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US home builders' bonds have become the biggest losers in the market for debt, with ratings below investment grade.

The debt sold by D.R. Horton Inc., KB Home and other construction companies has fallen an average 3% since May, leaving investors with losses around 1.1% for the year, including reinvested interest.

It ...read more

Channeling is one of the most reliable and accurate trading techniques that provide traders with precise entry and exit points as well as stop-losses and take-profit recommendations.

Channeling stock is a stock that moves up and down in repeated waves between two parallel lines. A lower line is called a support ...read more

Penny Stocks.

Even the name of them hints at the promise of something for nothing!

Spend a Penny - get back one, two, ten dollars!!

Penny Stocks investing is one place and time where you MUST leave your emotions at the door and become utterly 'Spock' like.

Spock like?

Yup - use pure logic! No ...read more

As investors, and we all are investors these days, it is important that we understand the idiosyncrasies of the Stock Market pricing data we use to help us in our decision making efforts. On Wall Street, investing can be a minefield for those who don't take the time to appreciate ...read more

Openwave Systems Inc. provides Communication Service Providers (CSPs), including wireless and wireline carriers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), portals, and broadband providers worldwide, with the software and services they need to build boundary-free, multi-network communications services for their subscribers.

Openwave has a very unique and valuable business in the wireless data market. ...read more

Within the last several weeks the Federal Reserve announced its long range goals for the economy and the stock market rallied.

But then, several days later, the Middle East ignited once more, sending markets sharply lower.

The Fed’s policies quite rightly inform stock valuations, because the Fed directly influences interest rates. When ...read more

One of the things that separates successful traders from the majority of market participants is that they have a detailed plan that guides them when to close trades. For them, this is essential. It is fair to say that when a lot of traders buy shares they have ...read more

You know it’s absolutely crazy. Every time you think you understand the stock market, something comes up that makes you wonder whether there is any sanity in it at all.

I mean, just take a look at the way the DOW has been behaving of late. One would be forgiven for ...read more

While picking exchange-traded funds for you global portfolio, have you ever thought; “maybe I should invest in the companies that develop and sponsor the ETFs?” If so, now is the time to take a stake in Barclays PLC the sponsor iShares which is the largest family of ETFs.

Barclays PLC ...read more

Today, computers and trading software make it so easy to access information from almost anywhere. Never before have so many people had useful tools readily available to them at their fingertips.

I believe this situation presents a problem for a lot of people, in that they try to overcomplicate matters ...read more