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Yes you can. Their stock is "ANF". I would say buy.
The bid price is the price that someone is willing to pay for that stock, the ask price is what someone is willing to sell that stock for. If the stock is up to $1, for example, when you buy it the lowest someone is willing to sell it for could be $1.01, and someone else may be willing to buy it at $.99.
The place you would generally buy Microsoft Stock is the NASDAQ Stock Market. Obviously you can and likely will be purchasing the stock through a brokerage.
they are hoping the wealth will rise up and they will sell it for a higher price
No but it is rumored that Amazon.com is interested and will try to buy Best Buy out if the stock price drops low enough.
Yes and no. You cannot but stock in the "New GM" (the company that just came out of bankruptcy), but you can buy stock in the company that was GM (but why would you want to?).
There are many places where a person could buy Ford Stock. A person could buy Ford Stock by visiting popular on the web sources such as the official Ford website.
A trader buys and sells, but usually for someone other than himself. If I want to buy a stock, I would get a stock broker to buy it for me. The stock broker would then be acting as a trader, while I would be acting as an investor. An investor looks for profitable investments, which is to say, things to buy, such as stocks, bonds, gold, coffee futures, etc., which will increase in value and/or generate a good rate of dividends. A trader is just concerned with buying and selling.
the way you would buy on speculation was you would play the stock market
A good time to buy United Airlines stock would be right before a big holiday such as Christmas. The stock in United Airlines will likely rise during this time and then can be sold for more after the holidays.
Open a DEMAT & and a trading account with any of the DEMAT providers and then you can buy them online. Or you can contact any investment service provider and he would buy it on your behalf.
McDonald's is a well-known, profitable company, and thus some people may want to buy McDonald's stock