stocks

Stocks are investments that represent a share of ownership in a publicly traded company. Investors purchase stocks in hopes that they’ll appreciate in value and/or pay dividends. In January 2009, there were almost 10,000 publicly traded companies whose shares traded on stock exchanges or over the counter.

The introduction of discount online brokers has opened up stock investing to a wider audience of people internationally. Over the long term, stocks are thought of as the most lucrative investment available to the general public – as a class having returned an average of 10% annually through the first half of the 2000s.

Because of their importance as investments, stock market commentaries have emerged on the blogosphere in a big way.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “stocks”

• in Business
  Continuing Failing Stock Means Facebook Must Boost Public Relations
  Thanks to Facebook’s sinking stock, social media wunderkin, Mark Zuckerberg, is currently feeling the pinch of public scorn.
  by speters1001 / on Aug 30, 2012
• in Business
  Early Investors Jump Ship at Groupon
  Early investors in Groupon sell up as concerns over the companies stock continue to rise.
  by cmimanagers / on Aug 20, 2012
• in Business
  Groupon Stock Slides 20% on Poor Earnings Report
  Shares in Groupon slump 20% after earnings for the last quarter were below Wall Street expectations.
  by cmimanagers / on Aug 15, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “stocks”

 

• Investors are Digesting These Healthcare Stock Earnings Insights

  
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  Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ( NASDAQ:OPTR ) had a loss and missed Wall Street’s expectations, AND came up short on beating the revenue expectation. Adjusted Earnings Per Share decreased to $-0.65 in the quarter versus EPS of $-0.23 in the year-earlier quarter. Revenue Rose 35.12% to $19.43 million from the ...
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• Earnings Volatility Drives These Stocks in a New Direction

  
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  Tangoe Inc ( NASDAQ:TNGO ) delivered a profit and beat Wall Street’s expectations, AND beat the revenue expectation. Adjusted Earnings Per Share increased 66.67% to $0.15 in the quarter versus EPS of $0.09 in the year-earlier quarter. Revenue Rose 31.36% to $44.86 million from the year-earlier quarter. Tangoe Inc ...
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• Investors Ride 5 Earnings Rollercoaster Rides

  
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  Polypore International Inc. ( NYSE:PPO ) delivered a profit and missed Wall Street’s expectations, AND came up short on beating the revenue expectation. Adjusted Earnings Per Share decreased 42.55% to $0.27 in the quarter versus EPS of $0.47 in the year-earlier quarter. Revenue Decreased 5.88% to $163.5 million ...
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• Trading Volume Spiked Following These 5 Reports

  
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  Fuel-Tech, Inc. ( NASDAQ:FTEK ) had a loss and missed Wall Street’s expectations, AND came up short on beating the revenue expectation. Adjusted Earnings Per Share decreased to $0.0 in the quarter versus EPS of $0.06 in the year-earlier quarter. Revenue Decreased 10.83% to $22.48 million from the year-earlier ...
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• Official Growth Stocks and the Threats They Hold

  
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  Beware of the well-known companies that everyone regards as “official growth stocks.” These institutional favorites generally have already experienced their best earnings growth and are too obvious once they are officially termed growth stocks. Circuit City was a pioneer in the “superstore” space; the stock ...
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• Extendicare to Split North American Operations, Cites U.S. Healthcare Reform

  
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  Extendicare Inc. (TSX: EXE) will split up its U.S. and Canadian businesses, the company announced in its first quarter 2013 results . The company’s board of directors cited contrasting regulatory environments between the two nations have “long presented challenges to the market.” “This divergence has been ...
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• NVIDIA and 4 Tech Stocks Energizing Investors After Earnings

  
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  Ubiquiti Networks Inc ( NASDAQ:UBNT ) delivered a profit and beat Wall Street’s expectations, AND beat the revenue expectation. Adjusted Earnings Per Share decreased 20% to $0.24 in the quarter versus EPS of $0.30 in the year-earlier quarter. Revenue Decreased 9.29% to $83.15 million from the year-earlier quarter. ...
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• Did These Healthcare Stocks Miss or Beat Analyst Expectations?

