Business and Investing

Posted on Thursday, 12th August 2010 by James Martin

1. The New York Times featured a compendium of back-of-the-napkin drawings and blog posts that explain the basics of intelligent investing.
2. Luck plays a huge role in how our investments perform over the time period we are invested in the markets. We may not be able to control what the market gods deign to give us but we can focus on the things under our control.
3. Rob Carrick wrote a column on what investors can learn from the way the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board manages its $130 billion portfolio.
4. Canadian Financial stuff continues to share his experience in opening a Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP) for his son.
5. Retailers are offering extended warranties on everything these days.

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Tags: Luck, Napkin Drawings
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Posted on Wednesday, 11th August 2010 by Jesse Walker

As more and more people seek to make a living, or supplement their incomes using the power of the internet, people are searching for new and innovative ways to get their message out to the enormous population of people searching the internet to find products and services. We are told that the world of internet users has soared to almost 2 billion people worldwide and that this number is growing fast. Anecdotal evidence is also that increasingly, people are searching for answers to their problems on line in the form of information products such as ebooks, DVDs, CDs and videos.

The majority of people searching the internet for information still use the big search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing.

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Tags: Amazing New, Ways
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Posted on Wednesday, 11th August 2010 by Jesse Walker

NEW YORK | Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:19am EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stock index futures fell on Tuesday, weighed by worries over weaker-than-expected import data from China and a cautious mood ahead of the Federal Reserve’s meeting on monetary policy.

Speculation has been growing that the Fed will send a clear signal it is prepared to print more money to support a faltering U.S.

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Tags: Ahead, Ahead Fed
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Posted on Tuesday, 10th August 2010 by Jesse Walker

Many people think that cost per click advertising is only done through Google, but there are many others sites and search engines that accept CPC advertising and we look at the top five pay per click advertising methods below.

Google AdWords – Many find the Google Adwords to be the leader of pay per click advertising, featuring one of the easiest systems to use across all three of the major search engines. Advertising on Google gives you maximum exposure, with well over 60% of the world’s searches heading through the search engine. If

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Tags: Click Advertising, Cpc, Top Five
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Posted on Tuesday, 10th August 2010 by James Martin

The trend of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) capturing narrower and narrower segments of the markets continues inexorably with Claymore announcing a brand-new China ETF that started trading on the TSX just the other day. The new ETF joins an already crowded space: iShares offers a competing product called the iShares China Index Fund (XCH) and for its part, BMO offers a China Equity Hedged to CAD (ZCH).

iShares China ETF (XCH)

XCH tracks the FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index that is composed of 25 Chinese blue chip shares that are listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The management fee of the fund is 0.85%. XCH in turn owns the iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 ETF (NYSE Arca: FXI).

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Tags: Tsx
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Posted on Sunday, 8th August 2010 by Jesse Walker

WASHINGTON | Sat Aug 7, 2010 12:38am EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee called on Friday for an investigation into charges that mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae pushed borrowers into a mortgage aid program so it could receive incentive payments from the U.S. government.

Spencer Bachus, the top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, asked panel chairman Barney Frank to hold a hearing to investigate allegations made in a lawsuit filed in June by former Fannie Mae consultant Caroline Herron.

The Center for Public Integrity, a government watchdog group, disclosed the lawsuit on Friday.

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Tags: House, House Lawmaker
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Posted on Saturday, 7th August 2010 by James Martin

Goldman Sachs (GS)
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Shares of Goldman Sachs Group (GS: Charts, News, Offers) jumped one percent yesterday on the news that Goldman Sachs might separate out its proprietary trading or “prop desk” as early as this month. The news was treated as a positive sign from the financial giant after a disappointing second quarter.

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Tags: Goldman Sachs, Proprietary Trading, Trading
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Posted on Friday, 6th August 2010 by Jesse Walker

The number one way to make money on the internet is through list building and relationship marketing. It requires a software service known as an unlimited automatic responder. It is called an autoresponder, for short. What it will do for you, if you follow a simple formula, is nothing less than spectacular.

An autoresponder will help you create a list of leads, and allow you to have a relationship with each one of them, on auto-pilot. It is almost like cloning yourself. You can write follow up emails for a year or more in advance, providing free value and recommending buying opportunities that you will get a percentage of, (or all of, if you are the owner of what you are selling.) You can also send live broadcasts you write that day, allowing you to communicate about current events.

On average, you can generate a dollar per list member, per month.

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Tags: Automatic Responder, Make, Unlimited Automatic, Unlimited Automatic Responder
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Posted on Thursday, 5th August 2010 by Jesse Walker

Getting massive traffic to your website may be one of the prime tasks in your marketing efforts online. We all know that traffic is the life blood of any business online. Traffic is the power. When you control the traffic, you control your business and therefore your income. This is simple isn’t it?

But the fact is many of us don’t know how to drive targeted traffic to our websites. Since traffic is the backbone of any business online, you are bound to fail if you don’t know this single element for success.

Are there any Underground Traffic Blueprints?

As you may know, blueprints are those that lay out a step by step plan to do something. Do yo

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Tags: Massive Traffic, Traffic
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Posted on Tuesday, 3rd August 2010 by James Martin

BP (BP)
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Finally, after more than one hundred days of leaking oil, there are signs that the Deepwater Horizon at the Macondo well oil spill saga is drawing to a close – at least the actual oil spill portion. Now it is time for the lawsuits, countersuits, publicity battles and government bureaucratic nonsense to begin in earnest.

For obvious reasons, the British Petroleum (BP: Charts, News, Offers) stock price has taken a walloping over the past four months. At one point the stock was selling for close to $60 per share. In the middle of June, after several failed attempts to stop the leak, the BP stock price fell to around $26 amidst rumors of possible bankruptcy of the company. C

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