The stock market has generally been a good investment. It goes up and it goes down, but in the long term it goes up. Lots of people have profited from their investments in the stock market, even though sometimes people lose a lot of money if they make a particularly unwise investment. Remember that people who have large amounts of money need to invest it in something. If they just keep wads of currency in their safe, it will gradually lose value due to inflation. Money has to be well invested, just to retain its value.

Investors and money men are called financiers.

They might also be called backers, bankers, capitalists, lenders, shareholders, stockholders, and venture capitalists.

Technically, you need however much an ounce of silver costs when you go in to buy it. Coin dealers sell a "bullion coin" called the Silver Eagle that contains one ounce of sterling silver; you can buy one and say you have invested in silver.

One ounce ain't gonna get you far, folks.

In reality, serious investing in silver starts with 100 troy ounces of metal. And you're better off if you've got at least 1000 ounces of it.

You buy the stock you become an owner and you can choose to vote on decisions for the company or not but either way the company pays you dividends on their profits but a lot of people will buy from a promising company early when the stock is cheap and then sell them when they gain value.

by how much it was sold for...

A company would have to give out an Initial Public Offering or IPO in order to join a stock exchange market

Bonds are traded both in the primary market, which is the initial sale of the bonds, and in the secondary market, which is the sale of bonds subsequent to the initial sale by the issuer or underwriter.

Stock (equity) can be bought during the original first public issue by a company and by the secondary market (stock market)

SEBI stands for Securities and Exchanges Board of India. It is the governing body for all stock market related instruments in the country. No company is listed in it.

Companies are listed either in the NSE or the BSE which are the registered stock exchanges in the country

The best penny stock for 2011 is BGEM (BLUE GEM) although they distribute mostly in Florida they have a weapon that will make them richer then rich. This is TITLE of course the new all natural sports drink. Better tasting, better for you sports drink.

This company is very promising and Title is very promising too!

CONS: Attacking the Gatorade is never a good ideal. BUT someone has to come along some time and say what needs to be said screw gatorade....

Mutual funds vary in their level of risk. Mutual funds that hold treasury bonds would be considered low-risk (although they may not keep up with inflation). Mutual funds that track broad-based indices, like the S&P 500 index, are considered moderate risk, as they are entirely invested in equities, but are diversified across many sectors of the economy. Mutual funds that focus on high-growth stocks would be considered high-risk, as they are concentrated in stocks that may have volatile prices and they are typically not diversified.

The act requires publicly held companies to file annual audited financial statements (on Form 10-K) with the SEC.