The main purpose of the whole stock market setup is twofold: 1)a company lists or goes public, to get money from investors for use in expansion, settling debts, etc., and 2) for investors to get into and buy into companies easily, no matter how small their share size is.  Companies go public by... (more...)

Five days into December, I still don't feel like its almost Christmas… The weather is wet and not cold. Every morning, I sniff the air for the December chill/Siberian wind smell, but it smells like July.  The chirping sounds from migratory birds that I used to hear come December are also... (more...)