Estate planning is a task that commonly gets pushed to the back burner. Why? The reason I hear most often is not a good one because it’s based on a terrible misconception

November 17, 2009 Crude prices higher; metals mixed on session by Elaine Frei Crude oil prices were up slightly Tuesday, held back by a stronger US dollar and questions about demand growth raised by new economic data from the United States that showed both industrial production and producer prices up less than expected last month. December contracts for West Texas Intermediate crude were up 24 cents to $79.14 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while at last report December Brent crude had added 52 cents to $79.28 per barrel on the ICE Futures Europe exchange in London. Nymex December gasoline futures were 2 cents higher to $2 per gallon, while January heating oil also added 2 cents, to $2.09 per gallon, but January natural gas futures fell 8 cents to $4.91 per million British thermal units

Stock shareholders have a way to make a passive income. They are able to write options based on the stock they own. For instance, if they owned 100 shares of Google at the price of 600 dollars per share, they could write an ‘at the money’ call option contract for 1,500 dollars and one month to expiration

The best stock for someone to buy depends on what type of investor he is. The two types that will be discussed here are buy and hold investors, and people who like to trade high growth rocket stocks.

What is a penny stock? That depends on who is asked. For this article it means any stock trading at one dollar per share or less.