Category Archives: Investing

The Dow Jones Industrial Average Drops Altria And Honeywell Adds Bank Of America And Chevron

I was watching CNBC and noticed a scrawl at the bottom of the television screen – Altria, Honeywell removed from DJIA, Bank of America and Chevron added The DJIA is the Dow Jones Industrial Average – a stock market index. The DJIA tracks 30 of the largest and most widely held public companies in the [...]

Learning A Little Bit More About Dividends And Bonds

It’s always amazing what I find as I read through my favorite personal finance blogs. Recently, I’ve been thinking about dividends – what they are, how they work, how they are calculated, etc. Well, I fired up my newsreader today, and my good friend JLP from All Financial Matters has an excellent article about dividends [...]

Dividend Reinvestment – Take A Look At Your Tradeking Account

I logged into my TradeKing account, where my wife and I have our Roth IRAs, and I noticed that one of the ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) that I own paid a dividend last month.  But, instead of being automatically reinvested, the dividend was simply deposited into my money market fund. In the future, I want [...]

Day 28 of 33 Days And 33 Ways To Save Money And Reduce Debt: Find Out How Bad (Or Good) Your Situation Really Is

Click here to read all of the 33 Days And 33 Ways To Save Money And Reduce Debt posts. Day 28: Find Out How Bad (Or Good) Your Situation Really Is Do you know how much you owe on your house?  Do you know how much money you have in your checking account?  How much [...]