Should you buy individual stocks alongside funds
An investor weighs whether to add select stocks to a diversified mutual fund portfolio. The article notes that stock index funds often match market returns, while a small allocation to individual stocks can boost gains if a stock doubles. It suggests a balance: most should use index funds, with a few chosen stocks as a sideline.
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Mobile
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Choosing a Stock Brokerage for Your First Account
A practical guide to selecting a brokerage, covering costs, minimum deposits, usability, banking services, research, mutual funds, non stock offerings, and convenience. Compare commissions from about seven to over one hundred dollars, fees, and required deposits while checking customer service and online or phone trading options.
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Morningstar
Broker
Fool.com
Gomez.com
Penny stock cautionary tale and investor lesson
A reader recounts buying 1,000 shares of a penny stock for 1400 dollars after a magazine article linked the company to toxic site cleanup. The stock collapsed to 72 dollars when bankruptcy followed, illustrating penny stocks’ risk. The Fool cautions that price alone misleads and suggests submitting lessons for publication.
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Microsoft
Clay Brandon
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Name That Company American department store giant roots to 1830
The company bases in Cincinnati and New York operates over 450 stores in 34 states with annual sales above 15 billion. Its well known brands include Macy’s Bloomingdale’s Bur dines Macy’s and Ben-Macy’s. The Herald Square Macy’s hosted Miracle on 34th Street and its 1924 parade drew 10 000 spectators. The firm faced bankruptcy in the 1990s.
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Bloomingdale's
Ben-Macy’s
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Herald Square
Inter Parfums posts fourth straight gains but stock pricey
Inter Parfums reports 33 percent fourth quarter sales growth and 40 percent jump in net income. The company holds 59 million in cash with no long term debt and forecasts 15 percent sales and 17 percent earnings growth for 2004.
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Inter Parfum
Nichols SA
Revlon
Elizabeth Arden
Aden
Estee Lauder
Estee
Avon Products
Avon
Wall Street
Papa John’s Pizza rises as nation’s third largest chain
The founder started in 1984 and grew to nearly 3,000 restaurants in 49 states and 16 international markets plus 131 Perfect Pizza locations in the UK. It ranks No. 1 in customer satisfaction among fast-foods and features non frozen dough and sauce from vine ripened tomatoes.
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America
Pizza Hut
Domino's
United Kingdom
Papa John's Pizza
Fool
Money market yields steady as fund rates hold
The week shows seven day and 30 day average yields on money market funds at 0.51 percent unchanged from the prior week. Bankrate reports 0.46 percent APY for money market accounts and 0.25 percent for interest bearing checking. CD yields rise to 1.11 percent for one year and 2.93 percent for five years. Total money market assets drop to 2.039 trillion with retail funds down 462.2 million.
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New York
Money Fund Report
Money Funds
Bankrate.com
Investment Company Institute
Sideline business tax tips from The Gazette
The Gazette outlines common tax missteps for sideline businesses and strategies to avoid them. Key points include tracking legitimate deductions such as business phone use and mileage, maximizing retirement contributions, considering an LLC for liability and tax purposes, avoiding deducting day-job expenses, separating personal and business funds, using a dedicated business credit card, maintaining good records, using tax software, adjusting withholding, and employing children to gain deductions. Clifton Gunderson LLP provides the information.
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