Choosing a Brokerage
Fool's School
If you'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. Consider the following as you compare brokerages. • Costs. Find out how much each contender will charge you in commissions per trade. It can vary from $7 or less to more than $100. Full Story
Didn't Know the Rules
My Dumbest Investment
I'm a new investor. Not understanding the rules hurt when I found Delta Airlines stock trading at 18 cents a share. I thought, "Wow, an easy chance at some dough." It was scheduled to come out of bankruptcy soon, and I figured that as soon as it came out, its stock would surge. So I bought 8,200 shares of the stock for around $1,500. Full Story
Name That Company
I'm a global giant, reeling in some $6 billion in sales annually. Brands in my big plastic bin include Sharpie, Paper Mate, DYMO, EXPO, Waterman, Parker, Rolodex, IRWIN Vise-Grip, Shur- Line, LENOX, BernzOmatic, Graco, Calphalon, Levolor and Goody. Based in Atlanta, I employ more than 23,000 people worldwide. Full Story
Last week's trivia answer
I was born in 1853 in Rochester, N.Y., and by 1903, I'd received patents for microscopes, binoculars and a camera shutter. I made America's first optical-quality glass, developed sunglasses for the military in World War I, and in 1971, introduced the first soft contact lenses. Today I generate more than $2 billion in revenues annually. Full Story
Microsoft in Your Medicine Cabinet
The Motley Fool Take
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is aiming to compile, protect and unify our health records in one place. You can't blame it for trying to get into this biz. After all, our health-care records are spread out over everything from various computerized records to illegible scrawls on slips of paper. Full Story
Researching Risks
Ask the Fool
Q How can I research the risks facing some companies in which I might invest? - R.M., Woodbridge, VA A Start at the horse's mouth. Publicly traded American companies are required to file annual 10-K reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Full Story
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