Is Your Money Keeping Up With Inflation?Well, it seems that you probably can't avoid inflation, but there are definitely opportunities that you can take advantage of, in order to keep up with it. One option might be to consider depositing your money into a savings account rather than a money market account. Most major banks are currently yielding an Annual Percentage Yield (APY) that ranges from 0.5% to 0.75%. Even though this is pretty low, it is higher than what most money market accounts are currently offering. [More] | The Realities Of Market TimingWithout timing, the movements of the market may seem possible to understand. Every day, innumerable explanations of every blip are published and broadcast on television, radio, in magazines and newspapers and on the Internet. Economic and market trends often persist, and thus they seem at least slightly rational. But all that changes when you begin timing your investments. Unless you developed your timing models yourself and you understand them intimately, or unless you are the one crunching the numbers every day, you won't know how those systems actually work. [More] | Defining a Long-Term Investment in the Stock MarketThe question of when to sell a stock puts me in the mind of a quote I once read by Jacobsen – “Judgment is the one thing you cannot learn at college. You either have it or you don't have it.” The time/reason to sell a stock varies. If there comes a time when you have so much money tied up in just one stock position that it's making you feel uncomfortable, sell some of it. If the company you purchased stopped raising its dividend you may want to lighten up and/or divert the funds you were putting into that security into one that is continuing its program of increasing their dividend every year. [More] |
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TIBB - TIB Financial Corp. Announces Stock Split
Yesterday (09/27/06) TIBB - TIB Financial Corp. announced a 2 for 1 stock split payable October 24, 2006. Its shares closed today at $31.90, down $0.10 (-0.31%). This stock is not optionable and has an average daily trading volume of about 2,412 shares..
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