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It's hard to believe with oil approaching $100 per barrel, but the U.S. will consume over 1 billion (that's 1,000,000,000) more gallons of gasoline in 2007 than in 2006.As a certain President once said, we are energy junkies. We keep craving more regardless of the price. Ask yourself this: Are you [...]

Stocks, bonds, index funds; averages, recessions, market rallies and corrections; mutual funds, technical analysis, financial statements; commissions, taxes, and discount brokers. Just how much do you know about investing, or perhaps a better question: is there any "know" in the investment vocabulary? So many terms, ideas, and strategies; so little time and money! Here's a [...]

The most important thing you will need to decide before purchasing shares in a mutual fund is, of course, how much you wish to invest. Now, if you're just getting started in investing, you may not have a lot to invest. If this is the case, you may need to invest all of [...]

Every investor should consider Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). The younger brother of open-end index mutual funds is growing up fast and showing greater versatility. ETFs are open-end index mutual funds that trade like stocks (and closed-end mutual funds).There are three legal structures of ETFs: Open-end mutual fund (the difference between the [...]

Mutual funds are a traditional component of most investors portfolios, but exchanged traded funds, or ETFs, have been gaining popularity over the past decade as well. In recent years, more investors, brokers, and financial advisors have been using ETFs, and they have been included in many company retirement plans. The security, as well [...]