TV viewers may find it interesting to know why GMA-7 (PSE:GMA7) talents and stars love their home network so much. Aside from the fact that it’s where they get their bread and butter but maybe because they are also the investors and co-owner of their TV Company. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Stocks and Stock Market
A few weeks ago, we discussed how the Google’s Adwords and Adsense program is being discovered and use by politicians in the Philippines for their political campaigns. We mentioned that this kind of campaign seems allowed by the Adwords/Adsense term of use and program policy. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Adsense/Web advertising
If we will to include “interest” income from preferred or debt securities shares of stocks, it is very much possible. Actually, you could earn more than 25% by buying high dividend paying preferred or debt securities in the Stock Market. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in FOREX Trading, Fixed Income
People always feel bad when the prices of goods and services like gas, electricity, telephone and water bills, beer increases. And most often than not, they turn their anger to the companies that provide such services who, they alleged, are talking too much profit at the expense of the people’s money. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Money and Investing, Stocks and Stock Market
When looking for dividend paying stocks, it is not enough that you just look to the one that, well, pays dividend. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Money and Investing, Stocks and Stock Market
Not only is the corporate world in the Philippines learning the power of internet to launch an ad campaign, the politicians too. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Adsense/Web advertising
United States law requires foreign investors to pay 30% of tax of their income derived in the US; this includes dividend and interest income in the stock market. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Money and Investing
Preferred Stock, as many investors would describe it, is a “stock” with more of characteristics of a bond rather than of a common stock. Like common stock, it is tradable in the stock market. However, unlike common stock, it does not represent a share of ownership of the company. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Fixed Income
Paypal and bank wire transfer are both electronic ways of sending (purchasing) and receiving money to or from other foreign countries. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Internet - General, Money and Investing
Here’s another “hard-to-find” prospectus summary or description of one of the relatively actively traded preferred stocks in the Philippine Stock Market (PSE), ACPR. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Fixed Income
China government, as many would know, is active in the censorship of the mass media, including in particular, the internet access in their country. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Internet - General
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), as most of the internet users in the whole world would know, is one of the internet giants financially and in share of internet search. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Stocks and Stock Market
Chinese Stock Economy has been soaring in the recent years, so as its stock markets. Actually, China’s economy is the 3rd largest in the world in terms of GDP, first and second are US and Japan, respectively. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Stocks and Stock Market
The speed of my 1.5 Mbps skybroadband subscription is really crippling slow. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Computers and Internet, Internet - General
Preferred Shares are different from Common Shares in such a way that it doesn’t have voting rights to the company’s decision making; in short, a preferred share holder is not a part owner of the company. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Fixed Income, Stocks and Stock Market
Power transformer is used for bulk power and high voltage transmission application. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Transformers, Transmission
Foreign Exchange (FOREX) currency rates between Nations across the World fluctuate almost every second due to continues currency exchanges that take place in banks and similar institutions. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in FOREX Trading
Out of curiosity, I’ve been researching the kind of phone from China which is said to be a clone of Apple’s iphone. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Hardwares and Gadgets
Tenda W311R is a China brand wiresless broadband router. Unlike its counterpart like Linksys and D-link, Tenda is cheaper. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Hardwares and Gadgets, Internet - General
The number one enemy of a person who saves their wealth/money through savings account or time deposit is inflation. Because of inflation, money losses its purchasing power as time goes by. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Money and Investing, Other Investments
Government issued treasury bonds (T-Bonds) of developing nations or countries with emerging economies, like Brazil, India, Philippines, etc, has become attractive to some income investors due to one primary reason - it has a relatively higher yield. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Fixed Income
When it comes to the topic of maintenance free, money making machine (or, we could also call it a passive investment), the first thing that comes into our mind our time-deposits, securities investments, dividend paying stocks investments, etc. However, these investments only give a minimal amount of return, typically, less than 15% ROI per year. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Adsense/Web advertising, Domains and Web hosting
Too much of changes in FXCM Microlot trading flatform lately; brought by the FIFO ruling of the NFA. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in FOREX Trading
TD Ameritrade (or simply Ameritrade) is one of the two stock brokers (the other one is Sogotrade – my investments with Sogotrade is minimal) that I have chosen for my trading and holding of stocks in the US market. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Stocks and Stock Market
There is no question; BPItrade and Citiseconline are the two well known online stock brokers in the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE). But which one is better? Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Stocks and Stock Market
Posted in Fixed Income
It’s quite hard to find a comprehensive prospectus of stock shares in the Philippine Stock Market (PSE) particularly, for the Preferred Shares. Here’s a good description of the features for the AYALA CORPORATION PREFERRED CLASS “A” SHARES (ACPA); Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Fixed Income
I thought that the Hedging technique of the Forex traders will come to an end when the National Futures Association of the US released a new regulatory rule banning the use of hedging through the introduction of “First In, First Out (FIFO) basis”. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in FOREX Trading
Posted in Philippine Electric Power Industry
Just recently found out that most laptop shops in Metro Manila malls have been running out of stocks of sleeves for small netbook computers, particularly for my 10 inches HP mini 1109, probably due to strong demand or few stocks or both. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Personal Computers and Laptops
