Financial Zip

Retirement is looming and you look in your bank or your portfolio and you realize that hardly anything is there. You begin to panic. Hold the phone step back. Yes, retirement especially for us these days can be a very scary proposition. When we don’t have all our ducks in […]

I bet you thought this post was going to be about happiness and sunshine well, sort of. I will just say that my outlook on things is pretty sunny this includes the current conditions on Wall Street. Everyone is saying the sky is falling. The sky is falling. It’s getting dark, but […]

If you want to trade in the financial markets you have to understand the markets that exist. Here are the 3 that are most well known: The NYSE, AMEX and the NASDAQ. These are actual physical places, except for the NASDAQ, that have traders that trade the stocks of the day.

NYSE
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People and especially investors pay attention to the stockmarket averages and indexes. On the evening news you generally hear that the Dow was up 140 points or it was down 200 points. What does that really mean, and what are these other indexes the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ? […]

It is important to understand that in the world we live in that our employers offer no long term security to ensure we have a long and prosperous retirement. It’s more like thanks for all you have done, but we have to cut costs. There goes your retirement. These days’ retirement plans have to […]