Are virtual banks a good buy?

Lending out personal loans in this enviroment of housing foreclosures might not be the best thing ... Sure people can make 9% when the economy is good but if the economy really sours then you&#...

One analyst's view: December 12, 2007 Shorts Hope For Sirius (SIRI) Takedown Short seller are certainly willing to bet against the future prospects of Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI). S...

Of Course But they will want a sure thing, and ask for an arm and a leg and call on your first born.

I also calculate an IRR of 40.9% without including the 45,000 fixed costs. Remember that there is no algorythm for IRR calculation, so the value must be found by trial and error (or, much more con...

This is an interesting piece on Hedge Funds: Near the end of the Depression, a 38-year-old sociology graduate student trudged off to Akron, Ohio, to research his dissertation on industrial relat...

I'm guessing that they provide construction financing to construction companies, and also provide mortgage financing to potential buyers.

Ask your custodian to sell your stock. The custodian could be a mutual fund company such as Fidelity or Vanguard or perhaps a company such as Schwab.

To answer your questions: 1) You can make a lot of money on the stock market--the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the most commonly used listing of stocks, went from 66 in 1900 to 13,207 as of tod...