Day-Traders Beware
Fool's School
Day-trading does involve buying and selling stocks — but it's not investing. Investors (at least good, Foolish ones) study businesses, carefully select stocks, and often aim to hold on for years. They consider themselves part owners of real businesses. Day-traders, meanwhile, spend hours glued to monitors, watching stock price graphs and placing orders. Full Story
Name That Company
I was founded in 1960 when two brothers bought an Ypsilanti, Mich., pizza store. One brother traded away his half of the business a year later for a Volkswagen Beetle. Today, I'm America's No. 1 pizza delivery company, with more than 5,000 stores in the U.S. and more than 3,000 abroad. I deliver 400 million pizzas per year, with my drivers covering 9 million miles weekly. Full Story
Steely Investing
The Motley Fool Take
ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT), the massive Luxembourg-based steelmaker, is buying London Mining South America Limited (London Mining Brazil) from London Mining Plc., for a total of $810 million, including assumed debt. London Mining Brazil's claims contain an estimated 1.059 billion tons of iron ore reserves. Annual production from the facilities has been running at about 1. Full Story
Placebo Pharmaceuticals
My Dumbest Investment
I once invested in a company that was developing new drugs. The news release the day its stock dropped 75 percent was almost comical. It went something like this: "(The company's) most touted drug was found to be no more effective than a placebo in clinical trials. Company withdraws product." The company was rated a five-star buy by Standard & Poor's before the drop. Full Story
Last week's trivia answer
Formed when China's Legend Holdings merged with IBM's personal computer business in 2005, I'm now one of the world's largest makers of PCs, with annual revenue topping $16 billion. (The IBM division introduced its first portable PC in 1984 — it weighed 30 pounds. Full Story
Market Capitalization
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Q: What does "market cap" refer to? Full Story
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