  
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  Progenics Pharmaceuticals Inc. ( NASDAQ:PGNX ) had a loss and missed Wall Street’s expectations, BUT beat the revenue expectation. Adjusted Earnings Per Share increased to $-0.22 in the quarter versus EPS of $-0.39 in the year-earlier quarter. Revenue Decreased 0% to $2.23 million from the year-earlier quarter. ...
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• 4 Tech Stock Winners and 1 Loser After Earnings Are Digested

  
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  Perficient Inc. ( NASDAQ:PRFT ) delivered a profit and missed Wall Street’s expectations, BUT beat the revenue expectation. Adjusted Earnings Per Share increased 10% to $0.22 in the quarter versus EPS of $0.20 in the year-earlier quarter. Revenue Rose 13.65% to $84.9 million from the year-earlier quarter. ...
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• GUN full version games

  
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  GUN Set in the untamed West of the late-1800s, GUN is a free-roaming action-adventure game that takes players to a world without laws where greed, lust and murder are rampant. As Colton White, a vengeful gunslinger, players must straddle the line between good and evil as they showdown against corrupt lawmen, a ...
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• Investors Ride 5 Earnings Rollercoaster Rides

  
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  STEC, Inc. ( NASDAQ:STEC ) had a loss and beat Wall Street’s expectations, AND beat the revenue expectation. Adjusted Earnings Per Share decreased to $-0.41 in the quarter versus EPS of $-0.17 in the year-earlier quarter. Revenue Decreased 56.37% to $22 million from the year-earlier quarter. STEC, Inc. reported ...
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• Saudi stock market regulator caps first-day price volatility

  
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  DUBAI, May 12 (Reuters) – The Saudi Capital Market Authority(CMA) announced on Sunday that stocks on the kingdom’s boursewould be limited to price swings of 10 percent on their firstday of trade. Saudi Arabia, home to the Gulf Arab region’s largest stockexchange, has been slowly amending its regulatory framework ...
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• U.S. broadcast TV ratings slide pressures ad rates at ‘upfronts’

  
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  By Lisa Richwine and Liana B. Baker (Reuters) – U.S. broadcast networks head into their biggest ad-selling season this week, competing with streaming services like Netflix, battling online players for ad dollars, and fending off hits starring zombies and duck hunters on cable. The increased competition will force ...
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• Forex Currencies Morning Update – May 12

  
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  Forex currencies morning update, Sunday, May 12, 2013. This is a morning look at forex currencies ETFs. View more at our Forex section. CurrencyShares Australian Dollar Trust (NYSE:FXA) is currently trading at $100.11. FXA’s RSI is currently at 29.81 which … Continue reading →
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• Literally Every Strategist On Wall Street Has Been Wrong About The Stock Market

  
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  The S&P 500 started last week  at 1,614 , an all-time closing high at the time. And it ended the week  at 1,633 , the current all-time closing high.   This is notable because at the beginning of the year, the most bullish strategist on Wall Street’s sell-side had a 2013 year-end target of 1,615 (See  ...
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• Qatar postpones listing of $12 bln investment company

  
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  (Adds original IPO date and background) DUBAI, May 12 (Reuters) – A planned stock market listing forDoha Global Investment Co, a $12 billion Qatari investmentcompany backed by assets from the Gulf state’s sovereign wealthfund, has been postponed, a senior bourse official said onSunday. Qatar unveiled plans to ...
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• Weekend Edition – Success Can Be Fleeting

  
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  Having been a coach the last couple of years for my son’s baseball teams, it’s been lots of fun and quite a bit of work to get them to excel (and still have fun of course). This year has been quite interesting as we have gotten off to a 6-0 start, with the team winning several close games in dramatic fashion. A ...
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• A Spiraling Market and Rising Penny Stock Opportunities

  
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  Its been a wild and wooly couple of weeks on the international stock markets. But is the recent slide grinding to a halt...or just taking a breather before tumbling some more? And more importantly, what does it mean to astute penny stock investors?Wall Street recently stumbled to its worst week of the year, and global ...
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• A Cheap Strategy to Play Microsoft

  
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  Bill Gates is super rich but his once high-flying software company has been in the doldrums since mid-2002 after falling from the $35 level. The problem with Microsoft (MSFT) has been its failure to grow both its revenues and earnings at the superlative rates the company once enjoyed.Any company the size of Microsoft, ...
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• A Call On The Price of Uranium?

  
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  Interviewer:Before we talk about the potential of uranium shortages and the steep price rise in that energy source, could you explain how you got started with this idea, and what is the philosophy behind Strathmore’s acquisition program of uranium properties?Dev Randhawa:Several years ago, Strathmore Minerals ...
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