When to Panic
Fool's School
Many investors panic when the stock market (or sometimes just one stock) heads south. They get anxious, wondering whether they should follow the crowd and bail out. That's often the worst thing to do, though. Bad times can be good times to buy. As Warren Buffett has quipped, "Be greedy when others are fearful, but be very fearful when others are greedy. Full Story
Name That Company
Founded in 1949 and based in New Jersey, I rake in nearly $9 billion annually, serve some 585,000 clients and am one of the world's top independent computing services firms. I enable employers to outsource their payroll, tax regulation management, benefits administration, retirement plans, online recruiting, employment screening and more. Full Story
A Flake of Comfort
The Motley Fool Take
Who would have thought Cheerios could be more profitable than investment banking? While the overall market plunged 4 percent in a single day recently, General Mills (NYSE: GIS) served up a solid quarterly earnings report. But while net sales grew by 14 percent, earnings dropped by 3.6 percent. Full Story
Bad Timing
My Dumbest Investment
My dumbest investment was rolling over an IRA from one mutual fund (Kemper Technology) to another (Brandywine) just before Kemper's year-end dividend of $2 per share was declared. My first mistake was bad timing, and the second was transferring the entire amount instead of the minimum that Brandywine required. Full Story
Last week's trivia answer
Founded in 1912, I'm based in Maine, where more than 400 of my (often outdoorsy) products are manufactured. I rake in about $1.5 billion each year and process some 50,000 orders per day, shipping more than 15 million packages annually. (I've shipped more than 200,000 on a single day. Full Story
Concentration Matters
Ask the Fool
Q At what point does a portfolio have too many shares of one stock? — G.R., Mobile, Ala. A First, think in terms of total value, not number of shares. You might have 2,000 shares of one stock, worth a total of $4,000, and 100 shares of another stock, worth $7,000. Focus on the percentage of your portfolio that each stock represents. Full Story
What Is This Thing Called The Motley Fool?
Remember Shakespeare? Remember "As You Like It"? In Elizabethan days, Fools were theonly people who could get away w ith telling the truth to the King or Queen. The Motley Fool tells the truth about investing, and h opes you'll laugh all the way to the bank. Full Story
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