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Stocks set for lower open

Component Change Made to Dow Jones Global Exchanges Index
NEW YORK — Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced a component change in the Dow Jones Global Exchanges Index.

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Stocks set for lower open
U.S. stocks were poised for a weak open Monday as anxiety over corporate profits weighed on investors.

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Monday, July 12th, 2010 Uncategorized Comments Off

When the stock market falls overnight with bad news, and opens lower the morning where did the money go?

My understanding is that for every share sold there is a share bought. Someone is betting it will go up and some one is betting it will go down. Look at this scenario: Tom sells 100 shares of XYZ at $14.00 per share, Kay buys 100 shares of XYZ at $14.00, this is all on Friday afternoon before the bell. I do suppose the exchange gets a few cents for doing the trade, does any one know how much? The shares that Kay bought at $14.00 I assume had to be sold at $13.95 or so to give the exchange a profit? Is this right?
The next morning before the bell there is bad news out and overseas trading was down while we slept. The whole market opens way down. XYZ is $2.00 dollars down when the opening bell rings. Where did the $2.00 go. Kay had just bought that afternoon 100 shares for $2.00 more than what the share price opened at. Where did this $2.00 go?

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Saturday, March 13th, 2010 news 4 Comments

SHuD I WAIT FOR THE MARKET TO DROP LOWER?

OK im 20 years old and i want to get into the stock market game.my dad has done it for many years but hasnt done anything in the last 5-6years due to losses so im gonna start fresh.The thing is i follow market news and the market has gone down a whole lot..so..i want to invest around 1500-2000 dollars…my questions are…which stocks shud i invest in that are cheap,look good in future…i know i shud invest in 2 stocks not just invest the full 1500-2000 on 1 stock so what 2 stocks that are within my price range i can get a good number of shares and second question how much more should i let the stock market drop because if there is a stock worth lets say 85bucks a share right now and few weeks later it drops down to 20bucks i can pick it up there im just saying i have some stock knowledge please i want real help i tried contacing jim cramer but i will never get a response and a broker will eat up all my money so please be kind and help me just trying to help my family out of poverty

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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 news 4 Comments

[NEWS ] SHARE PRICES CLOSE LOWER ON PROFIT-TAKING

Market Commentary and Intraday News
(RTTNews) – Mixed to lower opens are expected Tuesday for the New Zealand and Australia share markets. Both markets opened the week with gains, but got a luke warm lead from Wall Street overnight.

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[NEWS ] SHARE PRICES CLOSE LOWER ON PROFIT-TAKING
According to an analyst, the Malaysian stock market is expected to continue to do well with the global economy returning to recovery mode and Malaysia having recorded a 4.5 per cent growth last year.

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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 news Comments Off

Dow Jones Index

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE: DJI, also called the DJIA, Dow 30, INDP, or informally the Dow Jones or The Dow) is one of several stock market indices, created by nineteenth-century Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow. It is an index that shows how certain stocks have traded. Dow compiled the index to gauge the performance of the industrial sector of the American stock market. It is the second-oldest U.S. market index, after the Dow Jones Transportation Average, which Dow also created. The average is computed from the stock prices of 30 of the largest and most widely held public companies in the United States. The "industrial" portion of the name is largely historical—many of the 30 modern components have little to do with traditional heavy industry. The average is price-weighted. To compensate for the effects of stock splits and other adjustments, it is currently a scaled average, not the actual average of the prices of its component stocks—the sum of the component prices is divided by a divisor, which changes whenever one of the component stocks has a stock split or stock dividend, to generate the value of the index. Since the divisor is currently less than one, the value of the index is higher than the sum of the component prices.
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