I need help with these 2 financial questions?

If the margin is 60%, then even though the stock cost $30 he only paid $22 for it - so paid $22 - sold it for $50, so he made 5000 - 2200 = 2800$ You don't say how long he held it for, ...

ME (Mariner Energy) VLO (Valero Energy Corp.) PTR (Petro China) ATPG (ATP Oil and Gas) WB (Wachovia Bancorp)

Stocks arte very tricky, They all have the up and down days, one the stock might be through the roof the next it will be in the gutter, it varies day by day.

Come on...you've gotta do your own homework. EPS is simply NI/shares out and PE is price/eps. Divide the amount needed to be raised by the estimated price and add the 60,000 divided by ...

A Roth IRA is a tax protection mechinism. Under the guidelines of the Roth IRA you can buy any investment. Because a Roth IRA usually is set up to pay out tax free at retirement, its a good ide...

No What makes you think you would get one share of JPM for every share of BS? You would get $2 per share -- or perhaps one share of JPM for every 20 shares of BS. This would be a phenominall...

If you want to gamble, go ahead and put in what you can afford to lose. In my opinion, it seems like a scam for a few people to make a lot of money.....you are too late with the stock losing 43% to...

The Fed loans to major banks. The banks in turn loan to companies, smaller banks, and people. The reason that stocks usually rise with interest rates cuts is two fold: 1) If loans are have lower...