Explaining Closed-End Funds and the Dow Jones Average
The text clarifies closed-end funds as non continuously offering shares after an IPO, with shares trading on secondary markets where price reflects supply and demand. It also defines the Dow as a 30 stock index of major U.S. companies, not the entire market, listing examples like Boeing and Coca-Cola and noting historical context.
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Board games boost investing skills for kids and adults
Reading and practice aren’t the only paths to sharper minds for investing. A wide range of modern games from Zoozins to Power Grid teach counting, deduction, resource allocation, and strategic thinking through lively themes and economic scenarios, with or without luck.
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Power Grid
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Name That Company I Am A Major Media Conglomerate
Global media giant with holdings across film television publishing and digital ventures. Owns stakes in Twentieth Century Fox FOX Broadcasting Gemstar TV Guide New York Post The Weekly Standard British Sky Broadcasting HarperCollins IGN Entertainment and MySpace.com. Revenue about 24 billion annually.
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FOX Broadcasting
Gemstar TV Guide
The
New York Post
the Weekly Standard
British Sky Broadcasting Group
HarperCollins
IGN Entertainment
MySpace.com
My Smartest Investment in Telmex Stock in the 1980s
A reader recalls buying Teléfonos de México shares at 25 cents, facing family critique over poverty in Mexico, and later seeing the company known as Telmex listed on the NYSE with multiple stock splits and shares around 25 dollars. The note encourages international diversification and offers fund suggestions while inviting readers to share their dumbest investments.
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Teléfonos de México
Mexico
TelMex
New York Stock Exchange
Nate
Bal Bullard
Orland Park
Oakmark International
OAKIX
Dodge & Cox International Stock
DODFX
T. Rowe Price International Discovery
PRIDX
Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund
Wiw
Foolcom
Fool
Boeing’s 2005 Air Race Boosts Investor Interest
The Motley Fool notes Boeing’s strong 2005 orders 1,029 against Airbus 1,111 with Aeroflot seeking 22 787 Dreamliners worth over 2.5 billion while Singapore Airlines remains a buyer. Boeing’s P E around 25 tempers enthusiasm despite a notable turnaround.
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Boeing
Airbus
Aeroflot
Aeroflat
Vladimir Putin
Singapore Airlines
Southwest Airlines Story From a Fragment
Last Week's trivia answer indicates a 1970s start and growth to become the largest domestic lease carrier delivering over 70 million passengers to 61 cities in 31 states. It notes profits, annual revenue above 6 billion, average fare around 91 dollars, and employee ownership over 10 percent.
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Dallas
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Security firms eye off battlefield with airships and diversifying
Private security firms expand beyond guarding high risk sites in Iraq. Blackwater plans an airship with sensors to relay real time ground data. Triple Canopy and Olive Group shift toward advisory services and GPS tracking for client protection.
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Goodyear
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Blackwater
Triple Canopy
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Veritas Capital Fund
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Frost & Sullivan Inc
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Taylor
Afghanistan
Roger Young
Maximus Inc
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CLA
West Virginia
Lee van Arsdale
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Midwest
van Arsdale
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Christopher St. George
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