Recent content by Mlbbkk

Apologies, I assumed it was criticism! I understand having to answer beginners questions such as myself's would feel like the tech support department for internet troubleshooting, "have you tried turning it on and off?" Researching this topic is very difficult, finding the right way to get...

Yes I did, Julia. If you read my question you would see I purposely mentioned I had searched google. Thank you for the straight forward answer. Just what I needed.

Bump :)

Thanks Burglar. It's still not great sense though. I already know they are stock indicies. What characteristics makes them differ? Why would anyone trade on the S&P and not the NYSE. Why is there even different stock indexes rather than having these together?

Hi, a simple question on my behalf.. Can somebody kindly introduce me on the difference between the S&P the NYSE, NASDAQ and FTSE? I googled it, couldn't find much info besides the fact that they are the American indexes. The DOW is strictly the top 30 AMERICAN stocks, right? Cheers.

Re: Value a company Cheers for the fast reply. That answers my question. Thank you:

Hello I am new to this site and this is my first post. I came across a quote "stocks that have a large percentage of ownership by top management are generally tour bedt prospects" Hmm. How can you figure out how much a company owns in shares of itself? Sorry if it's a stupid question I...