Yes I Said The News

Holder has been confirmed as the 82nd Attorney General for the United States. He is also the first African American Attorney General :-)

The founder of Habitat for Humanity,Millard Fuller died at the age of 74.

GOP (Republicans) released their list today of what they think is wasteful in the Stimulus Bill, Click here for more
FYI: Wondering what GOP stands for? Grand Old Party, born in the 1850s

Nancy Killefer withdrew her nomination for Chief Performance Officer today because of Districat of Columbia unemployment tax issues.

Former Sen. Tom Daschle has withdrew his nomination as Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Dow (+15) and S&P(+.17) is up, why Nasdaq(-2.7) is still down.

FYI:Wondering what DOW, S&P, and Nasdaq are?

Dow is the Dow Jones Industrial Average, are also known as DJI, DJIA, Dow 30, INDP. Its one of our stock market indices. Its a index that shows how certain stoack have traded.

S&P is the Standard & Poor's (S&P) and is a division in McGraw-Hill that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks and bonds

Nasdaq is the world's first electronic stock market. It facilities trading and prodiving price quotations on 5,000 of the more actively traded over-the-counter stocks.

Last but not least, wondering what is stocks and bonds?

Stocks? Imagine that you own a business. If you were to divide that business into small pieces and sell those pieces, you would essentially have issued stock. Quite simply, a share of stock is a fraction of ownership in a company. (For More)

Bonds?
"A Bond is simply an 'IOU' in which an investor agrees to loan money to a company or government in exchange for a predetermined interest rate." (For More)

1 comment:

  1. Nice blog! As part of the minority population, I can empathize just how weird it is being a minority in America. Keep it up!

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