http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/ en-us http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/news/2012-02-15/The_Motley_Fool/Choosing_a_Brokerage.html <p>If you&rsquo;re ready to invest in stocks, a brokerage account will come in handy. Opening one is not much more complicated than opening a bank account, but you should do some research first, to choose the brokerage that best serves your needs. Consider the following as you compare contenders:</p><p><a href="http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/news/2012-02-15/The_Motley_Fool/Choosing_a_Brokerage.html" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/news/2012-02-15/The_Motley_Fool/Choosing_a_Brokerage.html#comments 2012-02-15 The Motley Fool Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:51:48 +0000 132953 at http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/news/2012-02-15/The_Motley_Fool/Name_That_Companyy.html <img src="http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/sites/fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/files/images/2012-02-15/36p1.thumbnail.jpg" alt="36p1.jpg" title="36p1.jpg" class="image image-thumbnail " width="150" height="146" /><p>I trace my roots back to 1869 and a glass jar of grated horseradish. Today, based in Pittsburgh, I&rsquo;m a global food giant, focused on condiments and sauces, meals and snacks, and infants and nutrition. I rake in more than $11 billion annually and sell more than 650 million bottles of my flagship product, along with roughly two single-serve packets for each person on Earth.</p><p><a href="http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/news/2012-02-15/The_Motley_Fool/Name_That_Companyy.html" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/news/2012-02-15/The_Motley_Fool/Name_That_Companyy.html#comments 2012-02-15 The Motley Fool Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:51:49 +0000 132955 at http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/news/2012-02-15/The_Motley_Fool/Procter__Gamblein_2012.html <p>How will Procter &amp; Gamble (NYSE: PG) fare in 2012? Well, if the economy is weak, consumers may not stop shaving or brushing their teeth, but they may forgo higher-end items such as toothwhitening products and may even pass up name brands such as Crest and Tide in favor of private-label products.</p><p><a href="http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/news/2012-02-15/The_Motley_Fool/Procter__Gamblein_2012.html" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/news/2012-02-15/The_Motley_Fool/Procter__Gamblein_2012.html#comments 2012-02-15 The Motley Fool Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:51:49 +0000 132956 at http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/news/2012-02-15/The_Motley_Fool/FastForward_Fiasco.html <p>My dumbest investing move was thinking that SonicBlue, the second stock I ever bought, had better technology in its Replay- TV DVR than TiVo&rsquo;s machines. Imagine &mdash; it permitted users to easily fast-forward through commercials!</p><p><a href="http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/news/2012-02-15/The_Motley_Fool/FastForward_Fiasco.html" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/news/2012-02-15/The_Motley_Fool/FastForward_Fiasco.html#comments 2012-02-15 The Motley Fool Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:51:49 +0000 132957 at http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/news/2012-02-15/The_Motley_Fool/Last_weeks_trivia_answer.html <p>I began in 1909, making airplanes from silk and bamboo. Today, based in Bethesda, Md., I employ some 126,000 people worldwide and am a major defense contractor, specializing in aeronautics, electronic systems, information systems and space systems. I rake in about $46 billion annually and have an order backlog of $78 billion. Lindbergh and Earhart both broke records in my planes.</p><p><a href="http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/news/2012-02-15/The_Motley_Fool/Last_weeks_trivia_answer.html" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/news/2012-02-15/The_Motley_Fool/Last_weeks_trivia_answer.html#comments 2012-02-15 The Motley Fool Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:51:49 +0000 132958 at http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/news/2012-02-15/The_Motley_Fool/Too_Many_Shares.html <p>QGeneral </p> <p>Electric hasn&rsquo;t split its shares since 2000. Is that because it has too many shares outstanding already?</p><p><a href="http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/news/2012-02-15/The_Motley_Fool/Too_Many_Shares.html" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/news/2012-02-15/The_Motley_Fool/Too_Many_Shares.html#comments 2012-02-15 The Motley Fool Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:51:49 +0000 132959 at