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Set Concrete Goals - One of the best ways to help you set a budge and live within your means is to set realistic, but concrete, goals for things like...

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Definition: Volatility refers to how easily a stock tends to rise and fall.  A volatile stock would be one that sees very large swings in its stock price.

TeenAnalyst Advice: Some industries are traditionally more volatile than others.  For example, technology stocks are considered to be extremely volatile.  Price swings of 5-10% in a single day aren't uncommon.

It's always a good idea to diversify your portfolio.  That way, if you have one or two volatile stocks in your portfolio, you won't have to worry about your overall portfolio having big swings.

 

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Definition of the Day Rights Issue

Rights Issue - Rights Issue is the permission of a company or corporation to existing shareholders. The current shareholders status give them access to purchase shares of stock security of an issue of the common stock before the company offers the stock securities to the public domain. The stock security...

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