Toronto Stock Market Crash 2008

The Toronto Stock Exchange and the Dow Jones continued their decline on Tuesday, posting triple-digit losses after the closing bell rang. Talk of interest rate cuts intensified as the losses piled up.

Despite an early morning upswing of 250 points, the S&P/TSX composite index finished at a loss of 400.88 points to sit at 9,829.55. Read more »

Stock Prices in Stock Market.
Let’s say that a new corporation is created and in its IPO it raises $20 million by selling one million shares for $20 a share. The corporation buys its equipment and hires its employees with that money. In the first year, when all the income and expenses are added up, the company makes a profit of $1 million. The board of directors of the company can decide to do a number of things with that $1 million: Read more »

Tips to Sell Shares in the Stock Market.

If you keep the restaurant going, it will probably make at least $75,000 this year — you know that from your history with the business. Therefore, you can think of the restaurant as an investment that will pay out something like $75,000 in interest every year. Read more »

­The stock market appears in the news every day. You hear about it any time it reaches a new high or a new low, and you also hear about it daily in statements like “The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 2 percent today, with advances leading declines by a margin of…”

Obviously, stocks and the stock market are important, but you may find that you know very little about them. What is a stock? What is a stock market? Why do we need a stock market? Read more »

Stock Market Investment Strategy

Investing in stocks doesn’t have to just for the market savvy. Anyone with a self directed IRA, or even just funds to open an investment account can invest in the stock market. Don’t know anything about stocks you say? Well, there is a solution for those that either don’t have the time or inclination to do lots of study. Index funds or ETFs are the vehicles of choice for these types of investors.
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Ten tips to help you get started on the right foot investing in the stock market…

Educate yourself about the market ~
Do your homework and learn all you can before you start deciding where to invest your hard-earned money. Look at the history of the stocks you’re considering and learn to read a prospectus. Read more »

The following is President Bush’s statement Saturday on the financial crisis, as released by the White House. He spoke in the Rose Garden after meeting with financial ministers from the G-7 nations:

Thank you all very much. Good morning. [Treasury] Secretary [Henry] Paulson, Secretary [of State Condoleezza] Rice and I just had a productive discussion with finance ministers of America’s partners in the G7 — Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Japan. I’m pleased to be with Prime Minister [Jean-Claude] Juncker of Luxembourg, who is the president of the Eurogroup of countries, Managing Director [Dominique] Strauss-Kahn of the International Monetary Fund, President [Robert] Zoellick of the World Bank, Chairman [Mario] Draghi of the Financial Stability Forum. Thank you all for coming. Read more »

John D. McKinnon reports on the financial crisis from Washington.

President Bush’s Rose Garden appearance Saturday morning was meant to provide a reassuring picture of stability — the world’s most powerful leader, standing alongside finance ministers of the seven old-line industrial powers, their flags flapping proudly in the autumn breeze.

But as recent financial shocks have showed, the so-called G-7 — the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the U.K. — aren’t quite the pillars of strength they once were. And as the world begins to attack the root causes of the crisis, the G-7 might not even be the real center of power. Read more »

WASHINGTON — President Bush and the world’s financial leaders staged repeated displays of unity Saturday to combat an unfolding credit crisis, hoping to calm investors whose panic has spread despite bold and accelerating government action.

While there were no concrete offers of new moves made on Saturday, Mr. Bush pledged anew that his administration was doing everything possible to halt the biggest market disruptions since the Great Depression and the finance ministers spoke in unusually somber terms about the need for action. Read more »

US stock markets have suffered their worst week on record following another torrid day of trading despite growing hopes that the government could step in to guarantee bank deposits and lending between financial institutions.

The Dow Jones fell 456.3 to 8122.2 leading to a 21pc fall over the week after the index on Thursday suffered its biggest fall since Black Monday in October 1987.

In one of the most volatile trading days in memory the Dow fell nearly 700 points after markets opened, breaking the 8,000 mark for the first time since April 2003. Read more »