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A Quick Lesson in Ways Businesses Are Organized

admin — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:43:24 +0000

From voaspecialenglish.com | http I’m Alex Villarreal with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Businesses are structured in different ways to meet different needs. The simplest form of business is called an individual or sole proprietorship. The proprietor owns all of the property of the business and is responsible for everything. For legal purposes, with this kind of business, the owner and the company are the same. This means the proprietor gets to keep all of the profits of the business, but must also pay any debts. Another kind of business is the partnership. Two or more people go into business together. An agreement is usually needed to decide how much of the partnership each person controls. One kind of partnership is called a limited liability partnership. These have full partners and limited partners. Limited partners may not share as much in the profits, but they also have less responsibility for the business. Doctors, lawyers and accountants often form partnerships to share their risks and profits. A husband and wife can form a business partnership together. Partnerships exist only for as long as the owners remain alive. The same is true of individual proprietorships.But corporations are designed to have an unlimited lifetime. A corporation is the most complex kind of business organization.Corporations can sell stock as a way to raise money. Stock represents shares of ownership in a company. Investors who buy stock can trade their shares or keep them as …

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Stocks Open Higher Wednesday in Thin Trade; Rare Earth Mining Shares Up Again

admin — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:19:34 +0000

US stocks open firmer, but trade is light with only one major economic report. No corporate earnings are due out ahead of the New Year’s holiday. Commodities and related stocks remain active, as metals firm but oil eases a touch today from recent highs. The weekly inventory report from the Energy Department is due today. Analysts polled by Bloomberg expect stockpiles to shrink for a fourth week in a row. European averages are mostly higher as London returns from its break. Major Asian equity indexes rebounded Wednesday. Stocks of companies engaged in rare earth mining are again on the move higher this morning after gaining in Tuesday’s regular session following reports China reduced its rare earths export quotas by 11% in the first round of permits for 2011. The move could worsen a global shortage of minerals used for such products as smartphones, hybrid cars and guided missiles, according to media reports.

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Asia Stocks Mixed, Nikkei Down

admin — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 02:18:50 +0000

Hong Kong and Australian stocks were up, but China stocks fell sharply in the morning session due to severe winter storms. ZHANG: Asia stocks were mixed on Friday, as concerns eased over the financial health of top bond issuers in the US who had been hit by the subprime mortgage crisis. Japan’s Nikkei edged lower (decrease 0.7% to 13497 points) amid fears of poor US jobs data later in the day. A lower profit forecast by electronics giant Sony also weighed on the market, its shares falling over 8 percent. Analysts say a weakening US economy and a stronger yen could hurt profits of the maker of PlayStation 3 video game consoles. China stocks fell sharply in the morning session, as severe winter storms continued to cloud the economic outlook and hit transport networks across the country. PetroChina fell over four percent, dragging down the index. Elsewhere in Asia, markets rose slightly after one of the worst months on record. Recently battered Australian stocks were up 3.4 percent, as investors shopped for cheap bank and property stocks. Shares of mining firm BHP rose ahead of an anticipated new bid for peer firm Rio Tinto next week. Hong Kong’s benchmark Hang Seng index rose 2.9 percent, reacting to yesterday’s gains on Wall Street, and as investors went bargain hunting. Elsewhere in the region, Taiwan gained 2 percent, while South Korea edged up by 0.6 percent.

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Rexam (REX)

admin — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:03:00 +0000

Rexam as a maker of cans, tins or whatever kind of container you want to name, it is a good idea. After all, if you don’t want to fill your portfolio with the stock, you can always stuff yourself with spaghetti hoops.

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News Update: Compellent Tech Remains a Compelling Buy, Stock Surges

admin — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:48:20 +0000

Shares of Compellent Tech (NYSE:CML) are skyrocketing once again after Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) trumped Dell Computer (NASDAQ:DELL) in its acquisition of storage technology company 3Par (NYSE:PAR). The duel by the two PC giants over 3Par has made storage technology providers a very hot commodity. As more and more enterprises move an increasing amount of applications to the cloud, storage networking services like those provided by 3Par and Compellent are also likely to rise in demand. Compellent shares are trading nearly 12% higher at .56 in mid-afternoon trade. SmarTrend is bullish on shares of Compellent Technologies and our subscribers were alerted to buy on August 19, 2010 at .81. The stock has risen 12.3% since the alert was issued.

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Aminex (AEX)

admin — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:32:07 +0000

Aminex interestingly also operates in Africa another great theme of the last few years. So, as our second string in the Jackson Five, heres Aminex…

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coffeeheaven international Plc (COH)

admin — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:19:03 +0000

With recession on the horizon the migration of Eastern European workers to Britain has turned around and is winging its way home. Well, coffeeheaven believes that one of those habits is the purchasing of lots of very expensive coffee.

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Walker Crips (WCW)

admin — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:10:29 +0000

One of the oldest stockbrokers in town but a relative newcomer to fund management. Walker Crips has put on a fine performance in recent times.

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Premier Foods (PFD)

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:44:41 +0000

With some new investment, a new finance director and directors eating up shares Premier could be a good one for 2010. And, as a bonus, if you dont fancy the shares you can always just stuff yourself with cake.

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Goldman Sachs Dumps 44% of it’s BP Stock Weeks before Oil Rig Disaster!!!.flv

admin — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:39:26 +0000

Want Proof? HERE IT IS… moneycentral.msn.com This is a list of the institutional owners of BP stock. This is NOT private owners. There are 350 million shares of BP. Financial Institutions own roughly 40% of BP. Goldman Sachs (on March 31st) owned 6 million shares…after it sold 4.7 Million shares. WHAT DID THEY KNOW? moneycentral.msn.com