Are preferred stocks more or less risky than convertible preferred stock?

Or when you buy preferred stocks, for example at 25 dollars a share, does the price increase a little, and when you sell it, does it decrease a little, in other words do you affect any price (common or preferred price i mean) of the shares. If no, how...

In startup world, what is preferred way to compensate employees: Stock options or restricted stocks?

looking to buy my first stocks starting with $500. Thanks

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My US History class will soon start a game for the rest of the semester. We are simulating an investment in the stock market. We have to choose 5 stocks from 3 sectors by this Monday. From then we will b monitoring the stocks' progress until the game...

Penny stocks have a huge return when they're doing good...even just a little bit. Let me tell you some of the ones I'm buying Lehman Aggressive Bond Fund I Shares, S&P 500 Index Spider, Kati Industries, and Sirius Sattelite Radio. I did the research...

I have 80 time series of stock returns. I would like to find a website that would allow me to enter a stock's ticker, and obtain the exact dates of stock splits for this stock. For example, if I enter FON [ticker for Sprint], I expect to get the dates...

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I've been hearing a lot about penny stocks lately and would like to do my own research and see if this is something that I want to get involved with. I have read a lot of articles and blogs on what a penny stock is and how things work. I get what is...