Sentences with phrase «stocks as gambling»

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Minhas says she thinks of these investments the same way she does stocks — as a gamble.

Tax cuts on wealth are promoted as if they will be invested rather than used to pay the financial sector more interest or be gambled on currencies and exchange rates, interest rates, stock and bond prices, credit default swaps and kindred derivatives.

As noted, it is a bit of a gamble, and we see it more as that than a long term dividend stocAs noted, it is a bit of a gamble, and we see it more as that than a long term dividend stocas that than a long term dividend stock.

Even though Microsoft (MSFT) started as a OTC stock, but that was over 30 years ago, remember today is different, you as an average investor should stay away from OTC stock if you can, unless you have money to burn or gamble.

If you want to gamble that big stocks will continue their hot streak well into the future, you can put the bulk of your money into an index fund that takes the beefy S&P 500 as its benchmark.

Gambling is more like short - term trading of stocks with no consideration as to whether the stock is fairly valued.

Buying stocks comes with risk and as many would tell you, buying individual stocks is pretty much a gamble.

Consequently, most of us have almost no choice but to gamble on riskier investments such as stocks, non-government bonds, or real estate, which could result in losing half our original investment or more.

As noted above, if I want to boost my stock returns, I can take a gamble that small caps will continue to outperform over the long term and buy only small cap stocks.

I am learning to like the stock market, although I was only limiting my investments to index funds for a long time, as I didn't want to take the time to research investments well enough to make investing something other than a casino gamble.

UPSHOT: Ask yourself this question — would you go to your credit union TODAY and take out a loan using your car as collateral, in order to gamble in the stock market?

Growing up in the culture where invest in stock is viewed as gambling.

If you absolutely MUST come up with a large amount of cash quickly (for such things as medical bills, a down payment on that great house deal, avoiding foreclosure, pay off gambling debts or else your kneecaps get busted, etc.), then that cash is just a few mouse clicks away when selling off dividend stocks.

Generally, preferred stocks are a much safer and predictable form of investment than common shares, but in this case it may be just as much of a gamble.

I recall my father and mother arguing at the kitchen table one morning when I was a boy as to whether stock investing is gambling or not.

That stock tip finally proves too tempting to resist, as it did for a friend's mother, and we start gambling with our retirement savings.

It is gambling if you pick a random stock because it has an interesting sounding name and bet your dollars as if you would bet a running horse.

If more people start to view buying and selling stocks online as a way to get the betting rush that previously required a trip to a casino, is there any reason to think the same negative consequences that follow gambling won't also follow investing?

That said, I would rather gamble on solid value stocks and solid dividend paying stocks than to sit out the market until the market as a whole drops down to historically «fair» valuations.

How would we all feel if we had a child who was severely disabled at birth through medical negligence or a relative who suffered a spinal injury in a road traffic accident, but to pay for lifelong needs such as housing and care we had to «gamble» the money on the stock market?

The company is being pressed by activist investor Land & Buildings Investment Management LLC to sell assets, reduce spending and put its properties into a REIT to boost the stock price, as other gambling companies have done.