The word "Cap" is short for Market Capitalization. Market Capitalization is simply the amount of shares a company has in their float, multiplied by their current stock price. This number is supposed to give you an idea ofa companies overall value, and size.There's small caps, mid caps, and big caps. All they're referring to, is how big and established the company is. Most people who own, and trade stocks, use mostly big caps to do so. These companies are established. They have been around for years. They... read more »
Most public listed companies are expected to release their results every 3 months. Smaller companies may just put out a press release, but more established companies use a "Conference Call". During this time the company releases their results, from the 3 previous months, via a audio presentation, telling you revenues, earnings per share, and other details.The conference call is proceeded by a press release with the basic details of how the 3 months turned out. Then it's up to the management team, to clar... read more »
The financial markets are in transition. as they change, they are hard to gauge as the players and their motivations change. Further there becomes a strange hybridizaton as a lot of the trading moves off established markets into areas not easily monitored as are stock quotes, so some of the results look different and old patterns do not easily match what we see. Writing has slowed as I pondered the results, long term, of economic retrenchment are not often clearly printed in the American press, for the... read more »
Por desgracia todos conocemos las gravísimas consecuencias de stocks altos. Por un lado el posible deterioro del material, la ocupación en el almacén, el tiempo invertido en encontrar lo que necesitamos y el consiguiente coste de almacenamiento. Cuantas veces se han planteado o hemos vistos presupuestos, o hemos hecho cálculos para aumentar almacén, ya que el que teníamos parecía insuficiente. ¿Por qué necesitamos almacén? En principio el único uso es para suavizar la demanda de producción frente al s... read more »
Cuantas veces en nuestras organizaciones vemos que tanto el material como la información no fluye, y se queda estancada en puesto de producción, en almacén, en nuestro email, en nuestros papeles, etc Las consecuencias son drásticas, originan los reconocibles mudas como espera, stock, sobreproducción, movimientos innecesarios e inútiles y reprocesos.Cuando los productos no fluyen se genera stock, se incrementa el espacio necesario, la productividad disminuirá, la calidad empeorará, las personas trabajará... read more »
Adam Cheng as Ting Hai in The Greed of ManIs there is correlation between an actor's televised appearances and dramatic drops in the Hong Kong stock market?Television actor Adam Cheng, who was the star of the Hong Kong 1992 TV series The Greed of Man, played a character named Ting Hai; a greedy stock trader who's evil schemes make the market fall while he reaps the rewards.Oddly, this actors very appearance is said to cause the Hang Seng Index, Hong Kong's equivalent to the Dow Jones, to plummet like bad... read more »
En la lista de los siete despilfarros, el muda de sobreproducción está considerado como el más grave.La obsesión por eliminar inventarios y no sobreproducir, ha provocado errores muy graves en la industria.Los ejemplos más evidentes los podemos encontrar en los lanzamientos a nivel mundial de productos electrónica de consumo, tales como móviles de última tecnología, las consolas, etc.Generalmente en el día de su lanzamiento, los stocks en horas, en los puntos de venta son insuficientes. La imagen proyect... read more »
Hoy en día que está tan de moda invertir a través de fondos en stocks, es una buena idea comprender qué es exactamente el stock. Gracias al equipo de Mint.compor realizar este gráfico. Personal Finance Software - Mint.com read more »
We have had a busy week here at Talking Points Interiors. With visits to Brighton,Columbia Road in London, the historic university town of Cambridge and the latest stock arrival from Barbara Wiggins(including her fabulous crackled leather pencil cases). I have just about enough time today to update the blog beforeI help with thepreparation for Farnham Maltingsfair tomorrow.More to come later about our Barbara Wiggins latest stock arrival which will feature in our back to school feature in the next couple... read more »
With banks crumbling globally, the fact that the Indian banks - 80 % of which are state-owned - are shackled be archaic rules, function as an oligrachy, serves only 40% of the population, and lose billions from forced political patronage seems like petty misdemeanour.New Delhi's response to crisis is well documented. But it does nothing. India alone among the major economies has done nothing meaningful to combat slowdown. So the Reserve Bank of India’s Promised review of banking in 2009 is unlikely bring... read more »
