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...leverage a ratio of "credit" to dollars to you. This varies from broker to broker and depends upon the size of the trade. It is usually no less than 50:1 and is typically 100:1. At a ratio of 100:1, that means for every $1,000 you invest, you're actually trading with $100,000 - that is, you are actually carrying the risk on $100,000, the difference being a loan from the broker...
...both Zandi and Skiff offer investors some sensible advice on how to make the most of the recent dollar drubbing. "I think the best way for individual investors to participate in Forex is to be sure to have a significant share of assets allocated to overseas stock and bond investments, particularly in Asia," says Zandi. "For the average investor wanting to play on the dollar falling, it would make more sense to invest in an index fund in [an overseas stock market]. Then you might get a kick from the falling dollar and the stock market of that country," says...
...ballot.” The vice president and Obama are eighth cousins. Obama, Illinois’ junior senator, addressed the audience on the hot-button issues of healthcare, education, and Iraq. He said he plans to pay teachers more money, make college more affordable, and invest to close the achievement gap in education. Though Obama never directly mentioned opponent Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.)’s name, his rhetoric echoed many of the complaints launched against her. “I’m tired of seeing Democrats think that the only way to act tough...
...keep raking in tons of cash without expanding production--even with production declining," says David Mares, an oil-politics expert at the University of California at San Diego. "He's taking advantage of the situation we consumers dropped in his lap." Mares says Chvez has to invest more in his oil industry in the future. Although it also wouldn't hurt if Americans learned to consume less...
...Knowles announced in 1999 that FAS would invest $200 million to emerging interdisciplinary sciences including nanotechnology and genomics, funds that contributed significantly to the construction of the LISE building...