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Stocks at Year-End/New Year
Hey there, aren't you glad 2008 is over?
I certainly am. You can read my take on the market's horrible year in the story posted on SunSentinel.com/business under the headline Suffering a Market Hangover.
If you're looking for how your stock is starting off the new year, I can help. .
You can use the service on the middle of this page, left-hand side. Simpy enter your stock or mutual fund symbol or the name or even part of the name. When you get the symbol or ticker, you can get a report of the current price and a chart of its performance.
Hope it's better than last year.
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Harriet Johnson Brackey, the personal finance writer for the Sun-Sentinel, has been an award-winning business...
Comments
Honestly, if this needs to be stated in such simplistic terms, to look up your stock value - I don't think you should even be in the stock market.
I also think your column yesterday regarding when to jump back into the market was more a dis-service than anything. Sorry, but stock analysts are a joke. Of course they're still pessimistic, but they have done a great dis-service to their clients if they have not made any investment moves in the last month.
Right now I have stocks that I've purchased in the past few weeks that are up $2, $3 and more. I have one stock that I bought at $15.95 that closed today at $26.74.
All you had to do was a little extensive research here in December and you would have realized a lot of quality stocks that were driven to 52 week lows because of fund redemptions and nothing more. I don't need some idiot analyst telling me when I should buy.
Posted by: Karen - Plantation, FL | January 2, 2009 4:27 PM
Well, maybe you need to sit here in the newsroom and take the calls from people who somehow can't figure out how to look up their stocks.
I think I have a lot of distance from Wall Street analysts. I also think it's worthwhile to note what they say. The first one said almost all of his people's money is out of the market. And the second one discussed not getting back in now. So no one in my story was too Pollyana. I think we have to cope with the mess that's out there. Not just rail about it.
Posted by: Harriet Johnson Brackey | January 2, 2009 4:42 PM
Your first sentence reinforces my point. Anyone who can invest that blindly and has no clue how to even find the value of their stock from any given amount of sources.....has NO BUSINESS being in the stock market.
What exactly is "cope with the mess that's out there"? You shouldn't take advantage when the situation presents itself? The analysts you spoke with, the talking heads on CNBC sure they ramble on and on about it's a bad time to be in the stock market. They will be the same ones a year from now saying "oh, we were telling everyone back in January to start to invest".
If no one is buying, then please explain to me how the stock market is still managing to function. Please explain if no one is buying, how so many stocks have had nice gains in the last month?
I'm a small time investor, I use an online broker, it just takes a little research to make some buy/sell decisions. If I listened to all of these *experts*, I would have $20,000 less in my account in the past month. If people are happy with their money collecting dustballs from the mattress than so be it.
Posted by: Karen - Plantation, FL | January 3, 2009 8:38 AM