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Definition of Stock: a stock (also known as an equity or a share) is a portion of the ownership of a corporation. A share in a corporation gives the owner of the stock a stake in the company and its profits. If a corporation has issued 100 stocks in total, then each stock represents a 1% ownership in the company.

Definition of Bond: a debt investment in which an investor loans money to an entity (corporate or governmental) that borrows the funds for a defined period of time at a fixed interest rate. Bonds are used by companies, municipalities, states and U.S. and foreign governments to finance a variety of projects and activities. Bonds are commonly referred to as fixed-income securities and are one of the three main asset classes, along with stocks and cash equivalents.

It’s an extremely good thing that money sometimes changes hands.
Carl William Brown

One mustn’t allow acting to be like stockbroker, you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.
John Gielgud

Investments and trading activities might get you rich, but you don’t have to make many misjudgments or slipups, and what’s more you must absolutely avoid any big mistake. So, it’s not easy!
Carl William Brown

I always say that you could publish my trading rules in the newspaper and no one would follow them. The key is consistency and discipline. Almost anybody can make up a list of rules that are 80% as good as what we taught our people. What they couldn’t do is give them the confidence to stick to those rules even when things are going bad.
Richard Dennis Pless

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
Andre Malraux

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ”At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.
Claude D. Pepper

Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it’s you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.
Jim Bouton

On facebook I created a page and I called it “trading lovers” because as a matter of fact, love is nonetheless a form of trading.
Carl William Brown

If you are a good trader you can steal money from the rich legally, because it’s an extremely good thing that money sometimes must change hands.
Carl William Brown

If All the Economists Were Laid End to End, Would They Reach a Conclusion?
George Bernard Shaw

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That’s why economics is not the dismal science, it’s no science at all.
Julian Baggini

In economics, the majority is always wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
John Kenneth Galbraith

I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong.
George Soros

To learn how to be a good trader you must first learn how to become a real cynic!
Carl William Brown

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
Warren Buffett

It is very vulgar to talk about one’s business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
Oscar Wilde

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
Charles Dickens

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Bertrand Russell

Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production – only to produce a race of bed-wetters!
Barbara Ehrenreich

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.
Thomas Jefferson

You need to have enough immediate profits that you can finance the long-range growth without diluting the stock.
Paul Cook

Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.
Will Rogers

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let’s say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.
Alan Lakein

TEVA (NYSE) Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, a very good stock for traders and investors looking for a real good investment for the future. The Company is engaged in developing, producing and marketing generic medicines and a portfolio of specialty medicines. The Company operates through two segments: Generic medicines and Specialty medicines. https://www.tevapharm.com/

NIO Inc. (NYSE) designs, develops, manufactures, and sells smart electric vehicles in China. It offers five and six-seater electric SUVs, as well as smart electric sedans and power swap, a battery swapping service; full Charge in around 3 minutes while remaining in the car. Battery tested at every Swap and defective ones are removed from circulation. It took NIO four years to reach 10 million swaps. The last million took 11 Days. https://www.nio.com/

NVAX (Nasdaq). «Creating tomorrow’s vaccines today». Novavax is here to make a difference. We’re a biotech company focused on developing life-saving vaccines to fight infectious diseases. We use solid science tested by decades of research to develop vaccines. We seek and encourage meaningful partnerships and collaborations with leading biopharma organizations, research institutions, government agencies and foundations. https://www.novavax.com/

PSEC (Nasdaq). A stock with a very good monthly dividend. Prospect Capital Corporation is a leading publicly-traded Business Development Company (“BDC”). We make debt and equity investments in U.S. middle market businesses across a range of industries, and seek to deliver steady, attractive returns to our shareholders. https://www.prospectstreet.com/

Goldman Sachs BDC, Inc. (GSBD on Yahoo Finance) is a business development company specializing in middle market and mezzanine investment in private companies. It seeks to make capital appreciation through direct originations of secured debt, senior secured debt, junior secured debt, including first lien, first lien/last-out unitranche and second lien debt, unsecured debt, including mezzanine debt and, to a lesser extent, investments in equities. The fund primarily invests in United States. It seeks to invest between $10 million and $75 million in companies with EBITDA between $5 million and $75 million annually. Market Cap (intraday) 1.494B Forward Dividend & Yield 1.80 (14.11%) Ex-Dividend Date Dec 31, 2024

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd. (PFLT on Yahoo Finance) is a business development company. It seeks to make secondary direct, debt, equity, and loan investments. The fund seeks to invest through floating rate loans in private or thinly traded or small market-cap, public middle market companies. It primarily invests in the United States and to a limited extent non-U.S. companies. The fund typically invests between $2 million and $20 million. The fund also invests in equity securities, such as preferred stock, common stock, warrants or options received in connection with debt investments or through direct investments. In case of floating rate loans, it holds investments for a period of three to ten years. Market Cap (intraday) 812.76M Forward Dividend & Yield 1.23 (11.08%) Ex-Dividend Date Nov 15, 2024

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (TEVA)

Prospect Capital Corporation (PSEC)

NIO Inc. Smart electric vehicles (NIO)

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