Web site teaches stock trading basics
Anybody interested in investing $1 million in the stock market can do so online. Investors are offered $1 million of virtual money, however, which is offered to members of the Web site www.theupdown.com.
October 1, 2007
McDonald's Stock Trading at 4-Year High
McDonald's Corp. shares rose Monday to their highest point in four years after receiving an upgrade from Wall Street one day ahead of what investors hope will be a strong February same-store sales report from the fast-food behemoth.
Investors chasing China's red-hot economic growth should heed the moral of Ninetowns' (Nasdaq: NINE - News) story. A year ago, the software company was poised to be the next great Chinese growth stock. I bought in, tantalized by the possibilities of the provider of import/export software.
CIA briefing SEC monthly on terrorists: Barron's
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is being briefed monthly by the Central Intelligence Agency about terrorists and other criminals active in global stock markets, Barron's said in its latest edition.
