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The Many Benefits of Investing in Real Estate

With so many different investment options available today, what is it that attracts so many investors and ordinary homebuyers to real estate, whether the real estate market is UP or DOWN? One of the primary reasons is that real estate investing is relatively easy to understand. Real estate investing, like any business that resells a durable good, is essentially in the business of buying low and selling high. The simplicity of this concept and the amount of wealth that can be created is what attracts so many individuals into real estate. While buying… Continue reading

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Rapidly expanding world population and climatic changes are clearly affecting the price of all foods. Wheat has more than doubled in price in the last 12 months. While much of the increase is attributed to record low yields in Australia over the last two years, we are also seeing a steep rise in demand. Pakistan has placed export restrictions on national wheat stocks due to dwindling supplies and high internal demand. Canada, once the largest exporter of wheat has reduced its crop in the last few years preferring to grow canola. Low wheat prices just… Continue reading

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Imagine for a moment that you are a small business owner. You have been running your widgets company quite successfully, employing a small staff and enjoying the profits rolling in. So why would you share these profits with literally thousands of people?

The answer is simple: in order to grow, a company needs to either go into debt, sell a part of the company in order to raise money. So you can either finance that growth by borrowing from the bank, or by issuing bonds. This is called debt financing. So while you own 100% of the company, you… Continue reading

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First of all, before you even invest in stocks, you must understand what stocks are. Think of a company as a beach: There are millions (zillions?) of sands on the beach. So all the sands make up the beach. Stocks are just like the sands of a company: When you buy stocks, you buy some of the sands!

Okay, that analogy may be one of the worst you have ever seen, but you get the idea eh? So who define the price of the stocks? That is too technical for me to explain here in details. Basically, how profitable a company… Continue reading

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Investment according to the web definition is the use of money through various vehicles, or an individual’s time and effort, to make more income or increase capital, or both.

According to Union Registrars Investment Education Series the extent of learning, awareness, information, practical skill and acquaintance shapes the course of every human endeavor and makes a huge difference between failure and success. To be able to invest properly and to have maximum benefit requires knowledge in a specific area of interest. Except you have information relevant to where you are going to, you may never get there or you… Continue reading

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Last month, the Fed took a drastic step to cut rate twice by a total of 125 basis points. And with a drop of 225 basis points since last fall, what does this say about likely stock returns? Let’s look at the historical data.

Since 1950, the Fed cut more than 200 basis points 11 times in attempts to simulate a faltering economy. Economists believe it takes six months for the rate cuts to take effect which should last for as long as three years. Therefore I examined the one- and three-year returns of the S&P 500 Index and the Fama/French… Continue reading

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