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The Money Hacks Carnival #26 was hosted at Our Fourpence Worth. This one was dubbed “Old Money” edition with some truly cool images of old dollar bills. Here are our editor’s picks for this week:
PT presents 9 Tips For Going To One Income.
Twenties Money Magazine presents My College Sold Me Out.
Toni presents Happy with What [...]
The Money Hacks Carnival #25 was hosted at The Personal Financier. This one was dubbed “The Olympic Edition”. It focuses on the economic and financial aspects of the Olympics — a lot of interesting factoids. Here are Dorian’s favorite articles:
Money Blue Book discusses in great detail the painful topic of How To Kill Roaches [...]
The Money Hacks Carnival #24 was hosted at Greener Pastures. This “The Dog Days of Summer” editions is hosted by Lisa and her dog Pete — a 7.5 pound Yorkshire Terrier. It’s a great carnival with a lot of interesting photos of Pete. Lisa’s and Pete’s picks include:
FIRE Getters continues his quite informative “Sneaky [...]
The Money Hacks Carnival #23 was hosted at Can I Get Rich On A Salary. This “It’s Gotta Be The Shoes!” editions is a great carnival in a storytelling format. Let’s go to MJ’s picks and comment from the best personal finance guru:
How to Become a Millionaire Step Three - Save Money posted at Cash [...]
The Money Hacks Carnival #22 was hosted at Help My Cash Grow. The host, Anthoney, was very selective in this edition and only published 25 articles out of the 60 submissions. Here are the five that made the editor’s picks and comment from the host:
Value Seeker presents Stock Investment Resource: Stock Market Investing [...]
The Money Hacks Carnival #21 was hosted at This Writer’s Wallet. This “Chicago Style” editions brought back some old memories. I visited Chicago a few years and loved the place. It was a beautiful, well-planned, clean, etc. — an all-around great city. Anyway, let’s go to our editor’s picks and comment from [...]
Market capitalization is the market price of an entire company, calculated by multiplying the number of shares outstanding by the price per share. Morningstar categorizes a fund’s market capitalization by studying the size of the companies that the fund is investing in. There are three categories: large, medium, and small. In general, the largest 250 [...]
Morningstar Style Box is a visual tool created by Morningstar, a premier mutual fund data sources provider. Morningstar helps make asset allocation decision easier by categorizing mutual funds by their market capitalization and valuation to nine categories.
Large Value
Large Blend
Large Growth
Medium Value
Medium Blend
Medium Growth
Small Value
Small Blend
Small Growth
When you hear the newscaster report the “Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 400 points,” he’s referring to what we call a stock market index. There are many stock indices, and the most famous ones in the United States are:
Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) — This index consists of 30 of the largest and most widely [...]
Often, we speak of the stock market as if it’s a singular entity that exists somewhere. In fact, there are many physical stock markets, called stock exchanges. Two well-known stock exchanges in the United States are the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System (NASDAQ).
Other major [...]
