Stock market
Stock marketWhen I first started the stock game, I really didn't know what I was doing and which companies to buy. Therefore, I just pick the companies that have the best dividend and did well in the past. Also I picked the companies that I've heard of and familiar with. Then as I've become more familiar with the stock game, I realized I should go with the high-tech computer companies, since they were doing real well. Overall, I bought those companies because I thought they would do well in the future and those companies provide good dividend. Also I picked some companies that consumers will never lost interest on, such as CocaCola and Disney. The reason I chose Long's Drugs because I believe it plays an important role in people's life. Everybody buys the medical care from there, it's not a very expensive cost for the middle class, and the recent America is leading by the huge amount of middle class.
AMD, Yahoo, and AOL are the high tech companies I bought. I think they went up quite much than others. It seems like most of the companies that are related to computer or Internet went up. For example, American Online could be very well known Internet Company in the United States. Before I bought it, I look up the Internet and research for it. For the three months ended September 30 1998, total revenues rose 64% to 858 million, Net income rose from 32 million to 108 million. Result reflects increase member of subscribers. From the information I got, I predicted that this stock could gain the profits for me so I chose it.
Also from the Dow Jones Industrial Average, I can tell how economy goes in the world. It's the oldest and most widely used measures of the overall condition of the stock market; each of the four averages is price-weighted and includes a few dozen widely held stocks. There are four Dow Jones Averages: Industrial, Transportation, Utilities, and Composite. The most widely used indicator of the overall condition of the stock market, a price-weighted average of 30 actively traded blue chip NYSE stocks, primarily industrials. Also I would check Standard & Poor's 500 (S&P 500) a market-value weighted index of 500 blue-chip stocks, considered to be a benchmark of the overall stock market to see how well are those blue-chip going. From the information I got, I can easily see that that the U.S. economy is poised to reach unsustainable growth levels. The Import Prices Index for May rose a stronger than March.
Prime Lending rate also effect the stock market, it's the interest rate that commercial banks charge their most creditworthy borrowers, such as large corporations. The prime rate is a lagging indicator and it also relates to an interest rate, which can be periodically adjusted up, or down, usually in response to changes in the prime rate. When the inflation is high the prime rate goes up to cut...
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