Stocks Videos

The speaker discusses the basics of an ADR, or American Depository Receipt.  He talks through the benefits and the risks including inflationary risk and exchange rate risk.

The speaker provides an introduction to ADRs, or American Depository Receipts and talks about how they can provide a safehaven in times of financial crisis.  He talks through the advantanges and disadvantages of issuing an ADR.

The speaker from Schaeffers research takes a question from a client about what a stock split means.  She covers the basics and talks through why a company would do a stock split.  The speaker also discusses the reverse stock split.

The video covers the basics of a reverse stock split, discusses why a company would perform one, and walks through a real life example.

The video discusses the basic definition of what a stock split is and provides a practical example of how a stock split works.

The speaker discusses investing in green, or renewable energy.  He believes that the financial crisis has provided a great opportunity to purchase renewable energy stocks on the cheap.  He believes they are positioned well for long term growth given the direction of the new president.  However, in the short run, investors want to stay a

Vanguards John Bogle talks about the rampant amount of speculation and the severity of the markets problems.  He has never seen anything like it before, in terms of volatility and speculation.  He attributes the high levels of volatility to the fact that the market has shifted from an investors market to a speculators market.  At the end of the day, only the investors

Mary Buffett discusses Warren Buffett's investing strategy for the long run and warns against overvaluing short term profits.  She picks a few quotes out of his books.  He states " I like for business in which I can predict how they are going to look in the next 10 to 15 years time.  Take W

News release stating that Societe General's shares were halted due to a 7.5 billion dollar loss from a fraudulent trade put on by one of the banks traders.  The rogue trader had circumvented trading security procedures and kept the trade hidden for months before it was found.  The fraud was carried out by a scheme of e

The CNN special reviews the fraud perpetrated at Societe General by a rogue trader who took enormous risks and lost over a billion dollars.  This trader circumvented control procedures to avoid having this risky trade from being found.  Unfortunately, when it was found, the trade had gone the other way and mounted up serious los