Has this ever happened to you? You pay all your bills and then realize you cannot pay your cell phone bill. That is the worst feeling ever. I mean, seriously, I can’t live without my cell phone. It is just as much a part of me as the hair on my head. I don’t go [...]

Intel Corporation (INTC) and Crown Holdings (CCK) could top expectations. CSX Corporation (CSX) and Mattel, Inc. (MAT) could disappoint.
This will be the first busy week for earnings season. Though the total number of reports is limited, just 68, nearly half will be from large-cap and mega-cap companies. Financials will be in particular focus. Citigroup (C), [...]

Value investors have long looked to the price-to-earnings ratio as a means to finding value stocks. However, Benjamin Graham, long considered to be the “father” of value investing, found that a low price-to-earnings ratio wasn’t enough to unearth the true undervalued companies.
Graham combined the low price-to-earnings ratios with the power of growth by using the [...]

Credit cards are one of the leading causes of consumer debt. Unfortunately, 2005 bankruptcy reform laws made it harder than ever to reduce credit card debt through bankruptcy. Fortunately, you can still find a way out of debt if you’re committed. Credit counseling can help.
If you’re drowning in debt, you have to stop using your [...]

Let’s take a look at Gaps and Fills, which are fairly well known technical indicators. A gap is exactly as it sounds, a gap between the data points of a stock’s chart. Often the Daily Chart is useful for examining gaps, because there has to be some significant buying or selling pressure that [...]

If you managed to make use of your Individual Savings Account (ISA) allowance in the last tax year, then you will be pleased to know that as of today, you have another £7,200 of potential tax free investments in which you can deposit into ISAs.
If you failed to invest anything, don’t worry, because by investing [...]

In my first article about implementing XBRL in-house, I focused on companies that had to comply with regulatory bodies, and the components they needed in order to implement XBRL successfully.
This article will focus on the second class of XBRL consumer - regulators or other organizations involved in data collection and consolidation. When we think of [...]

With money in the bank comes wealth and financial security. That means that to get there, you have to figure out how to save money - which most of us haven’t done for years as we’ve run up credit card and loan debt! Now, we’re struggling to pay off our credit cards, car loans and [...]

The Federal Perkins Loan program is designed to provide educational funding at excellent interest rates (usually the interest rate is 5% or less). Students who have “exceptional” financial needs for college funding may qualify for a Perkins Federal Loan. These loans are reserved for students whose families have the greatest demonstrated financial needs as determined [...]

Trading stock future is not as simple as trading a stock.By trading stock future we are not taking the delivery of the stock and playing on margin.Stock future position has to be settled in cash on or before the expiry of future settlement. Knowledge of the following 18 necessary things before trading stock future can [...]

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