Support is a price where traders and investors have shown a willingness to buy. Sometimes, lines are drawn from one support level to another to identify a line of support. This is sometimes called a trend line. Moving average lines are also used to identify lines for support. As long as the stock price trades above the trend line, the current trend remains intact. If price falls below the support line, then it is an indication that the trend may be 

Shares splits can be classified into Ordinary and Reverse Splits.
Ordinary splits occur when a publicly held company distributes more stock to holders of existing stock. A split, say 2-for-1, is when a company simply issues one additional share for every one outstanding. After the split, there will be two shares for every one pre-split share. If the stock was at $5 per share, after the split, each share is worth $2.5, because the company’s net assets did not increase, only the number of 

A company’s P/E ratio is computed by dividing the current market price of one share of a company’s stock by that company’s per-share earnings.
A company’s per-share earnings are simply the company’s after-tax profit divided by number of outstanding shares. For example, a company that earned $5m last year, with 10 million shares outstanding, had earnings per share of $0.5. If that company’s stock currently sells for $5/share, it has a P/E of 10.
Like other indicators, P/E is best 

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Sam Walton opened his first discount store in 1962 on the theory that large-scale budget retailers could do well in rural areas with little competition through volume buying and a well-organized distribution system. Walton’

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A pioneer of the discount brokerage concept, Schwab’

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A titan of Wall Street finance and a railroad magnate, J.P. Morgan was one of the leading industrialists of the early 20th century and a preeminent symbol of American capitalism. He began as an accountant with a New York banking firm and later became a partner in the firm Drexel, Morgan and Co., which became the main source of U.S. government financing. A railroad organizer, he arranged a deal between the two largest U.S. rail lines, the New York Central Railroad and the 

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Knight, the co-founder and CEO of Nike, has made his athletic shoe company one of the world’

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The founder of Apple Computer Corp., Jobs helped bring about the personal computer revolution. Jobs and a friend, Stephen Wozniak, built their first computer in 1976, when he was 21, putting the machine together in Jobs’

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He was appointed as a member of the Board to a full 14-year term, which expires January 31, 2020, and to a four-year term as Chairman, which expires January 31, 2010.
Before his appointment as Chairman, Dr. Bernanke was Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, from June 2005 to January 2006. Dr. Bernanke has already served the Federal Reserve System in several roles. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2002 to 2005, a 

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His surname has become one of the most widely used terms in the American business lexicon. Dow and Edward D. Jones founded the financial news service Dow Jones &