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How To Invest In Dow Jones

How To Invest In The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index

If you can’t beat the market – follow it! This is a popular maxim, briefly describing that it’s not so easy to beat the market, but it’s really easy to follow it. As you may know, “The Market” here means the overall performance of all traded shares which is measured by stock indexes, like the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index and S&P500 index for example. So, to follow the market you simply need to invest your money in a market index. But how could you do that? How can we put some money in the Dow 30 and take advantage...

Your New Startup – How to Ensure It’s a Success

OK, so you’ve got a new business idea and are running with it. Good for you. Focus on your goal, and you can achieve whatever you want. But it’s certainly worth heeding some advice to stay afloat early on as there are so many new businesses that do the basics wrong. What happens to those startups? They fail more often than not. Carry on reading for tips to help you land on your feet but first, let’s bring you a couple of examples of very promising businesses that have greatly and unexpectedly failed just because they did it wrong. Smart...

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Red Bull History – How Dietrich Mateschitz and Chaleo Yoovidhya Started Red Bull

Red Bull has been the most popular energy drink for years and this will most probably stay intact for some time ahead. Everybody from all around the world knows about this ‘wings giving’ beverage, because of the powerful and innovative branding campaigns made by the company. A company that bet everything on just one brand and just one product, and eventually hit the big jackpot. And because its story is really cool, we decided to share it here with you. How Red Bull GmbH Was Founded Like many of the greatest companies in the world, Red Bull started really small....

Flickr - Share Your Life in Photos

What Is Flickr’s Story – How Steward Butterfield and Caterina Fake Founded Flickr.com

History The world as we know it… filled with nature’s beauty and our imagination’s view of it. The best way to share the marvelous experience of watching the local marines sail off, waving at the crowds at the port, or the beautiful new bud of your favorite in-house flower is by taking a photo of the vent or item you want to share and post it somewhere for all to see…  or just the ones you want. In the past, there have been many places where one can do this – PhotoBucket, MySpace, or even Facebook, but there is only...

The basics of markets...

How Does The Stock Market Work – For Dummies

Stock markets are one of the greatest inventions of our capitalistic world. They work so simply and at the same time, nobody can predict them. You trade financial instruments there, but at the same time, it’s more of a social ecosystem than you can imagine. Its moves are driven by almost anything that happens to our society – from economic fundamentals to emotions in our brains and future expectations. The market reflects not only the financial world but it is a barometer of our society as a whole. What Is A Stock Or A Share Before taking a look at...

What Is A Stock Market Crash? When Do Market Crashes Happen And How To Predict Them?

A stock market crash is a sharp and unexpected decline of stock market prices for a very short period of time, usually accompanied by the decline of many other assets’ prices. As a result, most of the investors and speculators in the market realize significant capital losses. The losses themselves cause panic and fear among market participants, leading many investors to sell their stocks in a hurry and lock in their losses. This phenomenon is known as “panic selling” and it causes even greater declines in prices as the number of sellers outnumbers the buyers, this deepens the contraction and...

Bebo.com

How Michael And Xochi Birch Founded BEBO – The History Of Bebo.com

You might know one of the greatest and biggest social networking sites – bebo.com, but you probably don’t know how it started and turned into the huge world community portal it is now. It has more than 120 000 000 registered users from all around the globe and they are constantly growing. This makes it the 8th biggest social network in the world in 2011 (see top 30 social networking sites). One very interesting and inspiring story… How www.bebo.com Was Started Like almost every great business, bebo.com was started with almost nothing, by an American family – Michael Birch, husband,...

High Interest Savings Accounts

High Interest Savings Account

In the economic environment today, more and more people find themselves in a tough situation, when they have to decide where to invest their savings. Many people lost a significant part of their money, after the economic crisis hit in 2008. Stock markets around the world plummeted, commodity prices dropped and a big deal of wealth was simply wiped out. And the bad news is, that this affected the average person the most. Yes, several banks and big corporations went bankrupt, but the ones who experienced the greatest financial shake were the ordinary people, working 9-5 jobs, paying taxes and...

The dogs of the Dow Strategy

What Is The Dogs Of The Dow Investment Strategy And How To Follow It?

What would you say about an average annual return of 17.7% for the last 45 years? I don’t know about you, but I would say GREAT !!! This would have been the return on your money if you invested using the Dogs Of The Dow trading strategy. It’s an absolutely great return, especially because the overall average annual yield of the Dow Jones Index was 11.8% for the very same period. Not only would you have beaten the market, but also you would have made a fortune. In the pictures below, you can see the growth of an investment of...