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Investment is a word which is more familiar in corporate as well as in common man world. Investing or Investment is an idiom with numerous closely-related meanings in business administration, economics and finance, interrelated to saving or deferring utilization.

Investment is a choice of every individual who risks his/her hard earned money saved in the hope to gain maximum worth of the capital input. Gain of more to make life better and better in times ahead is what make the investment more desirable and choice able by every individual.
Rather than to save the money or store the good worth of it, the investor decide to lend that money in exchange of interests or consumer goods or for a share of profits so that it can create durable goods or high amount of money. Read more...

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     These articles offer some basic advice about investing, primarily for beginning investors.
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     • Errors in Investing
     • Using a Full-Service Broker
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     • One-Line Wisdom
     • Paying for Investment Advice
     • Researching a Company
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Category Index: Exchanges

• The American Stock Exchange

The American Stock Exchange (AMEX) lists over 700 companies and is the world's second largest auction-marketplace. Like the NYSE (the largest auction marketplace), the AMEX uses an agency auction market system which is designed to allow the public to meet the public as much as possible. In other words, a specialist helps maintain liquidity.

Regular listing requirements for the AMEX include pre-tax income of $750,000 in the latest fiscal year or 2 of most recent 3 years, a market value of public float of at least $3,000,000, a minimum price of $3, and a minimum stockholder's equity of $4,000,000.

For more information, visit their home page: http://www.amex.com

• The Chicago Board Options Exchange

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) was created by the Chicago Board of Trade in 1973. The CBOE essentially defined for the first time standard, listed stock options and established fair and orderly markets in stock option trading. As of this writing, the CBOE lists options on over 1,200 widely held stocks. In addition to stock options, the CBOE lists stock index options (e.g., the S&P 100 Index Option, abbreviated OEX), interest rate options, long-term options called LEAPS, and sector index options. Trading happens via a market-maker system. For more information, visit the home page:

http://www.cboe.com

• Exchanges - Contact Information

Here's how to contact the stock exchanges in the United States.

American Stock Exchange (AMEX), +1 212 306-1000, http://www.amex.com
NASDAQ/OTC, +1 202 728-8333/8039, http://www.nasdaq.com
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), +1 212 656-3000, http://www.nyse.com
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX), http://www.phlx.com/

If you wish to know the telephone number for a specific company that is listed on a stock exchange, call the exchange and request to be connected with their "listings" or "research" department.

Instinet is a professional stock trading system which is owned by Reuters. Institutions use the system to trade large blocks of shares with each other without using the exchanges. Commissions are slightly negotiable but generally $1 per hundred shares. Instinet also runs a crossing network of the NYSE last sale at 6pm. A "cross" is a trade in which a buyer and seller interact directly with no assistance of a market maker or specialist. These buyer-seller pairs are commonly matched up by a computer system such as Instinet.

Visit their web site: http://www.instinet.com/

• The NASDAQ

http://www.nasdaq.com

• The New York Stock Exchange

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is the largest agency auction market in the United States. Visit their home page: http://www.nyse.com

Here's the complete list of the NASDAQ fifth-letter identifiers with brief descriptions:

Symbol	Meaning
A	Class A
B	Class B
C	exempt from NASDAQ listing qualifications for limited period
D	new issue
E	delinquent in required SEC filings
F	foreign
G	First convertible bond
H	Second convertible bond (same company)
I	Third convertible bond (same company)
J	Voting
K	Nonvoting
L	misc situations, including second class units, third class warrants, or sixth class preferred stock
M	Fourth class preferred (same company)
N	Third class preferred (same company)
O	Second class preferred (same company)
P	First class preferred (same company)
Q	in bankruptcy proceedings
R	Rights
S	Shares of beneficial interest
T	with warrants or rights
U	Units
V	When issued and when distributed
W	Warrants
X	mutual fund
Y	American Depositary Receipts
Z	misc situations, including second class of warrants, fifth class preferred stock or any unit, receipt or certificate representing a limited partnership interest.

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