11/29/10 microsoft and the stock market

Objectives for today
1. prepare to present your company .
2. update your company's power point by adding currently trading at slide
slide should tell how much money you have made or lost on it since you purchased the stock.
find a current headline that may explain the movement
3. Read http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Microsoft-in-talks-for-new-TV-rb-1155559107.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=7&asset=&ccode= comment on msfts rumored innovation.

stock market

Join the stock market game. This contest will run until the end of the semester. The goal is to learn how the market works and to better understand the concepts of supply and demand.Click on the link below. Use your ridley password and create a username that includes your first and last name.
Join my free Stock Market Contest!
After joining the contest the questions on the below link are the key concepts and terms that you need to know to be successful in this unit. They will all be fair game for the unit test on the market.
http://www.howthemarketworks.com/education/stock-questions.php
Power point project
Pick one company.
You must create a power point for that company.
The goal of the power point is to inform the class on the following things:

What is the company?
What does it do? Use the company’s profile on yahoo finance as the source. ( Research and learn. Don’t tell us what you think they do)
What other companies and or products do they own / produce?
What is the stock's currently price? ( time / date/ price)
Find a current headline( from yahoo finance) that explains something that is going on with the company. Briefly explain it.
How has the company’s stock been doing over the last 52 weeks?
Cut and paste pictures/ charts/ graphs onto the power point. Not a lot of words are needed. Your explanation of these is the important thing.
Do power point on your gmail account.

Kevin Plank- UA

1. read http://www.inc.com/magazine/20031201/howididit.html Post a response to the article. Post should have something to do with your opinions about what made Kevin Plank successful. Include your name on the post.

2. read http://www.apparelsearch.com/news/articles/shopping/2006/history_under_armour_mastermind_performance_apparel.htm.

After reading this we will discuss what happened when UA went public.

Walmart

Read the following article and post a brief blog
http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/10/27/copy/westerville-ready-for-fight-over-walmart.html?adsec=politics&sid=101