STOCK MARKET GAME

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STOCK MARKET GAME
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BYJAMES CARROLL
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Invest write The news affects the stock market in
many ways, from the price of stocks to sometimes
even the availability. Companies can release news
of their profit or losses which can change the
price of their stocks. Sometimes even natural
occurrences such as weather, earthquakes, floods
and even man made occurrences such as terrorist
attacks. The two companies I have chosen to
write about are BP Corporation and Kraft foods.
BP Corporation stock prices can raise or lower
due to supply of product which can come from
storms affecting delivery of product from their
ships sinking. Kraft foods stock prices
generally are affected by supply of raw materials
such as milk products and grain markets. Examples
of this are droughts which affect the prices and
availability of corn to feed cattle. I use my
research to track the grain markets and the
availability of natural gas.
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stock bought and sold

group no

date ticker cost shares bought sub total broker fee buy or sell 2 or 0.02 selling 0.0003 total cost
alb 2.26 100 236.00 0.0472 0.01 3,804
2/8/2008 AA 33.44 100 72.20 0.6688 0.10032 3981
2/8/2008 amt 37.46 100 9.74 0.7452 0.011178 3988
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In the beginning I did not know anything about
the stock market game, until the laptops. Now I
know what the stock market game is all about.
I also learned how to buy and sell stocks in this
game. At first I did not think that the laptops
would help me understand better but I was wrong.
My laptop has really helped me under stand the
stock market game more easily.