Stock prices are fundamentally driven by supply and demand and what investors think a company is worth. The price goes up if a large number of people want to buy stocks. The price goes down if more people want to sell instead of buy. However, what makes people want to buy a particular stock and not another? The answer to that is not clearly known and there is no one theory that adequately ...
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Some financial experts would say that certain calculated indicators such as earnings per share and price-to-earnings ratios are important factors for a stock’s health. Note there are a lot of different mathematically calculated indicators. Company-specific factors such as management changes, accounting errors or scandals, employee layoffs, product recalls, and other issues may reflect a ...
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The beta of an asset is a bit complex to explain and also to understand. It’s also called the beta coefficient. A beta is the term used to measure the unpredictability associated with a stock or stock portfolio when compared to a relevant benchmark. It can be calculated different ways because the calculation uses different variables. It is a fairly sophisticated mathematical ...
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There is factual evidence that you can make money buying stocks but there is also factual evidence you can lose money buying stocks. It all depends on what stocks you buy, when you buy the stocks and more importantly, when you sell them. Other factors are also involved.
Perhaps one of the most important factors when you buy stocks is called your risk tolerance. This means how you will ...
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The Soviet Union, despite being one of the victors of World War II ended up having the highest human toll. In addition to the deaths of all the soldiers and military personnel, there were huge numbers of civilian deaths from various causes which might help to explain the high number of deaths.
Some historians and researchers estimate almost seven and a half million Soviet civilians ...
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At the end of the 19th century, The Empire of Japan took control of Korea and it remained a Japanese colony from 1910 to 1945. When it became clear that Japan was going to be on the losing end of World War II, Russia declared war on Japan, invaded the northern coastline of Korea, and Russian troops occupied the northern part of the country.
American troops occupied the southern ...
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Yes, North Korea really does have nuclear weapons although the exact number is not known. A US scientist who has visited North Korean nuclear facilities has estimated there are somewhere between 25-30 weapons. However a number closer to 60 has been revealed through a leaked intelligence report.
It is also widely believed that North Korea needs several more years of testing to be able ...
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Yes, the United States does have the capability to carry out a pre-emptive strike on North Korea. The question however, is will they do so? The President of the United States, Donald Trump, wants Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s leader, to think he is not afraid to use nuclear weapons. Trump and Kim Jong Un have taunted each other with dangerous threats and insults.
They are like two ...
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It’s hard to say if North Korea is exactly the same as the western media portrays it because very few journalists from the west have been allowed to visit. Even those few journalists who have visited are probably censured in what they are allowed to report. It is interesting to note that reports from western media organizations are often corroborated by defectors who risk their lives to ...
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It is possible North Korea and South Korea could someday be unified. It seems hard to believe they have been two separate nations for only about 60 years. Before the separation, they were one nation for thousands of years. They shared a heritage, language, culture, economy, and so on.
Since 1972, the two countries have met several times to discuss reunification but have obviously not ...
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