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Alex Berenson describes how markets move fast and companies grow, then slow as they saturate. He mentions that short sellers borrow stocks hoping prices will fall, and that central banks manage economies by changing interest rates. He also notes that big firms often aim to expand organically from within.

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Predicting the market is always tough.

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Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing.

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For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.

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Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.

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Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter.

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In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.

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Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to…

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The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.

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Investors have been too willing to buy stocks with strong reported earnings, even if they do not understand how the earnings are…

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Of course, the discounting of future earnings should hurt all stocks. But it should hurt technology stocks more than others, because so…

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It has been said that the Fed's job is to take the punch bowl away just as the party gets going, raising…

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Traditionally, companies have made major announcements before or after the close of trading so that all interested investors and analysts are apprised…

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Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business and depress corporate earnings and because…

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Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates.

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Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are two of the world's largest financial…

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Lower interest rates are usually considered good for stocks because they lower the cost of borrowing and make bonds a less attractive…

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It's one of the fundamental principles of the stock market: When interest rates go up, stocks go down. And along with financial…

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Hedge funds try to produce above-average investment returns using tactics ranging from traditional stock-picking to complex derivative and arbitrage plays. High minimum…

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The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and then…

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Fannie Mae is owned by shareholders but operates under a federal charter that exempts it from paying state or local taxes. As…

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On the New York Stock Exchange, all buy and sell orders are routed through a single 'specialist,' guaranteeing that most small trades…

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Don't expect Barton Biggs to be offering his market insights on 'Bloomberg News' anytime soon. His plumber, maybe.

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Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.

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Fannie Mae has never publicly disclosed how much money it could lose if interest rates rose 1.5 percentage points in a very…

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As they grow, companies saturate their markets, become more complex and difficult to manage, and face larger and more entrenched competitors.

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Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.

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Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.

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At the end of 2000, most investors were optimistic that a return to quick gains could not be far off.

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Big fund companies have many ways to increase the returns of young funds that they want to promote. And at least one…

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The lower spreads mean lower costs for investors, because Nasdaq investors generally do not trade directly with one another. Instead, they usually…

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Big companies, which spend tens of billions of dollars annually on 'call centers' to take orders and provide customer support, increasingly rely…

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At any moment, one company stands in the spotlight of the middle ring in the stock market's never-ending circus. It may not…

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The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and…

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Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information…

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While Wall Street firms typically underwrite offerings in teams, the lead underwriter, or manager, of the offering has primary responsibility for selling…

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Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their…

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Some companies use off-balance-sheet partnerships to raise money or to buy assets without ever telling their shareholders in their financial statements.

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Generally, a rally will have staying power, technicians say, if, in addition to price movements, it has heavy trading volume and breadth,…

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The market always, in theory at least, looks ahead. And it's always trying to take in every bit of information that it…

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Institutions like mutual funds often worry that if they disclose their plans to buy a stock, copycats will move quickly and drive…

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