading Japan Falls Victim To The Kaynesian Economic Scam

GOOGL IPO Anniversary-Google Stock Has Gone Up 993% Since It’s IPO!

Ten years back, GOOGL went public.Google is a big name today. GOOGL share price has gone up by 993% since it went public. So you can well imagine if you had invested in Google IPO how much return you would have made on your stock shares by now. Google started as a search engine ten… Continue reading GOOGL IPO Anniversary-Google Stock Has Gone Up 993% Since It’s IPO!

AAPL Apple Stock Rises To Record High-Will Share Keep Going Up?

AAPL Apple stock touched $100 per share market on Tuesday. The big question is will this continue. iPhone 6 is set to release in the near future. It has new revolutionary features that are being anxiously waited by the market. Market analyst believe Apple stock AAPL is poised for a breakout on the upside and… Continue reading AAPL Apple Stock Rises To Record High-Will Share Keep Going Up?

How Many Stock Exchanges Does The World Need?

Roger Aitken, a Forbes contributor tries to answer the question how many stock exchanges and derivative exchanges there would be in the world in the coming 3 to 5 to 10 years. In US alone there are 7 parent stock exchanges. Price and choice are two important things when it comes to investing around the… Continue reading How Many Stock Exchanges Does The World Need?

Google IPO A Detailed Look!

Jay Ritter a Forbes contributor takes a comprehensive look at Google IPO 10 years later. On August 19th, 2004 ten years ago, Google went public. Google a 6 year old company was being valued at $23 Billion with price to earning ratio of 80. Google was making an annual revenue of $2.7 Billion. Today Google… Continue reading Google IPO A Detailed Look!

Random Stock Picks Will Beat S&P 500 Claims A Hedge Fund Manager!

S&P 500 is one of the leading indicators of the US Stocks. Most hedge fund managers measure their performance relative to the S&P 500 Index. Very few are able to beat it. One safe investment strategy entails investing in an ETF that follows S&P 500. However there is one hedge fund manager who is claiming… Continue reading Random Stock Picks Will Beat S&P 500 Claims A Hedge Fund Manager!