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HOW THE NEWS

IMPACTS STOCK PURCHASES

The market is influenced by a great many factors. One of which is the daily news cycle. As news hits the airwaves, investors around the world REACT quickly!

For example: The BP Oil Spill

BP Oil Spill Timeline



Do you know what is going on in the news? If the answer is no … then shame on you! ( Let’s go about fixing that problem:

Go online and find the BEST current news article you can (preferably about one of the companies you own. FYI: Yahoo’s finance page does a nice job of putting these types of news links on the quote page for your company!) Once you’ve found an article complete the following steps:

1. Print it out. (Click on the link to get an ad-free, printer-friendly copy of the article – this saves a lot of paper!)

2. Read the article, highlighting key points. This can be done by underlining or using an actual highlighter.

3. Open up Microsoft Word and type up a two paragraph, double-spaced response that includes the following:

a. What was your article about? What was the news?

b. How do you feel this news is going to impact the stock?

c. Wait 2-3 days then look up a quote for the same company. Were you right about how the news affected the stock? Provide numbers to support your answer. (The actual stock prices are sufficient).

Perhaps you will gain some insight from this! The more you know about what is going on in the world, the better job you can do finding good “buys” and good “sells”!

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