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Monday, September 7th, 2009
Cautious investors often place stop-loss orders on their account. These orders sell out your shares should they decline by the amount of pain you anticipate you are willing to endure. Stop-loss orders are supposed to make an unmanageable situation manageable. Brokers encourage this as stock fluctuations inevitably trigger sales creating more commissions and spreads.
In a market break, the sell point may be much lower than the level you specify. For example, on a surprising corporate announcement, it is common for prices to gap down by $10 or more. Your stop loss may have only been down $2, but you will be sold out at the next trade, $10 lower. Of course, you always have the opportunity to buy back in again for more commissions and increasingly wide spreads. Stop-loss orders often lead to anger and frustration as an attempt to bring order to an unmanageable situation fails for you, yet enriches your broker.
Brokerage accounts also offer you a “parking place” for your cash. These are sweep accounts: money market funds that collect dividends and the change leftover from trades. In the old days, dividend checks and change were sent to your home and you had the onerous task of depositing them in your checking account. The sweep accounts are marketed as a great convenience to you. In fact, they are a great convenience to your broker as they gather your funds within short distance of the trading desk. Again, particularly optimistic types should have the dividends sent home. Maybe there is only $1,000 at stake, but would you rather have a new couch to lie on during the bear market or would you prefer to whittle it away in commissions, spreads, and poor stock picks?
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
While the Mortgage Broker Practices Act generally prohibits taking a fee upfront, a licensee performing a loan modification may charge fees upfront for services to be provided.
Licensees that charge a fee for loan modification services in advance of the services being provided must obtain a signed fee agreement for loan modification services from the borrower. Any fees paid in advance of services provided must go into the company’s trust account prior to disbursement, or be submitted to an independent escrow or title company to be held until disbursed at the instruction of the parties consistent with the fee agreement. Licensees are prohibited from collecting fees via direct access to a borrower’s bank account or via use of the borrower’s credit card.
A loan modification normally begins with a hardship analysis which is an examination of the borrower’s current mortgage, income, expenses, and ability to repay. The hardship analysis includes meetings or conversations with the borrower(s) and a determination of the borrower’s eligibility for a modification based on the particular lender’s eligibility requirements or the eligibility requirements of a federal modification program. The hardship analysis, sometimes referred to as “Phase I services,” should take no more than five hours to complete. The usual or customary fee for a hardship analysis of an owner-occupied first lien mortgage and second lien, if applicable, is $750 or less.
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
The easiest way to think of value added by a firm is to subtract the value (cost) of what it buys from other firms from its total revenues. For example, the value added by a car manufacturer is its selling price of a car minus what it pays to the companies that make the axles, sold the paint, transported the cars to the dealers, etc.
Another way to think of value added is as what a company pays out to anyone other than its suppliers. That is the sum of: (1) compensation of its employees and (2) payments to providers of capital including interest and the components of profits or return on equity which are retained earnings and dividends.
Firms differ greatly in the in the percentage of their revenues associated with value added. A huge percentage of the revenues of grocery stores, for example, goes into paying producers of cereal, meats, frozen goods, and its other suppliers. Only a tiny percentage of the revenues of accounting firms goes to pay suppliers of office space and paper clips; most goes to employee salaries.
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
To mortgage crisis
The problem with the mortgage crisis in the U.S. continue to help because no reported deferrals of interest for the creditors nothing. The deferral moves on the other hand, the problem only to back out, replacing it right now to clarify and so the market out. The U.S. mortgage crisis will continue in the coming year to problems within the financial industry, as yet, not all the affected banks loans fully sighted, examined and re-evaluated.
Due to the good business sense the Americans are not only U.S. banks will be affected, but banks around the world.
Confidence among themselves
Because of the U.S. mortgage crisis has also had the confidence of banks worldwide, among much worse. That is understandable, because of a bank which has bad loans resold, it will be no quickly acquire new loans. This “small” confidence crisis “among themselves can cause the banks more and more and uncouple its” own soup “cook. This also applies to the lending of money among themselves. This may in turn lead to possible funding problems of other banks.
Now comes the credit crunch in the U.S.
On 12.12.2007 banks have started in the U.S. even greater losses in other loan types, not just in real estate loans, reported. This was currently student loans and some credit card defaults. If this crisis is now further expanding areas of credit, then there may be a major credit crisis in the U.S.. How to get from the U.S. mortgage crisis could recognize, this crisis is also not on the U.S. remain limited. This would, therefore, with a small time lag even Germany, Europe and other countries, as well as banks that meet.
Germany Loans
The currently existing and potential new credit problems in the U.S. could ensure that credit in Germany on the one hand are expensive and, secondly only to borrowers with good credit be awarded. If the banks to continue lending by this can lead to a lower growth of the German economy, because when companies get less fresh capital, they can also invest less. For individuals it can come so far that these loans without fully Schufa queries by the credit variants should be deleted, or only by a few service providers are awarded.
Deposit Guarantee
FundGermany has over other countries a major advantage, the Deposit Guarantee Fund. All banks in Germany are legally obliged to join the fund. By the Deposit Guarantee Fund of the Federal Association of German Banks, the balances of each customer / saver in private banks up to 30% of the relevant liable capital of the bank at the time of the last published annual report fully secured. The protection of the Deposit Protection Fund covers all “non-bank deposits”, so that the assets of individuals, businesses and public bodies. When the protected deposits are essentially visual, time and savings deposits and on behalf Savings bonds denominated.
Through this deposit protection fund are German savers facing a possible bankruptcy of a German bank much better protected than in other countries.
Conclusion:
It now remains to be seen how far the U.S. mortgage crisis to a possible worldwide credit crunch expanded, or whether the banks in cooperation with the central banks of these problems under control.
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
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